Kafka's Clothes Ornament and Aestheticism in the Habsburg Fin de Siï¿½cle

Name: Kafka's Clothes Ornament and Aestheticism in the Habsburg Fin de Siï¿½cle
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ISBN: 9780198151623

ISBN-10: 0198151624

ISBN-13: 9780198151623

Edition: 1992

Authors: Mark M. Anderson

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"One should either be a work of art, or wear one," proclaimed Oscar Wilde at the end of the nineteenth century; "I am made of literature, I am nothing else, and cannot be anything else," Franz Kafka declared a decade later. Between these two claims lies the largely unexplored region in which the European decadent movement turned into the modernist avant-garde. In this original historical study, Anderson explores Kafka's early dandyism, his interest in fashion, literary decadence and the "superficial" spectacle of modern urban life as well as his subsequent repudiation of these phenomena in forging a literary identity as the isolated, otherworldly "poet" of modern alienation. Rather than…

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List price: $76.50
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/16/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 244
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.75" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Note on Citations and Abbreviations


Introduction: Decadence and the Crisis of Ornament



The Traffic of Clothes: Meditation and Description of a Struggle



The Jugendstil Body: Reform Clothing and the Cultural Politics of the Kunstwart



Body Culture: J. P. Miller's Gymnastic System and the Ascetic Ideal



Kafka in America: Notes on a Travelling Narrative



Sliding down the Evolutionary Ladder? Aesthetic Autonomy in The Metamorphosis



The Physiognomy of Guilt: The Trial



The Ornaments of Writing: 'In the Penal Colony'



'Jewish' Music? Otto Weininger and 'Josephine the Singer'


Epilogue: The Invisible Dandy


Bibliography


Index