Modernity and the Text : Revisions of German Modernism.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Modernism and the Experience of Modernity, by David Bathrick and Andreas Huyssen -- Part I. The Avant-Garde: Politics and the Text -- Speaking the Other's Silence: Franz Jung's Der Fall Gross, by David Bathrick -- Carl Einstein -- or, The Postmodern Transformation of Modernism, by Jochen Schulte-Sasse -- Written Right Across Their Faces: Ernst Junger's Fascist Modernism, by Russell A. Berman -- The Loss of Reality: Gottfried Benn's Early Prose, by Peter Uwe Hohendahl -- Each One as She May: Melanctha, Tonka, Nadja, by Judith Ryan -- Part II. Modernist Cities: Paris-New York-Berlin -- Paris / Childhood: The Fragmented Body in Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, by Andreas Huyssen -- Kafka and New York: Notes on a Traveling Narrative, by Mark Anderson -- The City as Narrator: The Modern Text in Alfred Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, by Klaus R. Scherpe -- Part III. Writing and Modernist Thought -- Woman and Modernity: The [Life]Styles of Lou Andreas-Salome, by Biddy Martin -- A View Through the Red Window: Ernst Bloch's Spuren, by Klaus L. Berghahn -- Walter Benjamin's Collector: The Fate of Modern Experience, by Ackbar Abbas -- Index.

The study of Austrian and German modernist literature has a long and venerable history in this country. There have been no attempts yet, however, to reassess German and Austrian literary modernism in light of current discussion of modernity and po.

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