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The Resource Kafka's clothes : ornament and aestheticism in the Habsburg fin de siècle, Mark M. Anderson

Kafka's clothes : ornament and aestheticism in the Habsburg fin de siècle, Mark M. Anderson

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"'One should either be a work of art, or wear one', proclaimed Oscar Wilde at the end of the nineteenth century; 'I am made of literature, I am nothing else, and cannot be anything else', Franz Kafka proclaimed a brief decade later. Between these two claims lies the largely unexplored region in which the European decadent movement turned into the modernist avant-garde." "In this original historical study, Mark Anderson explores Kafka's early dandyism, his interest in fashion, literary decadence and the 'superficial' spectacle of modern urban life as well as his subsequent repudiation of these phenomena in forging a literary identity as the isolated, otherworldly 'poet' of modern alienation. Rather than posit a break between these two personae, Anderson charts the historical continuities between the young Kafka and the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. The book demonstrates how clothing functions as a semi-private code of meaning in his literary works and the extent to which the aestheticist notion of becoming the work of art haunts Kafka's conception of writing throughout his life." "The result is a startlingly unconventional portrait of Kafka and Prague at the turn of the century, involving such issues as Jugendstil aesthetics, Otto Weininger's 'egoless' woman, the Viennese critique of architectural ornament, the clothing-reform movement, anti-Semitism and the question of Jewish-German writing."--Jacket
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eng
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Kafka's clothes : ornament and aestheticism in the Habsburg fin de siècle
Title
Kafka's clothes
Title remainder
ornament and aestheticism in the Habsburg fin de siècle
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Mark M. Anderson
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Language
eng
Summary
"'One should either be a work of art, or wear one', proclaimed Oscar Wilde at the end of the nineteenth century; 'I am made of literature, I am nothing else, and cannot be anything else', Franz Kafka proclaimed a brief decade later. Between these two claims lies the largely unexplored region in which the European decadent movement turned into the modernist avant-garde." "In this original historical study, Mark Anderson explores Kafka's early dandyism, his interest in fashion, literary decadence and the 'superficial' spectacle of modern urban life as well as his subsequent repudiation of these phenomena in forging a literary identity as the isolated, otherworldly 'poet' of modern alienation. Rather than posit a break between these two personae, Anderson charts the historical continuities between the young Kafka and the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. The book demonstrates how clothing functions as a semi-private code of meaning in his literary works and the extent to which the aestheticist notion of becoming the work of art haunts Kafka's conception of writing throughout his life." "The result is a startlingly unconventional portrait of Kafka and Prague at the turn of the century, involving such issues as Jugendstil aesthetics, Otto Weininger's 'egoless' woman, the Viennese critique of architectural ornament, the clothing-reform movement, anti-Semitism and the question of Jewish-German writing."--Jacket
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Anderson, Mark M
Dewey number
833/.912
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PT2621.A26
LC item number
Z5734 1992
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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  • Kafka, Franz
  • Austria
  • Decadence (Literary movement)
  • Aestheticism (Literature)
  • Dandies
  • Decoration and ornament
  • Kafka, Franz
  • Kafka, Franz
  • Décadentisme
  • Esthétisme (Littérature)
  • Dandys
  • Décoration et ornement
  • Autriche
  • Kafka, Franz
  • Aestheticism (Literature)
  • Dandies
  • Decadence (Literary movement)
  • Decoration and ornament
  • Intellectual life
  • Austria
  • Dandy's
  • Kleding
  • Identiteit
  • Kafka, Franz
  • Kafka, Franz
  • Art nouveau
  • Décadentisme
  • Décoration
  • Dandys
  • Esthétisme (littérature)
  • Autriche
  • Autriche
  • Kafka, Franz
  • Dekadenz
  • Dekadenzliteratur
  • Ästhetizismus
  • Lebensreform
  • Ästhetik
  • Fin de siècle
  • Kleidung
  • Identität
  • Österreich
  • Kafka, Franz
  • Dekadenz
  • Dekadenzliteratur
  • Fin de siècle
  • Identität
  • Kleidung
  • Lebensreform
  • Prosa
  • Ästhetik
  • Ästhetizismus
  • Österreich
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Kafka's clothes : ornament and aestheticism in the Habsburg fin de siècle, Mark M. Anderson
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-225) and index
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text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Extent
1 online resource (231 pages
Form of item
online
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1035930279
Label
Kafka's clothes : ornament and aestheticism in the Habsburg fin de siècle, Mark M. Anderson
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-225) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Extent
1 online resource (231 pages
Form of item
online
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1035930279

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