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Five portraits : modernity and the imagination in twentieth-century German writng
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"In Five Portraits, one of the most acute critical thinkers of our time presents essays on five of the most important writers of the past hundred years. The result is a remarkable examination of a ...
"In Five Portraits, one of the most acute critical thinkers of our time presents essays on five of the most important writers of the past hundred years. The result is a remarkable examination of a moment of cultural crisis - a time when these writers, caught between the dream of creating an abiding masterpiece and the reality of a brutal culture fascinated by apocalyptic catastrophe, deliberately put themselves and their work at the center of the storm."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Michael André Bernstein
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- Manuscripts, Theses
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2000
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- x, 150 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780810117747, 0810117746
- OCLC
- ocm45191698
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Five Portraits and the Modernist Masterpiece -- Rainer Maria Rilke: The Book of Inwardness -- Robert Musil: Precision and Soul -- Martin Heidegger: Judgment Terminal and Interminable -- Walter Benjamin: Apocalypse and Memory -- Paul Celan: Radiance That Will Not Comfort
Subjects
- Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Musil, Robert, 1880-1942 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Celan, Paul -- Criticism and interpretation.
- German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Imagination in literature.