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A Companion To The Works Of Robert Musil
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Book Synopsis A Companion to the Works of Robert Musil by : Philip Payne
Download or read book A Companion to the Works of Robert Musil written by Philip Payne and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and extensive look at the works of the great Austrian novelist in the context of the German and Austrian culture of his time.
Book Synopsis The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities by : Genese Grill
Download or read book The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities written by Genese Grill and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil's commitment to the artist's role in re-creating the world. Robert Musil, known to be a scientific and philosophical thinker, was committed to aesthetics as a process of experimental creation of an ever-shifting reality. Musil wanted, above all, to be a creative writer, and obsessively engaged in almost endless deferral via variations and metaphoric possibilities in his novel project, The Man without Qualities. This lifelong process of writing is embodied in the unfinished novel by a recurring metaphor of self-generating de-centered circle worlds. The present study analyzes this structure with reference to Musil's concepts of the utopia of the Other Condition, Living and Dead Words, Specific and Non-Specific Emotions, Word Magic, andthe Still Life. In contrast to most recent studies of Musil, it concludes that the extratemporal metaphoric experience of the Other Condition does not fail, but rather constitutes the formal and ethical core of Musil's novel. Thefirst study to utilize the newly published Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's literary remains (a searchable annotated text), The World as Metaphor offers a close reading of variations and text genesis, shedding light not onlyon Musil's novel, but also on larger questions about the modernist artist's role and responsibility in consciously re-creating the world. Genese Grill holds a PhD in Germanic Literatures and Languages from the GraduateSchool and University Center of the City University of New York.
Download or read book Young Törless written by Robert Musil and published by Harvill Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Robert Musil and the Question of Science by : Tim Mehigan
Download or read book Robert Musil and the Question of Science written by Tim Mehigan and published by Studies in German Literature. This book was released on 2020 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new study of Robert Musil by one of the world's leading Musil scholars. Musil's extraordinary works, the study reveals, emerged from the problem of the "two cultures."
Book Synopsis Robert Musil and the Culture of Vienna by : Hannah Hickman
Download or read book Robert Musil and the Culture of Vienna written by Hannah Hickman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Musil (1880-1942), author of The Man without Qualities, is one of the handful of most important writers of the twentieth century. Among Anglophone readers Musil has enjoyed a dedicated cult following, but until recently poor translations and radical misunderstandings of his aims and techniques have retarded the full appreciation of his genius. Hannah Hickman's compact survey of Musil's work and influences has won recognition as the only adequate introduction to its subject. Hickman has taken advantage of a wealth of recently available evidence to give a reliable account of this often baffling and immensely subtle writer.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel by : Graham Bartram
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel written by Graham Bartram and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present. Written by an international team of experts, it encompasses both modernist and realist traditions, and also includes a look back to the roots of the modern novel in the Bildungsroman of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The structure is broadly chronological, but thematically-focused chapters examine topics such as gender anxiety, images of the city, war, and women's writing; within each chapter, key works are selected for close attention. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and detailed analysis of individual works, and featuring a chronology and guides to further reading, this Companion will be indispensable to students and teachers.
Book Synopsis Understanding Robert Musil by : Allen Thiher
Download or read book Understanding Robert Musil written by Allen Thiher and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deft analysis of the fiction, theater, and essays of the author of The Man without Qualities In this critical introduction to the major works of Austrian modernist writer Robert Musil (1880-1942), Allen Thiher offers deft analysis of Musil's short fiction, theater, and essays, and his major novel, The Man without Qualities. Thiher maps Musil's development as a writer, illustrating how his work evolved in response to catastrophic historical events such as World War I, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Hitler's seizure of power. From this historical context, Thiher traces how Musil began his career by writing a prescient first novel about ideological developments in German culture and, at the same time, a doctoral thesis on scientific epistemology. Following his service in World War I, Musil began to view writing as his vocation and, during this early period in his literary career, he produced short fiction, plays, and some of the most interesting essays on politics, ethics, and literature to be published during the Weimar era. In exploring these writings as well as The Man without Qualities, a work left unfinished upon Musil's death in exile during World War II, Thiher's study plumbs the depths of Musil's ambition and accomplishments and presents a concise interpretation of the lasting significance of the writer's interrogations of the foundations of modern European culture.
Download or read book Three Women written by Robert Musil and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Women, a new translation, is a major book of stories by the great Austrian writer, Robert Musil.
Book Synopsis Robert Musil's 'The Man Without Qualities' by : Philip Payne
Download or read book Robert Musil's 'The Man Without Qualities' written by Philip Payne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the first comprehensive study of The Man Without Qualities, guides the reader towards Musil's central concerns.
Download or read book The Enthusiasts written by Robert Musil and published by AJ Publishing Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philisophical erotic comedy of ideas in which the old world is threatened by new ideas of sexual freedom and scientific scepticism.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism by : Pericles Lewis
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism written by Pericles Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad, accessible account of European modernism as a truly cosmopolitan movement.
Book Synopsis The Critical Response to Musil's The Man Without Qualities by : Timothy J. Mehigan
Download or read book The Critical Response to Musil's The Man Without Qualities written by Timothy J. Mehigan and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Book Synopsis In the Shadow of Empire by : Malcolm Spencer
Download or read book In the Shadow of Empire written by Malcolm Spencer and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spencer then considers Roth's more negative reaction, showing the post-imperial novel Radetzkymarsch to be a nostalgic response to the collapse of Habsburg Austria and the rise of fascism. The final chapter looks again at the end of empire, not in the work of writers who lived through it, but through that of one who experienced it as a historical and cultural legacy: Ingeborg Bachmann."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Unions: Two Stories by : Robert Musil
Download or read book Unions: Two Stories written by Robert Musil and published by Contra Mundum Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1911, following his 1906 debut, The Confusions of Young Törless, Robert Musil published the two experimental stories that make up Unions. "The Completion of Love" and "The Temptation of Quiet Veronica" were some of Musil's earliest forays into what would become a life-long exploration of the life, adventures, and psychological processes of his fiancé, Martha Marcovaldi -- the future Martha Musil. When Musil later wrote of the "two authors" of his great unfinished work, The Man without Qualities, the co-author referred to was no other than Martha. The stories in Unions, drawn from Martha's life, explode conventional morality; explore questions of self, union, and dissolution of self; and approximate exceptional sensations of erotic and intellectual perception in a shimmering and exceedingly dense proliferation of metaphors. The images, Musil tells us in a note, are the bone, not just the skin, of these carefully crafted stories. Each word is as motivated as the internal and external moments it attempts to embody in language. Although Musil did not continue to work in this experimental style in his later writing, in a late note he affirmed that Unions, the fruit of much artistic struggle and deep personal engagement, was the only one of his books that he sometimes still read from. This is a new English-language translation of the two stories and the first one to appear -- in the form of Musil's original publication -- as Unions. A scholarly introduction by the translator, Genese Grill, explains the provenance of the stories and the need for a new approach to this book so central to his oeuvre.
Book Synopsis Life Configurations by : Gert Melville
Download or read book Life Configurations written by Gert Melville and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Configurations focuses on the analysis and reflection on the various forms in which human beings imagine, design, conjecture, and plan their “becoming”, that is to say their lives. Case studies written by an interdisciplinary circle of well-known academics explore how the capacity of designing life, the concept of free will, and the methods to calculate the future have been changed and adopted in different societies and in different ages.
Book Synopsis The Confusions of Young Törless by : Robert Musil
Download or read book The Confusions of Young Törless written by Robert Musil and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Törless is sent to a military boarding school for the sons of the nobility on the eastern outreaches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Far from his comfortable, free-thinking bourgeois home and left to his own devices, he experiences the joy, pain and self-doubt of adolescence. He is confronted with desire and love, but also his own cruelty, as he finds himself participating in his fellow pupils' bullying campaigns. A dark Bildungsroman which shocked its readership at the time, Robert Musil's first novel is a fresco of psychoanalysis, philosophy, eroticism, snobbery, sado-masochism and schoolboy humour, a hothouse of alternately repressed and unchained desires that prefigure the carnage of both World Wars.
Book Synopsis A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch by : Graham Bartram
Download or read book A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch written by Graham Bartram and published by Studies in German Literature L. This book was released on 2019 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is best known for his two major modernist works, The Sleepwalkers (3 vols., 1930-1932) and The Death of Virgil (1945), which frame a lifetime of ethical, cultural, political, and social thought. A textile manufacturer by trade, Broch entered the literary scene late in life with an experimental view of the novel that strove towards totality and vividly depicted Europe's cultural disintegration. As fascism took over and Broch, a Viennese Jew, was forced into exile, his view of literature as transformative was challenged, but his commitment to presenting an ethical view of the crises of his time was unwavering. An important mentor and interlocutor for contemporaries such as Arendt and Canetti as well as a continued inspiration for contemporary authors, Broch wrote to better understand and shape the political and cultural conditions for a postfascist world. This volume covers the major literary works and constitutes the first comprehensive introduction in English to Broch's political, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical writings. Contributors: Graham Bartram, Brechtje Beuker, Gisela Brude-Firnau, Gwyneth Cliver, Jennifer Jenkins, Kathleen L. Komar, Paul Michael Lützeler, Gunther Martens, Sarah McGaughey, Judith Ryan, Judith Sidler, Galin Tihanov, Sebastian Wogenstein. Graham Bartram retired as Senior Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Lancaster, UK. Sarah McGaughey is Associate Professor of German at Dickinson College, USA. Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, UK.
