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Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German Writing

English · Paperback / Softback

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In Five Portraits, one of the most acute critical thinkers of our time presents essays on five of the most important writers of the past hundred years: Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, Robert Musil, Martin Heidegger, and Walter Benjamin. The result is a remarkable examination of a moment when these writers, caught between the dream of creating an abiding masterpiece and the reality of a brutal culture fascinated by apocalyptic catastrophe, deliberately put themselves and their work at the center of the storm. Written in elegant and jargon-free prose, Michael Andre Bernstein's essays create a vivid image of an epoch whose aspirations and torments continues to shape the world we inhabit today.

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MICHAEL ANDRE BERNSTEIN is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Foregone Conclusions: Against Apocalyptic History; Bitter Carnival: Ressentiment and the Abject Hero; and The Tale of the Tribe: Ezra Pound and the Modern Verse Epic. his work regularly appears in the New Republic, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications.

Product details

Authors Michael Bernstein
Publisher Northwestern University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.08.2000
 
EAN 9780810131514
ISBN 978-0-8101-3151-4
No. of pages 150
Series Rethinking Theory
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies

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