Kafka's Clothes - Ornament and Aestheticism in the Habsburg Fin de Siecle (Paperback, Revised)

This highly acclaimed study explores Kafka's early dandyism and interest in fashion, literary decadence, and the `superficial' spectacle of modern urban life as well as his subsequent repudiation of these phenomena in forging a literary identity as isolated, otherwordly `poet' of modern alienation. In its discussion of Jugendstil aesthetics, Otto Weininger's `egoless' woman, the Viennese critique of architectural ornament, the clothing-reform movement, anti-Semitism, and the question of Jewish-German writing, Kafka's Clothes paints a startlingly unconventional portrait of Kafka and Prague at the turn of the century.

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Clarendon Paperbacks
Release date:	December 1994
First published:	1995
Authors:	Mark M. Anderson (Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature)
Dimensions:	215 x 188 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	244
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-815907-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Fashion design Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-19-815907-2
Barcode:	9780198159070

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