The intersection of science and literature in Musil's "The man without qualities" / / Thomas Sebastian

• Autore: Sebastian Thomas
• Pubblicazione: Suffolk : , : Boydell & Brewer, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 150 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 833/.912
• Classificazione: GM 4904
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-146) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Experimental psychology: Musil's academic apprenticeship -- Figure and Gestalt -- Indeterminacy, chance, and singularity -- Multiple subjects: The construction of a hypothetical narrative -- Moosbrugger, Frauenzimmer, and the law.
• Sommario/riassunto: As the utopian projection of a world in which the conditional mood is preferred to the indicative, Robert Musil's ambitious novel 'The Man Without Qualities' is widely recognized as a great example of aesthetic modernism and a profound reflection on the 'postmodern condition.' Based on the new and more inclusive English translation by Sophie Wilkins and Burton Pike, this study provides the English-speaking reader with a well-researched commentary that situates Musil's novel in the cultural, literary, and scientific context of the early 20th century. Revealing the novel's many philosophical underpinnings, the study analyzes the intersection of theoretical reflection and aesthetic imagination essential to Musil's programmatic move beyond realism. Thomas Sebastian explores Musil's background in experimental psychology, which he studied under the pioneering psychologist Carl Stumpf, and how it and other strains of scientific thought, including that of Ernst Mach, on whose philosophical ideas Musil wrote his doctoral thesis, are reflected in his great novel. Thomas Sebastian is associate professor of German at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
• Altri titoli varianti: The Intersection of Science & Literature in Musil's 'The Man Without Qualities'
• Titolo autorizzato: The intersection of science and literature in Musil's "The man without qualities"
• ISBN: 1-281-94913-2; 9786611949136; 1-57113-655-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911008469103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)