Kafka's clothes : ornament and aestheticism in the Habsburg fin de siècle

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Kafka's clothes : ornament and aestheticism in the Habsburg fin de siècle

Mark M. Anderson

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1992

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-225) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Rather than posit a break between these two personae, Anderson charts the historical continuities between the young Kafka and the author of "The Metamorphosis" and "The Trial". The book demonstrates how clothing functions as a semi-private code of meaning in his literary works and the extent to which the aestheticist notion of "becoming" the work of art haunts Kafka's conception of writing throughout his life. The result is a startlingly unconventional portrait of Kafka and Prague at the turn of the century, involving such issues as Jugendstil aesthetics, Otto Weininger's "egoless" woman, the Viennese critique of architectural ornament, the clothing-reform movement, anti-Semitism and the question of Jewish-German writing.

目次

  • 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. Mueller'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 and Singer"
  • epilogue - the invisible dandy.

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