Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-century German Writing (Rethinking Theory) - Hardcover

Bernstein, Michael Andre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810117746 ISBN 13: 9780810117747

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 2000

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Book by Bernstein Michael

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Críticas:

""Five Portraits" represents the work of one of our leading critics of modern literature writing at the peak of his powers. What unites these essays is above all Bernstein's shrewd and eminently sensible perceptions of the moral dangers in a propensity to the cultivation of dramatic extremes in the modern German imagination." Robert Alter, University of California, Berkeley" "It is always welcome to have a new book that reaches out beyond the academic field of German studies, and encourages a wider readership to engage with the work of German-language writers. . . . These five essays (written originally for the "New Republic") represent an admirable attempt to engage with the work of complex thinkers."--"Times Literary Supplement" "This slim volume of deftly written essays is sure to knock many a full-length study of any of the five German writers under discussion off the shelf."--"Library Journal"

Reseña del editor:

This work includes readings of Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, Robert Musil, Martin Heidegger and Walter Benjamin: two poets, a novelist, a philosopher and a literary-cultural theorist. Other than literary-philosophical issues, the text concerns history, politics and high culture.

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• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0810117746
• ISBN 13: 9780810117747
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128