Exotic spaces in German modernism /
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei demonstrates that the exotic, as reflected in major works of German literature and in the philosophy and art that inspires it, provokes central questions about the modern self and the spaces it inhabits.
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: The 'Exotic' and the Geographical Imagination in Modern German Literature; The Relational and Mobile Concept of the Exotic; Orientalism, German Literature, and the Geographical Imagination; 1. Fernweh, Travel, and the Re-enchantment of the World in Hofmannsthal, Dauthendey, and Hesse; Atmosphere and Exotic Spaces in Hofmannsthal's Travel Writings; Fernweh, Heimweh, and the Critique of Modernity: Die Briefe des Zurückgekehrten; Distance, the Exotic, and Bildung: The Unfinished Novel Andreas
- Vastness, the Labyrinthine, the Unreachable: Travel Writings in Northern AfricaThe Re-enchantment of the World in Dauthendey's Asia; Enchantment as Critical Distance from Modern Europe; Enchantment and Disillusionment in Dauthendey and in Hesse's Aus Indien; Conclusion; 2. Infectious-Erotic Topographies: Mann's Der Tod in Venedig and Der Zauberberg and Zweig's Der Amokläufer; Fragile Boundaries: Three Infectious-Erotic Topographies; The Infectious-Erotic in Der Tod in Venedig; Sexuality, Illness, and Colonial Aggression in Der Amokläufer; Constructions of Exotic Space in Der Zauberberg
- Conclusion3. An Intimate Elsewhere: Imagination of Distance and Vastness in Kafka; Post-Colonialist Interpretations of Travel and Exotic Spaces in Kafka; Intimacy in the Spaces of 'Elsewhere': Russia and America; The Parody of Fernweh and Immanent Vastness in Der Verschollene; Distance and Vastness: The Undetermined Spaces of Kafka's China and Russia; Conclusion; 4. Inner Depths: Exotic Topographies of Primal Consciousness in Benn, Musil, and Kubin; The Inner Topography of the Self and its Exoticization; The Influence of Nietzsche on the Exotic Rendering of Primal Consciousness
- 'Das andere Leben': Aesthetics of the Southern/Eastern Exotic and Primal Consciousness'Der andere Zustand': Mysticism and Primal States of Consciousness; 'Die andere Seite': Dream-Topography and Primal States of Consciousness; Conclusion; 5. Primitive Modernity and the Urban Jungle in Brecht; The City and its Exoticization in Modernism; Urban Aggression, Primitivism, and Racism in Brecht's Im Dickicht der Städte; Conclusion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z