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PETER LANG - European Academic Publishers
are pleased to announce a new book by
Susan Ray
BEYOND NIHILISM
Gottfried Benn's Postmodernist Poetics
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2003.
205 pp. Studies in Modern German Literature. Vol. 96 General Editor:
Peter D. G. Brown
ISBN 3-03910-006-8 / US-ISBN 0-8204-6275-6 pb.
sFr. 62.00 / EUR* 42.80 / EUR** 40.00 / £ 26.00 / US-$ 39.95
* includes VAT - only valid for Germany and Austria
** does not include VAT
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.
Contents: Textual analysis of the Rönne-cycle - Problem of autonomous
self and self as text - Relation of self to language - Nietzsche's
influence on Benn's poetics - Relationship of Benn's aesthetic theories
to current trends in literary criticism - Deconstruction - Role of art
in society.
The Author: Dr. Susan H. Ray is an ATA accredited translator and
Associate Professor of German at Fordham University in New York.
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