The anti-journalist : Karl Kraus and Jewish self-fashioning in fin-de-siecle Europe / / Paul Reitter

• Autore: Reitter Paul
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Disciplina: 838/.91209
• Soggetto topico: Jews - Identity - Europe - History - 19th century; Antisemitism in the press - Europe - History - 19th century; German literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism; Jewish press - Europe - History - 19th century; Jewish journalists - Europe - History - 19th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-247) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: All that is solid melts into ink -- German Jews and the writing of modern life -- Karl Kraus and the Jewish self-hatred question -- Mirror-man -- Messianic journalism? Benjamin and Scholem read Die Fackel -- Conclusion: The afterlife of anti-journalism.
• Sommario/riassunto: In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage. Kraus's spectacularly hostile critiques often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists, which brought him a reputation as the quintessential self-hating Jew. The Anti-Journalist overturns this view with unprecedented force and sophistication, showing how Kraus's criticisms form the center of a radical model of German-Jewish self-fashioning, and how that model developed in concert with Kraus's modernist journalistic styl
• Titolo autorizzato: The anti-journalist
• ISBN: 1-281-96629-0; 9786611966294; 0-226-70972-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811725603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in German-Jewish Cultural Histor