Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German Writing (Rethinking Theory)

Michael Andre Bernstein

ISBN 10: 0810117746 ISBN 13: 9780810117747

Published by Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 2000

Language: English

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Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German Writing (Rethinking Theory)

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Northwestern University Press, Evanston

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2000

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English

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0810117746

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9780810117747

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Hardcover

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This work includes readings of Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, Robert Musil, Martin Heidegger and Walter Benjamin: two poets, a novelist, a philosopher and a literary-cultural theorist. Other than literary-philosophical issues, the text concerns history, politics and high culture.

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Michael Andre Bernstein is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Foregone Conclusions: Against Apocalyptic History; Bitter Carnival: Ressentiment and the Abject Hero; and The Tale of the Tribe: Ezra Pound and the Modern Verse Epic. his work regularly appears in the New Republic, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications.

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