The End of Modernism: Elias Canetti's Auto-Da-Fé
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Nobel laureate Elias Canetti wrote his novel Auto-da-F (Die Blendung) when he and the twentieth century were still quite young. Rooted in the cultural crises of the Weimar period, Auto-da-F first received critical acclaim abroad -- in England, France, and the United States -- where it continues to fascinate readers of subsequent generations. The End of Modernism places this work in its cultural and philosophical contexts, situating the novel not only in relation to Canetti's considerable body of social thought, but also within larger debates on Freud and Freudianism, misogyny and modernism's "fragmented subject," anti-Semitism and the failure of humanism, contemporary philosophy and philosophical fads, and traditionalist notions of literature and escapist conceptions of history. The End of Modernism portrays Auto-da-F as an exemplum of "analytic modernism," and in this sense a crucial endpoint in the progression of postwar conceptions of literary modernism.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469657422
ISBN13:9781469657424
Release Date:October 2001
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:302 Pages
Weight:0.99 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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