“The Deeper Nature of My German”: Mother Tongue, Subjectivity, and the Voice of the Other in Elias Canetti’s Autobiography

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Canetti’s Principal Works ix
4. Abbreviations of Works Frequently Cited xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Canetti’s Global Significance
7. Good-Bye to All That: Elias Canetti’s Obituaries 25
8. Writing and Language
9. “The Deeper Nature of My German”: Mother Tongue, Subjectivity, and the Voice of the Other in Elias Canetti’s Autobiography 45
10. Elias Canetti’s Attitude to Writers and Writings 61
11. Canetti and the Question of Genre 89
12. The Works: Themes and Genres
13. “The Faultiest Expressions Have the Greatest Attraction”: Elias Canetti’s Proverbial Aphorisms 107
14. Canetti’s Aufzeichnungen 123
15. Staging a Critique of Modernism: Elias Canetti’s Plays 137
16. “Gute Reisende sind herzlos”:1 Canetti in Marrakesh 157
17. Space in Elias Canetti’s Autobiographical Trilogy 175
18. Philosophy and Social Thought
19. Canetti and Nietzsche: An Introduction to Masse und Macht 201
20. Images of Male and Female in Canetti’s Fictional, Autobiographical, and Theoretical Work 217
21. Canetti’s Final Frontier: The Animal 239
22. Historical Contexts
23. Canetti, Roustchouk, and Bulgaria: The Impact of Origin on Canetti’s Work 261
24. Elias Canetti’s Response to the Shoah: Masse und Macht 289
25. Works Cited 313
26. Notes on the Contributors 333
27. Index 337