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Author:

Lemon, Robert, 1971-

Title:

Imperial messages : Orientalism as self-critique in the Habsburg fin de siècle / Robert Lemon.

Publisher:

Camden House,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xi, 171 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Orientalism in literature.
Orientalism.
East and West in literature.
Austrian fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Austrian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von,--1874-1929--Criticism and interpretation.
Musil, Robert,--1880-1942--Criticism and interpretation.
Kafka, Franz,--1883-1924--Criticism and interpretation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-163) and index.

Contents:

Empiricist empires: Hofmannsthal's domestic Orientalism -- Empirical mysticism and imperial mystique: Orientalism in Musil's Die Verwirrungen des Zoglings Torless -- Sovereign subject under siege: ethnology and ethnocentrism in Kafka's "Description of a struggle, "Jackals und Arabs," and "In the penal colony" -- Contingent continent: Kafka's China in "Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer" and "Ein altes Blatt".

Series:

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

ISBN:

1571135006 (alk. paper)
9781571135001 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)663952879

LCCN:

2010053203

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)