Nietzsche and the End of Freedom - The neo-Romantic dilemma in Kafka, the brothers Mann, Rilke and Musil, 1904-1914

Nietzsche's writing is not some game of 'freeplay' and terms like 'intertextuality' are useless in discussing its influence. This study takes Nietzsche, then Kafka's Trial , Thomas Mann's Death in Venice , Heinrich Mann's Man of Straw , Rilke's Malte Laurids Brigge and Musil's Törless . It argues that Nietzsche mediates and modernises the dilemmas of Romanticism and that a properly differentiated account of his literary reception can illuminate the dynamics of German culture on the eve of the Great War.

List of contents

Contents: Nietzsche and neo-Romanticism in Kafka's Trial , Thomas Mann's Death in Venice , Heinrich Mann's Man of Straw , Rilke's Malte Laurids Brigge and Musil's Törless .

Product details

• Authors: J. M. Hawes, James Hawes
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9783631461792
• ISBN: 978-3-631-46179-2
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 11 mm x 213 mm
• Weight: 270 g
• Series: Historisch-kritische Arbeiten zur deutschen Literatur; Historisch-kritische Arbeiten zur deutschen Literatur
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies