Exotic Spaces in German Modernism

by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei

Book Overview

Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei demonstrates that the exotic, as reflected in major works of German literature and in the philosophy and art that inspires it, provokes central questions about the modern self and the spaces it inhabits. Exotic spaces in the writings of such authors as Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Stefan Zweig, Robert Musil, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Gottfried Benn, and Bertold Brecht, along with the thought of Nietzsche, Freud, Levi-Strauss,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199604126
• ISBN13: 9780199604128
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"