The grace of misery
| Titel: | The grace of misery : Joseph Roth and the politics of exile, 1919-1939 / by Ilse Josepha Lazaroms |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Leiden : Brill, 2013 |
| Umfang: | XXXI, 194 Seiten : Illustrationen |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Brill's series in Jewish studies ; 47 |
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| ISBN: | 9789004234857 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Preface-Life on the Tip of a Pen
- p. xi
- The Legacy of Exile: A Biography of Pain
- p. xv
- The Interwar Quandary: Europe and the Jews
- p. xxii
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Telling a Life
- p. xxviii
- Chapter 1
- Mental Captivity. Re-imagining a Lost Heritage
- p. 1
- The Jewish Intellectual in Interwar Central Europe
- p. 2
- The Apolitical Weimar Intellectual and the Central European Tradition
- p. 2
- The Concept of the Jewish Intellectual
- p. 5
- Cultivating Marginality
- p. 11
- The Material Culture of Exile
- p. 14
- The Capitulation of the European Mind
- p. 19
- "All Roads Lead to Brody"
- p. 24
- Strawberries (1929, 1936)
- p. 28
- Conclusion
- p. 35
- Chapter 2
- Opening Up the Crypt. The Political Potential of Nostalgia
- p. 39
- Nostalgia
- p. 41
- Europe's "Jewish Orphans"
- p. 45
- Deconstructing Vienna
- p. 48
- Diasporic Identities
- p. 52
- The Emperor's Tomb (1938)
- p. 54
- Conclusion
- p. 63
- Chapter 3
- The Lamentations of an "Old Jew." The Artist As Exemplary Sufferer
- p. 67
- Exemplary Sufferers
- p. 68
- The Creation of Mendel Singer-Job (1930)
- p. 71
- A Questionable Fate: Hereditary Madness
- p. 76
- Narratives of Guilt
- p. 82
- Self-Narration, Part 1: The Suffering Jew
- p. 88
- Roads to Salvation-The Question of Justice
- p. 95
- Conclusion
- p. 98
- Chapter 4
- The Double Bind of Self-Narration. Jewish Identity and the Undercurrents of German-Jewish Modernity
- p. 101
- Theories of Non-Belonging
- p. 103
- Self-inflicted Homelessness
- p. 105
- Self-Narration, Part 2: The Austrian Officer
- p. 108
- Self-Narration, Part 3: The Hotel Patriot
- p. 111
- Literary Cacophony, Linguistic Belonging
- p. 117
- The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1940)
- p. 125
- Conclusion
- p. 130
- Chapter 5
- Prophecies of Unrest. Interwar Europe under an Apocalyptic Lens
- p. 133
- On European Shores
- p. 135
- Prophetic Encounters
- p. 141
- The Antichrist (1934)
- p. 145
- A Universalist in Paris
- p. 152
- Quandaries of a Solitary Mind
- p. 158
- Conclusion
- p. 163
- Postscript
- p. 167
- Bibliography
- p. 171
- Index
- p. 187
