Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Modernism and the Experience of Modernity 1
5. Part I. The Avant-Garde: Politics and the Text
6. Speaking the Other's Silence: Franz Jung's Der Fall Gross 19
7. Carl Einstein; or, The Postmodern Transformation of Modernism 36
8. Written Right Across Their Faces: Ernst Junger' s Fascist Modernism 60
9. The Loss of Reality: Gottfried Benn's Early Prose 81
10. Each One as She May: Melanctha, Tonka, Nadja 95
11. PART II. Modernist Cities: Paris-New York-Berlin
12. Paris/Childhood: The Fragmented Body in Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 113
13. Kafka and New York: Notes on a Traveling Narrative 142
14. The City as Narrator: The Modern Text in Alfred Dahlin's Berlin Alexanderplatz 162
15. PART III. Writing and Modernist Thought
16. Woman and Modernity: The [Life]Styles of Lou Andreas-Salomé 183
17. A View Through the Red Window: Ernst Bloch's Spuren 200
18. Walter Benjamin's Collector: The Fate of Modern Experience 216
19. Index 241