The anti-journalist : Karl Kraus and Jewish self-fashioning in fin-de-siècle Europe /


Paul Reitter.
Bok Tysk 2008 Paul. Reitter,· Electronic books.
Medvirkende
Utgitt
Chicago : : University of Chicago Press, , 2008.
Omfang
1 online resource (271 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - All that is solid melts into ink -- German Jews and the writing of modern life -- Karl Kraus and the Jewish self-hatred question -- Mirror-man -- Messianic journalism? Benjamin and Scholem read Die Fackel -- Conclusion: The afterlife of anti-journalism.. - In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage. Kraus's spectacularly hostile critiques often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists, which brought him a reputation as the quintessential self-hating Jew. The Anti-Journalist overturns this view with unprecedented force and sophistication, showing how Kraus's criticisms form the center of a radical model of German-Jewish self-fashioning, and how that model developed in concert with Kraus's modernist journalistic styl
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Dewey
ISBN
3503163581. - 9783503163588 : Pp. : ca. EUR 98.00 (DE), ca. EUR 100.80 (AT)

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