Permanent liminality and modernity : analysing the sacrificial carnival through novels /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Szakolczai, Árpád (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Series:	Contemporary liminality.
Subjects:	Liminality. Liminality in literature. Rites and ceremonies. Civilization, Modern. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
Before WWI : waiting for the storm
Empires and their collapse : fin-de-siècle vienna in context
Hugo von Hofmannstha l: promises and realities
Novel origins : Rilke's notebooks of Malte and Hofmannsthal's Andreas
Suspended in the in-between : Franz Kafka
Kafka's sources and insights : theatre and other modes of distorted communication
Kafka's novels : in between theatre, theology and prophecy
The Zürau notebooks : the indestructible and the way
After WWI : hypermodernity as sacrificial carnival
Thomas Mann : death in venice and magic mountain
Karen Blixen : carnival and angelic avengers
Hermann Broch : sleepwalkers
Mikhail Bulgakov : master and margarita
Heimito von Doderer : demons
Béla Hamvas : carnival
Conclusion.