Research Catalog

Title

Spaces for happiness in the twentieth-century German novel : Mann, Kafka, Hesse, Jünger / Alan Corkhill.

Author

Corkhill, Alan, 1948-

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2012.

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Holdings

Details

Description

vi, 203 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

German life and civilization ; v. 57

Uniform Title

German life and civilization v. 57.

Subject

• Mann, Thomas
• Kafka, Franz
• Hesse, Hermann
• Jünger, Ernst
• 1900-1999
• German fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Happiness in literature
• Philosophy in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-196) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Thomas Mann: competing models of happiness in Der Zauberberg -- Franz Kafka: sites of happiness and unhappiness -- Der process (1925): existential unhappiness -- Das schloss (1926): negotiating room for happiness -- Hermann Hesse: the quest for the happiness of self-knowledge -- Siddhartha (1922): towards the joy of flow -- Der Steppenwolf (1927): the pathology of happy unhappiness -- Das Glasperlenspiel (1943): educating for happiness -- Ernst Jünger: the technologization of happiness in Heliopolis.

ISBN

• 9783034307970 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 3034307977 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011039789

OCLC

• 755904549
• SCSB-12532386

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library