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: 9780198159070

ISBN-10: 0198159072

ISBN-13: 9780198159070

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 proclaimed a brief 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 highly acclaimed, original historical study, Mark 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…

Book details

List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/16/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.814