Imperial messages : Orientalism as self-critique in the Habsburg fin de siècle / Robert Lemon
- Author:
- Lemon, Robert, 1971-
- Published:
- Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2011.
- Physical Description:
- 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- Empiricist empires: Hofmannsthal's domestic Orientalism -- Empirical mysticism and imperial mystique: Orientalism in Musil's Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless -- The 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".
- Subject(s):
- Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929—Criticism and interpretation
- Musil, Robert, 1880-1942—Criticism and interpretation
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924—Criticism and interpretation
- Orientalism in literature
- Orientalism
- East and West in literature
- Austrian fiction—19th century—History and criticism
- Austrian fiction—20th century—History and criticism
- ISBN:
- 9781571135001 (alk. paper)
1571135006 (alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-163) and index.
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