The Dear Purchase - A Theme in German Modernism (Hardcover, New)

Completed shortly before Professor Stern's death in 1991, this book studies works by twelve major writers of German modernism, including Thomas Mann, Musil, Brecht and Rilke, in relation to the history of the twentieth century. It explores the theme of the "dear purchase," an ideal of moral strenuousness and sacrifice seen as characteristic of Germany after Nietzsche, and reveals the underlying flaw in this notion as a self-justifying value. Finally, it juxtaposes Mann's Felix Krull and Kafka's story "Josephine" as a deliverance from the value-system of the title.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in German
Release date:	February 1995
First published:	1995
Authors:	J.P. Stern
Foreword by:	Nicholas Boyle
Dimensions:	222 x 144 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	468
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-43330-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	0-521-43330-4
Barcode:	9780521433303

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