Understanding Robert Musil
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Understanding Robert Musil
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Author : Allen Thiher
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2009
Understanding Robert Musil written by Allen Thiher and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
Deft analysis of the fiction, theater, and essays of the author of The Man without Qualities In this critical introduction to the major works of Austrian modernist writer Robert Musil (1880-1942), Allen Thiher offers deft analysis of Musil's short fiction, theater, and essays, and his major novel, The Man without Qualities. Thiher maps Musil's development as a writer, illustrating how his work evolved in response to catastrophic historical events such as World War I, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Hitler's seizure of power. From this historical context, Thiher traces how Musil began his career by writing a prescient first novel about ideological developments in German culture and, at the same time, a doctoral thesis on scientific epistemology. Following his service in World War I, Musil began to view writing as his vocation and, during this early period in his literary career, he produced short fiction, plays, and some of the most interesting essays on politics, ethics, and literature to be published during the Weimar era. In exploring these writings as well as The Man without Qualities, a work left unfinished upon Musil's death in exile during World War II, Thiher's study plumbs the depths of Musil's ambition and accomplishments and presents a concise interpretation of the lasting significance of the writer's interrogations of the foundations of modern European culture.
Robert Musil And The Question Of Science
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Author : Tim Mehigan
language : en
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Release Date : 2020
Robert Musil And The Question Of Science written by Tim Mehigan and has been published by Camden House (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Literary Criticism categories.
A major new study of Robert Musil by one of the world's leading Musil scholars. Musil's extraordinary works, the study reveals, emerged from the problem of the "two cultures."
Intimate Ties
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Author : Robert Musil
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2019-05-28
Intimate Ties written by Robert Musil and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-28 with Fiction categories.
A master of high modernist literature explores female sexuality and desire through the eyes of two women—one, married and unfaithful; the other, caught in a love triangle—in these two erotic novellas First published in 1911, Intimate Ties is Robert Musil’s second book, consisting of two novellas, “The Culmination of Love” and “The Temptation of Silent Veronica”. Each revolves around a troubled woman in the throes of her sexual and romantic woes, as their memories of the past return to influence their present desires. Musil tracks the psyche of his protagonists in a blurring of impressions that is reflected in his experimental prose. Intimate Ties offers the reader an early glimpse of the high modernist style Musil would perfect in his magnum opus The Man Without Qualities.
Robert Musil And The Nonmodern
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Author : Mark M. Freed
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-04-28
Robert Musil And The Nonmodern written by Mark M. Freed and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Positions Robert Musil's theory and writings within recent critical accounts of modernism and brings him into dialogue with continental philosophy.
A Companion To The Works Of Robert Musil
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Author : Philip Payne
language : en
Publisher: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Release Date : 2007
A Companion To The Works Of Robert Musil written by Philip Payne and has been published by Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
A fresh and extensive look at the works of the great Austrian novelist in the context of the German and Austrian culture of his time.
The Void Of Ethics
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Author : Patrizia McBride
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2006
The Void Of Ethics written by Patrizia McBride and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
In a pluralistic society without absolute standards of judgment, how can an individual live a moral life? This is the question Robert Musil (1880-1942), an Austrian-born engineer and mathematician turned writer, asked in essays, plays, and fiction that grapple with the moral ambivalence of modern life. Though unfinished, his monumental novel of Vienna in the febrile days before World War I, The Man without Qualities, is identified by German scholars as the most important literary work of the twentieth century. In a fresh examination of his essays, notebooks, and fiction, Patrizia McBride reconstructs Musil's understanding of ethics as a realm of experience that eludes language and thought. After situating Musil's work within its contemporary cultural-philosophical horizon, as well as the historical background of rising National Socialism, McBride shows how the writer's notion of ethics as a void can be understood as a coherent and innovative response to the crises haunting Europe after World War I. She explores how Musil rejected the outdated, rationalistic morality of humanism, while simultaneously critiquing the irrationalism of contemporary art movements, including symbolism, impressionism, and expressionism. Her work reveals Musil's remarkable relevance today-particularly those aspects of his thought that made him unfashionable in his own time: a commitment to fighting ethical fundamentalism and a literary imagination that validates the pluralistic character of modern life.
The World As Metaphor In Robert Musil S The Man Without Qualities
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Author : Genese Grill
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2012
The World As Metaphor In Robert Musil S The Man Without Qualities written by Genese Grill and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil's commitment to the artist's role in re-creating the world. Robert Musil, known to be a scientific and philosophical thinker, was committed to aesthetics as a process of experimental creation of an ever-shifting reality. Musil wanted, above all, to be a creative writer, and obsessively engaged in almost endless deferral via variations and metaphoric possibilities in his novel project, The Man without Qualities. This lifelong process of writing is embodied in the unfinished novel by a recurring metaphor of self-generating de-centered circle worlds. The present study analyzes this structure with reference to Musil's concepts of the utopia of the Other Condition, Living and Dead Words, Specific and Non-Specific Emotions, Word Magic, andthe Still Life. In contrast to most recent studies of Musil, it concludes that the extratemporal metaphoric experience of the Other Condition does not fail, but rather constitutes the formal and ethical core of Musil's novel. Thefirst study to utilize the newly published Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's literary remains (a searchable annotated text), The World as Metaphor offers a close reading of variations and text genesis, shedding light not onlyon Musil's novel, but also on larger questions about the modernist artist's role and responsibility in consciously re-creating the world. Genese Grill holds a PhD in Germanic Literatures and Languages from the GraduateSchool and University Center of the City University of New York.
Robert Musil And The Nonmodern
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Author : Mark M. Freed
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-04-28
Robert Musil And The Nonmodern written by Mark M. Freed and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities is widely recognized as a monument of modernist literature alongside Remembrance of Things Past and Ulysses. But while Musil is a major scholarly industry in the German-speaking world, critical attention from English-speaking scholars remains disproportionately small. Moreover, there has been little engagement with Musil's contribution to cultural theory from those working outside literary studies. Freed brings Musil into dialogue with such critics of the modern as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Lyotard and argues that Musil's theory and literary performance of essayism constitutes a strategy of nonmodernity: that is, an engagement with the problems of modernity that does not re-inscribe the distinctions on which modernism grounded itself. This book not only offers an understanding of Musil's essayism made possible by Latour's account of modernity: it also articulates what the discursive and cultural project of nonmodernity might look like. The book thereby introduces Musil scholars and those working in the problematics of postmodernism to one another's interests.
Posthumous Papers Of A Living Author
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Author : Robert Musil
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2012-04-21
Posthumous Papers Of A Living Author written by Robert Musil and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-21 with Fiction categories.
This collection of exploratory pieces, short stories, and reflections was originally published in Zurich in 1936. It was the last volume Robert Musil published before his sudden death in 1942. Musil had begun to fathom the impossibility of com- pleting his monumental masterpiece The Man Without Qualities and this volume reveals a radically different aspect of his work. Musil observes a fly’s tragic struggle with flypaper, the laughter of a horse; he peers through microscopes and telescopes, dissecting both large and small. Musil’s quest for the essential is a voyage into the minute.
Young T Rless
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Author : Robert Musil
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Young T Rless written by Robert Musil and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Adolescence categories.