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Robert Musil and the NonModern

2011-04-28 Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Robert Musil and the NonModern by : Mark M. Freed

Download or read book Robert Musil and the NonModern written by Mark M. Freed. This book was released on 2011-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities is widely recognized as a monument of modernist literature alongside Remembrance of Things Past and Ulysses. But while Musil is a major scholarly industry in the German-speaking world, critical attention from English-speaking scholars remains disproportionately small. Moreover, there has been little engagement with Musil's contribution to cultural theory from those working outside literary studies. Freed brings Musil into dialogue with such critics of the modern as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Lyotard and argues that Musil's theory and literary performance of essayism constitutes a strategy of nonmodernity: that is, an engagement with the problems of modernity that does not re-inscribe the distinctions on which modernism grounded itself. This book not only offers an understanding of Musil's essayism made possible by Latour's account of modernity: it also articulates what the discursive and cultural project of nonmodernity might look like. The book thereby introduces Musil scholars and those working in the problematics of postmodernism to one another's interests.

Robert Musil and the NonModern

2011-04-28 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2011-04-28
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Book Synopsis Robert Musil and the NonModern by : Mark M. Freed

Download or read book Robert Musil and the NonModern written by Mark M. Freed. This book was released on 2011-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positions Robert Musil's theory and writings within recent critical accounts of modernism and brings him into dialogue with continental philosophy.

The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities

2012 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2012
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Book Synopsis The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities by : Genese Grill

Download or read book The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities written by Genese Grill. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil's commitment to the artist's role in re-creating the world. Robert Musil, known to be a scientific and philosophical thinker, was committed to aesthetics as a process of experimental creation of an ever-shifting reality. Musil wanted, above all, to be a creative writer, and obsessively engaged in almost endless deferral via variations and metaphoric possibilities in his novel project, The Man without Qualities. This lifelong process of writing is embodied in the unfinished novel by a recurring metaphor of self-generating de-centered circle worlds. The present study analyzes this structure with reference to Musil's concepts of the utopia of the Other Condition, Living and Dead Words, Specific and Non-Specific Emotions, Word Magic, andthe Still Life. In contrast to most recent studies of Musil, it concludes that the extratemporal metaphoric experience of the Other Condition does not fail, but rather constitutes the formal and ethical core of Musil's novel. Thefirst study to utilize the newly published Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's literary remains (a searchable annotated text), The World as Metaphor offers a close reading of variations and text genesis, shedding light not onlyon Musil's novel, but also on larger questions about the modernist artist's role and responsibility in consciously re-creating the world. Genese Grill holds a PhD in Germanic Literatures and Languages from the GraduateSchool and University Center of the City University of New York.

Robert Musil and the Question of Science

2020 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2020
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Book Synopsis Robert Musil and the Question of Science by : Tim Mehigan

Download or read book Robert Musil and the Question of Science written by Tim Mehigan. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new study of Robert Musil by one of the world's leading Musil scholars. Musil's extraordinary works, the study reveals, emerged from the problem of the "two cultures."

J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus

2017-02-09 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2017-02-09
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Book Synopsis J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus by : Anthony Uhlmann

Download or read book J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus written by Anthony Uhlmann. This book was released on 2017-02-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the controversy and acclaim that surrounded the publication of Disgrace (1999), the awarding of the Nobel Prize for literature and the publication of Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (both in 2003), J. M. Coetzee's status has begun to steadily rise to the point where he has now outgrown the specialized domain of South African literature. Today he is recognized more simply as one of the most important writers in the English language from the late 20th and early 21st century. Coetzee's productivity and invention has not slowed with old age. The Childhood of Jesus, published in 2013, like Elizabeth Costello, was met with a puzzled reception, as critics struggled to come to terms with its odd setting and structure, its seemingly flat tone, and the strange affectless interactions of its characters. Most puzzling was the central character, David, linked by the title to an idea of Jesus. J.M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus: The Ethics of Ideas and Things is at the forefront of an exciting process of critical engagement with this novel, which has begun to uncover its rich dialogue with philosophy, theology, mathematics, politics, and questions of meaning.

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