Alfred Döblin
Monsters, Cyborgs and Berliners 1900-1933
Robert Craig
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Legenda 10 September 2021 • 218pp ISBN: 978-1-781889-26-8 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-781889-27-5 (paperback, 19 February 2024 ISBN: 978-1-781889-28-2 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR ‘If you’re satisfied with yourself, beware of Döblin.’ It was with this temptation for brave souls that Günter Grass closed his tribute on the tenth anniversary of the great modernist’s death. Alfred Döblin is best known for his city masterpiece of 1929, Berlin Alexanderplatz. But the journey to the ‘Alex’ takes us along pathways both less familiar and every bit as intriguing. In the decades before his flight into exile in 1933, this medical doctor-cum-writer broke new ground both as an Expressionist storyteller and an author of experimental historical and science fiction. Not only that, but he made radical contributions to poetics, aesthetics and nature philosophy. The focus of this innovative study, one of the first of its kind in English, is a thorny and intractable relationship that perennially fascinated Döblin: that of nature and the self. Robert Craig shows how his eclectic works before 1933 traced out an evolving dialectic between the human and the natural, and between the subject and its forms and modes of embodiment. The constellations that emerged remain as illuminating as they are unsettling and discomfiting. Robert Craig teaches German and English literary and cultural studies at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität in Bamberg.
For a contents listing, see this volume at JSTOR. Bibliography entry: Craig, Robert, Alfred Döblin: Monsters, Cyborgs and Berliners 1900-1933, Germanic Literatures, 20 (Legenda, 2021) First footnote reference: 35 Robert Craig, Alfred Döblin: Monsters, Cyborgs and Berliners 1900-1933, Germanic Literatures, 20 (Legenda, 2021), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Craig, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Craig, Robert. 2021. Alfred Döblin: Monsters, Cyborgs and Berliners 1900-1933, Germanic Literatures, 20 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Craig 2021: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Craig 2021: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up a free ipage® Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Alfred-Döblin www.mhra.org.uk/publications/gl-20 |
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