Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Empiricist Empires: Hofmannsthal's Domestic Orientalism
- 2 Empirical Mysticism and Imperial Mystique: Orientalism in Musil's Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless
- 3 The Sovereign Subject under Siege: Ethnology and Ethnocentrism in Kafka's “Description of a Struggle, “Jackals und Arabs,” and “In the Penal Colony”
- 4 The Contingent Continent: Kafka's China in “Beim Bau der chinesischen Mauer” and “Ein altes Blatt”
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Empiricist Empires: Hofmannsthal's Domestic Orientalism
- 2 Empirical Mysticism and Imperial Mystique: Orientalism in Musil's Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless
- 3 The Sovereign Subject under Siege: Ethnology and Ethnocentrism in Kafka's “Description of a Struggle, “Jackals und Arabs,” and “In the Penal Colony”
- 4 The Contingent Continent: Kafka's China in “Beim Bau der chinesischen Mauer” and “Ein altes Blatt”
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Imperial MessagesOrientalism as Self-Critique in the Habsburg 'Fin de Siècle', pp. 165 - 171Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2011