The Dear Purchase

A Theme in German Modernism

By:

J.P. Stern

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in German

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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.

Release date NZ

February 2nd, 1995

Author

J.P. Stern

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Foreword by Nicholas Boyle

Pages

468

Series

Cambridge Studies in German

Dimensions

144x222x29

ISBN-13

9780521433303

Product ID

1976235

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