Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei presents striking new readings of the exotic in major German writers such as Kafka, Mann, Brecht, and Hesse, alongside the thought of Nietzsche, Freud, Simmel, and Expressionist aesthetics. She shows how the evocation of exotic spaces serves to reflect on central problems of European modernity and the modern self. INDICE: Introduction: The 'Exotic' and the Geographical Imagination in Modern German Literature; 1: Fernweh, Travel, and the Re-enchantment of the Worldin Hofmannsthal, Dauthendey, and Hesse; 2: Infectious-Erotic Topographies in Thomas Mann and Zweig; 3: Intimate Elsewheres: The Imagination of Distance andVastness in Kafka; 4: Inner Depths: Topographies of Primal Consciousness in Benn, Musil, and Kubin; 5: Primitive Modernity and the Urban Jungle in Brecht; Conclusion; Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-19-960412-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés