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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction. Toward a Krausian Theory of Modernity -- Part 1. Satire and Counterdiscourse -- Chapter 1. Reciting War: The Last Days of Mankind (1915-1922) -- Chapter 2. On Birds, Wars, and Fragile Republics: Cloudcuckooland (1923) -- Chapter 3. "Where Illegality Becomes the Law": Third Walpurgis Night (1933/1952) -- Part 2. Dialogues -- Chapter 4. "A Monstrous Nonentity": Kierkegaard, Kraus, and Benjamin -- Chapter 5. "Origin Is the Goal": Adorno and Kraus -- Coda. "Shadows Cast Bodies": Kraus and Posterity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity argues that the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus's work draws attention to the distinctly modern way in which experience lags behind political catastrophe"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 02, 2020) |
| Subject |
Kraus, Karl, 1874-1936 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Kraus, Karl, 1874-1936 -- Political and social views
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Kraus, Karl, 1874-1936 -- Political and social views
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Kraus, Karl, 1874-1936 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Kraus, Karl, 1874-1936 |
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Modernism (Literature) -- Austria
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Politics and literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Modernism (Literature)
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Political and social views
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Politics and literature
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Austria
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0810141647 |
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9780810141643 |
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