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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
andererseits - Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies: Modernism, Kafka and Thomas Mann: Some Thoughts
Beteiligte:
Robertson, Ritchie
Erschienen:
transcript Verlag, 2024
Erschienen in:andererseits - Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies
Sprache:
Nicht zu entscheiden
DOI:
10.14361/9783839469811-026
ISSN:
2941-735X;
2162-9242
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<jats:p>In these reflections on Stephen Dowden's book Modernism and Mimesis, the author evaluates the argument that, if modernist art is difficult, that is because it is disconcertingly simple. Modernism aims to strip away conventional responses and enable us again to experience the world freshly. There is no hidden meaning to be sought via interpretation. The art of Kafka, Celan, and many others confirms the dictum that 'a poem should not mean but be'. Dowden's use of 'mimesis', derived from Gadamer, not from Auerbach, may be found confusing, but he substantiates his thesis impressively by discussing the ultra-modernist art produced by Mann's fictional composer in Doktor Faustus.</jats:p>