| The Dear Purchase Contributor(s): Stern, J. P. (Author), Boyle, Nicholas (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0521433304 ISBN-13: 9780521433303 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $107.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Dewey: 830.935 |
| LCCN: 94005827 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in German |
| Physical Information: 1.18" H x 5.81" W x 8.81" (1.43 lbs) 468 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Completed shortly before Professor Stern's death in 1991, this book studies works by twelve major writers of German modernism, including Thomas Mann, Musil, Brecht and Rilke, in relation to the history of the twentieth century. It explores the theme of the dear purchase, an ideal of moral strenuousness and sacrifice seen as characteristic of Germany after Nietzsche, and reveals the underlying flaw in this notion as a self-justifying value. Finally, it juxtaposes Mann's Felix Krull and Kafka's story Josephine as a deliverance from the value-system of the title. |