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

(Part of the Rethinking Theory Series)

by Michael André Bernstein

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0810117746

ISBN13:9780810117747

Release Date:August 2000

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Length:150 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) World Literature

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