The Technological Unconscious in German Modernist Literature: Nature in Rilke, Benn, Brecht, and Döblin

by Professor Larson Powell

A bold new theoretical analysis of literary modernism and its conception of and relation to nature.

Even after the end of modernism and postmodernism, grandiose fantasies of artifice and self-reference still resonate in the social constructivism of current literary and cultural theory: in the idea that we can perform or construct identities or social roles without external constraint, as if we had consumer choice of self. Larson Powell's book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571133828
• ISBN13: 9781571133823
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.2" x 6.2"