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Modernism and Mimesis

By: Stephen D. Dowden

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This book offers a bold new view of the way in which modernist fiction, painting, music, and poetry are interlinked. Dowden shows that modernism, contrary to a longstanding view, did not turn away from mimesis. Rather, modernism operates according to a deepened understanding of what mimesis is and how it works, which in turn occasions a fresh look at other related dimensions of the modernist achievement. Modernism is neither “difficult” nor elitist. Instead, it trends toward simplicity, directness, and common culture. Dowden argues that naïveté rather than highbrow sophistication was for the modernists a key artistic principle. He demonstrates that modernism, far from glorifying subjective creativity, directs itself toward healing the split between subject and object. Mimesis closes this gap by resolving representation into play and festivity.

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Springer Nature

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3030531341

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9783030531348

Sympathy for the Abyss

A Study in the Novel of German Modernism: Kafka, Broch, Musil, and Thomas Mann

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Sympathy for the Abyss

A Study in the Novel of German Modernism: Kafka, Broch, Musil, and Thomas Mann

By: Stephen D. Dowden

The series Studien zur deutschen Literatur (Studies in German Literature) presents outstanding analyses of German-speaking literature from the early modern period to the present day. It particularly embraces comparative, cultural and historical-epistemological questions and serves as a tradition-steeped forum for innovative literary research. All submitted manuscripts undergo a double peer-review process. Please contact the editor Dr. Anja-Simone Michalski (anja-simone.michalski@degruyter.com) for further information regarding manuscript submission and subsidies.

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Walter de Gruyter

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311138473X

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9783111384733

Kafka's Castle and the Critical Imagination

By: Stephen D. Dowden

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Kafka's Castle and the Critical Imagination

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Kafka's final, unfinished novel The Castle remains one of the most celebrated yet most stubbornly uninterpretable masterpieces of modernist fiction. Consequently it has been a lightning rod for theories and methods of literary criticism. In this chronological study of its fate at the hands of academic and non-academic critics, S. D. Dowden lays emphasis on the acts of critical imagination that have shaped our image and understanding of Kafka and his novel. He explores the historical and cultural contingencies of criticism: from the Weimar Era of Max Brod and Walter Benjamin to Lionel Trilling's Cold War to the postmodern moment of multiculturalism and its turn to "cultural studies." Dowden shows how and why The Castle became a contested site in the imaginative life of each succeeding generation of criticism. In addition, he accounts for those moments at which Kafka's novel escapes, or at least attempts to escape, the gravitational pull of historically anchored understanding. Forthright in its prose, Dowden's is a book essential for anyone, casual reader or professional critic, who hopes to grasp the peculiar difficulties and challenges of Kafka's prose in general and of The Castle in particular.

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Camden House

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1571130047

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Modernism and Mimesis

Modernism and Mimesis

Sympathy for the Abyss

Sympathy for the Abyss

Kafka's Castle and the Critical Imagination

Kafka's Castle and the Critical Imagination

Modernism and Mimesis

Modernism and Mimesis

Kafka's Castle and the Critical Imagination

Kafka's Castle and the Critical Imagination

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