The End of Modernism
William Collins Donahue
The University of North Carolina Press 
Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
Beschreibung
Nobel laureate Elias Canetti wrote his novel
Auto-da-Fe (
Die Blendung) when he and the twentieth century were still quite young. Rooted in the cultural crises of the Weimar period,
Auto-da-Fe 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-Fe as an exemplum of "analytic modernism," and in this sense a crucial endpoint in the progression of postwar conceptions of literary modernism.
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Weimar, modernism's fragmented subject, philosophical fads, Die Blendung, University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures, analytic modernism, Freud, German studies, misogyny, twentieth century, failure of humanism, Freudianism, fragmented subject, literary modernism, contemporary philosophy, racial anti-Semitism