| Description |
xx, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Camden House companion volumes |
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Studies in German literature, linguistics and culture |
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Camden House companion volumes.
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Musil's Principal Works -- Philip Payne -- Introduction: The Symbiosis of Robert Musil's Life and Works -- Philip Payne -- Musil's Life: Experiences, Reflections, Emotions of an Intellectual -- 1: Robert Musil: Literature and Politics -- Klaus Amann -- 2: Robert Musil's Diaries: Medium between Life and Literature -- Philip Payne -- 3: Robert Musil in the Garden of Conservatism -- Galin Tihanov -- Literary Works before Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften -- 4: Die Verwirrungen des Z¿glings T¿rleß: Adolescent Sexuality, the Authoritarian -- Mindset, and the Limits of Language -- Matthias Luserke-Jaqui -- 5: Musil's "Die Vollendung der Liebe": Experience Analyzed and Reconstituted -- Silvia Bonacchi and Philip Payne -- 6: "Shifts in Emphasis": Robert Musil's Die Schw¿rmer and Twentieth-Century -- Drama -- Christian Rogowski -- 7: Robert Musil's Novellas in the Collection Drei Frauen -- Peter Henninger -- Perspectives on Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften -- 8: The Genesis of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften -- Walter Fanta -- 9: The Contribution of Biographical Research to the Understanding Characters and -- Themes of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften -- Karl Corino -- 10: Figuring Thought in Culture: "Utopia" in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften from the -- Perspective of Kulturwissenschaft -- Matthias Luserke-Jaqui and Philip Payne -- 11: The "Other" Musil: Robert Musil and Mysticism -- Genese Grill -- 12: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften: Unfinished or without End? -- Burton Pike -- 13: The "Finale" of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften: Competing Editions and the -- "Telos" of the Narrative -- Walter Fanta -- 14: "Reception without Qualities": Musil's Impact on Austrian and German Writers -- after 1945 -- R¿diger G¿rner -- Select Bibliography -- Robert Musil's Life: A Chronology -- Karl Corino -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [409]-422) and index |
| Subject |
Musil, Robert, 1880-1942 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Musil, Robert, 1880-1942. Mann ohne Eigenschaften.
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| Author |
Bartram, Graham, 1946-
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Payne, Philip, 1942-
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Tihanov, Galin.
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| LC no. |
2007021967 |
| ISBN |
1571131108 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9781571131102 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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