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»Suddenness or epiphany – an expression of discontinuity and rupture – resists aesthetic integration. This argument is the centrepiece of Bohrer's collection of essays […]. The study examines a romantic and modernist literary phenomenon and traces its textual appearance in the works of early German Romantics – Schlegel, Schleiermacher and Kleist – through Nietzsche to such modernists as Proust, Joyce, Musil and Benjamin. Although Bohrer...
»Suddenness or epiphany – an expression of discontinuity and rupture – resists aesthetic integration. This argument is the centrepiece of Bohrer's collection of essays […]. The study examines a romantic and modernist literary phenomenon and traces its textual appearance in the works of early German Romantics – Schlegel, Schleiermacher and Kleist – through Nietzsche to such modernists as Proust, Joyce, Musil and Benjamin. Although Bohrer discusses the influence of the French poststructuralists Foucault and Derrida, by concentrating on the ›incommensurability‹ of fictional language, he ultimately develops his arguments from the literary texts themselves. As he concludes this study, Bohrer states that ›suddenness‹ transcends history and yet is tied to it, especially to the processes of acceleration typical of modernization since the industrial revolution.« (book description of the English edition published by Columbia UP)
Karl Heinz Bohrer, born in Cologne in 1932, was a literary critic, publisher, scientist and creator of numerous works focusing on the central ideas of Momentanism and »suddenness«. He worked as a secondary school teacher in Germany, England and the USA. In 2007, he was awarded the Heinrich Mann Prize and received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2014. Karl Heinz Bohrer died in London on August 4, 2021.
Karl Heinz Bohrer, born in Cologne in 1932, was a literary critic, publisher, scientist and creator of numerous works focusing on the central...
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