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- catalog abstract ""'One should either be a work of art, or wear one', proclaimed Oscar Wilde at the end of the nineteenth century; 'I am made of literature, I am nothing else, and cannot be anything else', Franz Kafka proclaimed a brief decade later. Between these two claims lies the largely unexplored region in which the European decadent movement turned into the modernist avant-garde." "In this original historical study, Mark Anderson explores Kafka's early dandyism, his 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 the isolated, otherworldly 'poet' of modern alienation. Rather than posit a break between these two personae, Anderson charts the historical continuities between the young Kafka and the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. The book demonstrates how clothing functions as a semi-private code of meaning in his literary works and the extent to which the aestheticist notion of becoming the work of art haunts Kafka's conception of writing throughout his life." "The result is a startlingly unconventional portrait of Kafka and Prague at the turn of the century, involving such issues as 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b3569615.
- catalog coverage "Austria Intellectual life 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "Austria Intellectual life.".
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description ""'One should either be a work of art, or wear one', proclaimed Oscar Wilde at the end of the nineteenth century; 'I am made of literature, I am nothing else, and cannot be anything else', Franz Kafka proclaimed a brief decade later. Between these two claims lies the largely unexplored region in which the European decadent movement turned into the modernist avant-garde." "In this original historical study, Mark Anderson explores Kafka's early dandyism, his 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 the isolated, otherworldly 'poet' of modern alienation. Rather than posit a break between these two personae, Anderson charts the historical continuities between the young Kafka and the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. The book demonstrates how clothing functions as a semi-private code of meaning in his literary works and the extent to which the aestheticist notion of becoming the work of art haunts Kafka's conception of writing throughout his life." "The result is a startlingly unconventional portrait of Kafka and Prague at the turn of the century, involving such issues as 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-225) and index.".
- catalog extent "231 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Kafka's clothes.".
- catalog identifier "0198151624 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Kafka's clothes.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Kafka's clothes.".
- catalog spatial "Austria Intellectual life 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Austria Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "833/.912 20".
- catalog subject "Aestheticism (Literature)".
- catalog subject "Dandies.".
- catalog subject "Decadence (Literary movement)".
- catalog subject "Decoration and ornament Art nouveau.".
- catalog subject "Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 Contemporary Austria.".
- catalog subject "Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PT2621.A26 Z5734 1992".
- catalog title "Kafka's clothes : ornament and aestheticism in the Habsburg fin de siècle / Mark M. Anderson.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".