Beyond Nihilism: Gottfried Benn's Postmodernist PoeticsP. Lang, 2003 - 205 oldal The ideas underlying Benn's Ausdruckswelt not only anticipate and parallel many of the assumptions now current in recent trends in literary criticism; they also disclose their ultimate limitations. Benn's poetics were founded on the intellectual crises of the early years of the twentieth century. Following Nietzschean leads, Benn sought to achieve in his person and his work a return to a primitive, archetypal mode of perception which he felt would restore a purer, more natural mentality to modern man, whom he portrayed as being 'far ahead of his syntax'. By focusing on Benn's early Expressionist prose and what this study calls his 'fictive self', the author traces the relationship between Benn's Weltanschauung and later critical theory. Building upon the latest scholarship, she analyses Benn's poetics as precursor of certain postmodernist ideas concerning language, meaning and polysemy, aesthetics, personal identity, authorial intention versus reader reception, intertextuality, and the role of art in society. By paying specific attention to the concept of the autonomous self and its relation to language, this study demonstrates that Gottfried Benn's aesthetic theories do not represent the end of German Expressionism, but rather the beginning of the present post-modernist period. |
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... Rönne suffered from a sense of alienation , of insecurity , of being out of place wherever he found himself . As Benn later explained in his autobiographical Lebensweg eines Intellektualisten [ The Way of an Intellectualist ] , Rönne ...
... Rönne suffered from a sense of alienation , of insecurity , of being out of place wherever he found himself . As Benn later explained in his autobiographical Lebensweg eines Intellektualisten [ The Way of an Intellectualist ] , Rönne ...
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... Rönne summons up enough courage to make a personal contribution to the social event underway . By this time the conversation had turned to the reactions one could expect from having ingested this mysterious food . Now or never , ascent ...
... Rönne summons up enough courage to make a personal contribution to the social event underway . By this time the conversation had turned to the reactions one could expect from having ingested this mysterious food . Now or never , ascent ...
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... Rönne is not fighting his environment , but feels at home in it , is at peace with his role and his life . The scene is a static one : Rönne is sitting down and deliberately sets about conjuring up his fictive self by engaging in an ...
... Rönne is not fighting his environment , but feels at home in it , is at peace with his role and his life . The scene is a static one : Rönne is sitting down and deliberately sets about conjuring up his fictive self by engaging in an ...
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Preface | 7 |
Progressive Cerebration | 31 |
The Historical Background | 51 |
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