TY - BOOK ID - 48264545 TI - Violent Modernists : The Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature PY - 2013 SN - 0810129302 0810129620 PB - Evanston, Illinois Northwestern University Press DB - UniCat KW - Literary Criticism / European / German KW - Literature KW - History and criticism KW - Appraisal of books KW - Books KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Criticism KW - Literary style KW - Appraisal KW - Evaluation KW - Germany KW - Musil KW - Kafka KW - Benjamin KW - Kraus KW - Canetti KW - Twentieth KW - Aesthetics KW - Destruction UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:48264545 AB - Kai Evers's Violent Modernists: The Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature develops a new understanding of German modernism that moves beyond the oversimplified dichotomy of an avant-garde prone to aggression on the one hand and a modernism opposed to violence on the other. Analyzing works by Robert Musil, Franz Kafka, Karl Kraus, Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti, and others, Evers argues that these authors are among the most innovative thinkers on violence and its impact on contemporary concepts of the self, history, and society. ER -