High Modernism : Aestheticism and Performativity in Literature of the 1920s /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Rochester, New York :
Camden House,
2014.
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| Series: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The problematics of high modernism
- The new critics and the social function of modern literature
- Literary theory's reception of high modernism
- Aesthetic performativity in Franz Kafka's Das Schloss
- Discontinuity in Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse
- The enactment of time in Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg
- Chiasms in William Faulkner's As I lay dying
- Conclusion: The dialectic of high modernism
- Appendix: The early, high, and late phases of modernism.