Format:
1 Online-Ressource (IX, 543 Seiten)
ISBN:
9789004341807
Series Statement:
Literary modernism volume 4
Content:
In Interbellum Literature historian Cor Hermans presents a panorama of modernist writing in the ominous period 1918-1940. The book offers, in full scope, an engaging synthesis of the most stimulating ideas and tendencies in the novels and plays of a wide circle of writers from France (Proust, Gide, Camus, Céline, Tzara, Aragon, Simone Weil), England and Ireland (Virginia Woolf, Orwell, Joyce, Beckett), the USA (Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Miller, O’Neill, Hemingway), Austria-Hungary (Musil, Broch, Kafka, Zweig, Roth), and Germany (Hesse, Jünger, Böll, Thomas Mann). Caught between world wars, they nevertheless succeeded in creating some of the best literature ever. They created a philosophy as well, rejecting bourgeois ‘mechanical’ society, designing escape routes from the nihilism of the times.
Content:
Interbellum Literature: Writing in a Season of Nihilism -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Imagine Sisyphus -- Part 1: Lost Worlds -- 1 The Algerian -- The Grave of the Unknown Father -- The Algerian Childhood of Camus -- The Other, the Arab -- Gide and Immorality -- The First Man (Why We All Are Settlers) -- The Footsteps of the One Next Door -- 2 A Salesman Called Schoenzeit -- Arthur Miller Overlooking Central Park -- The Jazz Age According to F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Triumph of the Miltex Company -- Crash and Guilt -- A Dejected Soul -- Forever Writing Plays on Family Relations -- The Sirens of Success -- 3 Becoming Böll -- Nazi School Years in Cologne -- Göring Comes to Town, Casting a Shadow -- The Secret of Immunity, Part 1 -- Analysing Weimar at the Kitchen Table -- Hesse and Demian: Uplifted by 'The Stream of the World' -- Sleepwalking -- Céline, Hero in Decline of the Previous War -- Unheroic Normality -- The Secret of Immunity, Part 2 -- 4 Beckett Climbs the Mount of Joy -- The Philosophy of Suffering -- A Chest Full of Incoherent Thoughts -- Behold Belacqua -- A Guilty State of Mind -- Poetry and Verticality -- Dante and Dada -- The Starfield of Modernity -- Three Capital Divas -- Beatrice and a Black Diamond -- Vie de Bohème and Uncontrolled Thought -- The Bridge to Redemption -- 5 A Farewell to Vienna -- The Omnipresent -- The Spartans of the Danube -- Freud Puts European Civilisation on His Sofa -- Disintegrating Values and Vienna's Merry Apocalypse -- The Vacuum Surrounding Von Hofmannsthal -- Hermann Broch's Dream of a New Unifying Culture -- Zweig's Impatient Heart -- The Dangers of Pity and the Meaning of Nostalgia -- 6 A Thin Slice of Bois de Boulogne -- How Pinter Tried to Capture Proust … -- … and Found the Golden Glow of Delft -- Birth of a Writer -- Spheres (Mental, Geographical, Musical)
Content:
Beckett and the Horror of the Proustian Prison of Time -- Giving Up Habit -- Revelation Through Involuntary Memory -- Putting Time in Place -- The Surrealist Proust -- A Celtic Belief and the Mystery of Trees and Steeples -- Living by the Laws of Imagination -- Man Ray and the Dimensions of Sleep -- Part 2: Models of Daring -- 7 Caligula and the Moon -- The Chair of Count Ciano -- A Tuscan Desert -- The Aesthetics of Ruins: Tipasa and Djémila -- Caligula's Disillusion -- Absolute Freedom to Reach for the Impossible -- Dictatorship Taking Over the Role of Divine Fatality -- How Camus Came to be Possessed by Dostoyevsky -- Living Underground or in a House above the World -- Helen's Measure -- 8 On Meeting Joyce -- The Assignment -- Talking to the Hero of Triviality -- The Uncharted Orbit of a Cruel Playful Mind -- Homeric Cycles, or the Everyday Odyssey of Our Bodies -- Walking with Beckett, Following the Vico Road -- The Interior Monologue of the Zeitgeist -- The New Medievalism: Announcing Another Age of Extremes -- 9 Musil Traverses "Park Nietzsche" -- Bonfire in the Hills of Genoa -- The World Hides in the Mountains -- Decadent Kakania -- Pseudoreality and the Sense of Possibility -- Fragments of Science and the Mystic Whole -- Why We Should be without Qualities -- The Ecstatic Millennium, Never to End -- 10 Sartre in Berlin and Bouville -- History's Invisibility -- The Little Platonist -- Passing Hysteria? -- The Philosophy of Things -- The Varnishes Melt, Nausea Takes Over -- 11 Norwegian Light -- The Disappearance of Henrik Ibsen -- 'Your Inward Heroism' -- The Temple Portico and Other Masks -- The Michigan Take-Off -- The Mongrel and the Poodle -- Part 3: Land, Stock, and Fringe -- 12 Bohemian and Bauer -- La Bohème, or Moral Independence -- A Dangerous Code to Live By -- Catching the Last Colours under a Darkening Sky
Content:
Paris nor Pamplona: The Expat on Tour -- Dada Intermezzo at the Cabaret Voltaire -- Virginia's Bloomsbury: 'Why Is There Not a Discovery in Life?' -- Orwell, Down and Out -- The Bauer Perspective -- 13 The Grimace of Céline -- The Patient and the Enlightened Doctor -- Life and Work -- Racial Hygiene to Counter the Fear of Nihilism -- The Trial as an Act of Forgiveness -- Montmartre Skies, or the Athenian Who Loved the Purity of Dance -- "I've Always Got My Cyanide on Me!" -- 14 Simone Weil and Franz Kafka: A Forceful Parallel -- Martian Lady in Black -- The Iliad All Over Again -- Gravity, Grace, and Resistance -- The Cruel Machines of Bureaucracy -- The Philosophy of Waiting -- How to Mend the Uprooted Soul -- The Ascetic Art of Hunger -- 15 Ernst Jünger's World of Fire -- Occident and Exaltation -- The Shattered Brain -- The Grail of the Purest Nationalism -- The Face of Pain -- After the Fire -- An Unfortunate Combination of Names -- 16 Thomas Mann and Some Afterthoughts -- The Enchanted Sanatorium -- The Priority of Wartime Thoughts -- Two Rival Pedagogues -- Snow and Blood -- Literary Strategies to Retrieve the Sense of Being -- Modernity and the Return of Sisyphus -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004341791
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hermans, Cor, 1953 - Interbellum literature Leiden : Brill, 2017 ISBN 9789004341791
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Literatur
;
Geschichte 1918-1940
DOI:
10.1163/9789004341807
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