Arpad Szakolczai

Permanent Liminality and Modernity (eBook, ePUB)

Analysing the Sacrificial Carnival through Novels

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive sociological study of the nature and dynamics of the modern world, through the use of a series of anthropological concepts, including the trickster, schismogenesis, imitation and liminality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317082170
• Artikelnr.: 46758570

Autorenporträt

Arpad Szakolczai is Professor of Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Max Weber and Michel Foucault: Parallel Life-Works, Reflexive Historical Sociology, The Genesis of Modernity, Sociology, Religion and Grace: A Quest for the Renaissance, and Comedy and the Public Sphere: The Re-birth of Theatre as Comedy and the Genealogy of the Modern Public Arena, and co-author of The Dissolution of Communist Power: The Case of Hungary.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Before WWI: Waiting for the Storm
1. Empires and their Collapse: Fin-de-siècle Vienna in Context
2. Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Promises and Realities
3. Novel Origins: Rilke's Notebooks of Malte and Hofmannsthal's Andreas
Part II. Suspended in the In-Between: Franz Kafka
4. Kafka's Sources and Insights: Theatre and Other Modes of Distorted
Communication
5. Kafka's Novels: In Between Theatre, Theology and Prophecy
6. The Zürau Notebooks: The Indestructible and the Way
Part III. After WWI: Hypermodernity as Sacrificial Carnival
7. Thomas Mann: Death in Venice and Magic Mountain
8. Karen Blixen: Carnival and Angelic Avengers
9. Hermann Broch: Sleepwalkers
10. Mikhail Bulgakov: Master and Margarita
11. Heimito von Doderer: Demons
12. Béla Hamvas: Carnival
Conclusion