Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity /

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"Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity argues that the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus's work draws attention to the distinctly modern way in which experience lags behind political catastrophe"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Linden, Ari (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kraus, Karl, > 1874-1936.
Kraus, Karl, > 1874-1936 > Criticism and interpretation.
Kraus, Karl, > 1874-1936 > Political and social views.
Politics and literature.
Political and social views.
Modernism (Literature)
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Politique et litterature.
Modernisme (Litterature) > Autriche.
Modernism (Literature) > Austria.
Austria.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction. Toward a Krausian Theory of Modernity
  • Part 1. Satire and Counterdiscourse
  • Chapter 1. Reciting War: The Last Days of Mankind (1915-1922)
  • Chapter 2. On Birds, Wars, and Fragile Republics: Cloudcuckooland (1923)
  • Chapter 3. "Where Illegality Becomes the Law": Third Walpurgis Night (1933/1952)
  • Part 2. Dialogues
  • Chapter 4. "A Monstrous Nonentity": Kierkegaard, Kraus, and Benjamin
  • Chapter 5. "Origin Is the Goal": Adorno and Kraus
  • Coda. "Shadows Cast Bodies": Kraus and Posterity
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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