Imperial messages
Subtitle: Orientalism as self-critique in the Habsburg fin de siècle
By: Robert Lemon
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9781571135001
Subjects: Orientalism in literature; East and West in literature; Austrian fiction; Orientalism; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-163) and index.
Table of contents: title: Empiricist empires: Hofmannsthal's domestic Orientalism; title: Empirical mysticism and imperial mystique: Orientalism in Musil's Die Verwirrungen des Zoglings Torless; title: Sovereign subject under siege: ethnology and ethnocentrism in Kafka's "Description of a struggle, "Jackals und Arabs," and "In the penal colony"; title: Contingent continent: Kafka's China in "Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer" and "Ein altes Blatt".