Imperial Messages : Orientalism as Self-Critique in the Habsburg Fin de Siècle


Robert. Lemon
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House , 2011
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Frontcover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1: Empiricist Empires: Hofmannsthal's Domestic Orientalism; 2: Empirical Mysticism and Imperial Mystique: Orientalism in Musil's Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless; 3: The Sovereign Subject under Siege: Ethnology and Ethnocentrism in Kafka's "Description of a Struggle, "Jackals und Arabs," and "In the Penal Colony"; 4: The Contingent Continent: Kafka's China in "Beim Bau der chinesischen Mauer" and "Ein altes Blatt"; CONCLUSION; WORKS CITED; INDEX; Backcover. - In recent years a debate has arisen on the applicability of postcolonial theory to Austria-Hungary. Some argue that the empire's lack of colonies renders colonialism and postcolonialism irrelevant, while others cite the quasi-colonial attitudes of the Vie
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Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, , 1874-1929 - Criticism and interpretation.
Kafka, Franz, , 1883-1924 - Criticism and interpretation.
Musil, Robert, , 1880-1942 - Criticism and interpretation.
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1571135006. - 9781571135001

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