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The end of Modernism : Elias Canetti's Auto-da-fé /

A study of Elias Canetti's "Auto-da-Fe (Die Blendung)", placing the work in its cultural and philosophical contexts. It situates the novel not only in relation to Canetti's body of social thought, but also within debates on Freud, misogyny, racial anti-semitism, the failure of hu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Donahue, William Collins
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Series:University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 124.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Novel(s) in the Novel; 2. "The truth is you're a woman. You live for sensations."; 3. Self-Indulgent Philosophies of the Weimar Period; 4. The Hunchback of "Heaven"; 5. "An Impudent Choir of Croaking Frogs"; 6. Neither Adorno nor Lukács; Notes; Bibliography; Index.