From Early Modernism to the Late Avant-garde Movement

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Content xi
4. Part 1. Culture and its Narratives
5. Identity, Alterity and the Work of the Narrative 3
6. The Hidden Narratives 20
7. On the Narratology of Cultural and Collective Memory 42
8. Romanticism and Nationalism 58
9. Polyphem’s Children 76
10. Murder and Monotheism 97
11. Part 2. Space, Time and the Global
12. Space and Borders 111
13. Time in Modern Cultural Analysis 128
14. Walter Benjamin and the Translational Turn 135
15. The Arts and the Split of Time 147
16. Part 3. The Heritage of Classical Modernism: Broch, Canetti, Musil, Kafka
17. The Disappearing of Ruins 163
18. Fear in Culture 173
19. Mass Hysteria and the Physics of the Crowd 187
20. Musil’s Version of Round Dance in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften 204
21. From Early Modernism to the Late Avant-garde Movement 211
22. The Broken Mirror 225
23. Images of America, Made in Austria 239
24. Austrian Literature in a Trans-cultural Context 248
25. Bibliography and References 264
26. Original place of publication of single chapters 276