PETER LANG - International Academic
Publishers
are pleased to announce a new book by
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Alan
Corkhill
Spaces for Happiness in the Twentieth-Century German
Novel
Mann,
Kafka, Hesse, Jünger
Oxford,
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2012. VIII, 203 pp.
German
Life and Civilization. Vol. 57
General Editor: Jost Hermand
pb.
ISBN 978-3-0343-0797-0
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This
book offers an in-depth study of the rich tapestry of happiness discourses in
well-known philosophical novels by Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse and
Ernst Jünger, published between 1922 and 1949. The study is prompted, in part,
by an awareness that despite the interdisciplinarity of happiness research,
Western literary scholarship has paid scant attention to fictionalized
constructs of happiness. Each of the four chapters uses extended textual
analysis to explore the sites in which happiness (“Glück”)
and serenity (“Heiterkeit”)
are sought, experienced, narrated, reflected upon and enacted. The author
theorizes, with particular reference to Bachelard and Foucault, the interfaces
between interior and exterior spaces and states of well-being. In addition to
providing new interpretive perspectives on the canonical novels themselves, the
book makes a significant contribution to a broader history of the idea of
happiness through the appraisal of key intellectual cross-currents and
traditions, both Western and Eastern, underpinning the novelists’
varied and nuanced conceptualizations and aesthetic representations of
happiness.
Contents:
The
Twentieth-Century German Novel – Happiness (“Glück”)
and Serenity (“Heiterkeit”)
as a Literary Trope –
Happiness and Spatiality –
Happiness in Western and Eastern Traditions – Happiness
and Flow Theory –
Collective Promises of Happiness and Well-being – The
Technologization of Happiness – Serenity as a Heightened
State of Well-being.
Alan
Corkhill is Reader/Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of
Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of four monographs and
numerous book chapters and articles, chiefly on aspects of German literature
from the Enlightenment to the present. His monographs include „Australia
and the German Literary Imagination 1754-1918“ and „Glückskonzeptionen
im deutschen Roman von Wielands «Agathon» bis Goethes «Wahlverwandtschaften»“.
He
is also the Associate Editor of “Seminar. A
Journal of Germanic Studies”.
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