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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... established a difference , a dichotomy , and a tension between the ego and the self . The ego , or more commonly called the personality , was that aspect of the self which one presents to the outside world , whereas what Benn understood ...
... established a difference , a dichotomy , and a tension between the ego and the self . The ego , or more commonly called the personality , was that aspect of the self which one presents to the outside world , whereas what Benn understood ...
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... established once and for all the revolutionary idea of an autonomous self that was capable of imposing form and order on the world of external reality . It was also responsible for weighing and choosing between alternatives , for ...
... established once and for all the revolutionary idea of an autonomous self that was capable of imposing form and order on the world of external reality . It was also responsible for weighing and choosing between alternatives , for ...
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... established by others . The text takes on an expressive life of its own through the metonymous use of the depersonalizing alternation of narrative voice and its inevitable consequence that the reader is not sure whether it is the author ...
... established by others . The text takes on an expressive life of its own through the metonymous use of the depersonalizing alternation of narrative voice and its inevitable consequence that the reader is not sure whether it is the author ...
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Preface | 7 |
Progressive Cerebration | 31 |
The Historical Background | 51 |
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absolute art absolute prose abstract aesthetic alienation alter ego anchored artist aspect associations autobiographical autonomous Benn's Ausdruckswelt Benn's poetics bourgeois called consciousness construction contemporary create creative criticism culture deconstruction deliberate Derrida E. B. Ashton essay established existence existential experience expression Expressionism Expressionist external fact formal Frankfurt am Main German German Expressionism Gottfried Benn Heinrich Mann historical pessimism human idea identity images individual intellectual interpretation irrational irrationality Jacques Derrida Jürgen Schröder Kandinsky language later linguistic literary theory literature lyric meaning metaphysical metaphysics of presence metonomy metonymous modern modernist myth mythic narrative National Socialism nature Nazis Nietzsche Nietzsche's nihilism original Pameelen philosophy poet poetry political polysemy postmodernist postmodernist literary problem progress protagonist pure quotidian reality rational reader realm reception reference role Rönne sense significance society Steinmetz thought tion traditional transcendent translated by E. B. Übermensch ultimate Verlag vitalist Wellershoff whole words worldview