[PDF.03du] Violent Modernists: The Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature

Accounts of rape, murder, mutilation, and torture run like a bloodred thread through modernist literature in the German language. Previous accounts of German literary modernism have linked its fascination with violent destruction either to the militant avant-garde on the left or to fascist modernism on the right. Critics have noted that high modernists depicted violence through its impact on their own victimized protagonists. But by minimizing and ignoring the often d...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Violent Modernists: The Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature   |  Kai Evers. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.