Permanent Liminality And Modernity: Analysing The Sacrificial Carnival Through Novels (Contemporary Liminality)

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I Before World War I: waiting for the storm -- 1 Empires and their collapse: fin-de-siècle Vienna in context -- 2 Hugo von Hofmannsthal: promises and realities -- 3 Novel origins: Rilke's Notebooks of Malte and Hofmannsthal's Andreas -- PART II Suspended in the In-Between: Franz Kafka -- 4 Kafka's sources and insights: theatre and other modes of distorted communication -- 5 Kafka's novels: in between theatre, theology and prophecy -- 6 The Z?au Notebooks: the indestructible and the way

• • Author: ?p? Szakolczai
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Oct 04, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 282 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1472473884
• • ISBN-13: 9781472473882