Imperial messages : Orientalism as self-critique in the Habsburg fin de siècle /
Lemon, Robert,1971-
Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-163) and index.
Empiricist empires: Hofmannsthal's domestic Orientalism -- Empirical mysticism and imperial mystique: Orientalism in Musil's Die Verwirrungen des Zoglings Torless -- Sovereign subject under siege: ethnology and ethnocentrism in Kafka's "Description of a struggle, "Jackals und Arabs," and "In the penal colony" -- Contingent continent: Kafka's China in "Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer" and "Ein altes Blatt".
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929
Musil, Robert, 1880-1942
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
Orientalism in literature.
Orientalism.
East and West in literature.
Austrian fiction
Austrian fiction