The Dear Purchase: A Theme in German Modernism

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in German Series)

by J.P. Stern, Joseph Peter Stern, Joseph P. Stern

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Completed shortly before Professor Stern's death in 1991, this book studies works by twelve major writers of German modernism, including Thomas Mann, Musil, Brecht and Rilke, in relation to the history of the twentieth century. It explores the theme of the dear purchase, an ideal of moral strenuousness and sacrifice seen as characteristic of Germany after Nietzsche, and reveals the underlying flaw in this notion as a self-justifying value. Finally,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521024404

ISBN13:9780521024402

Release Date:March 2006

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:468 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

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

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