The Modern Language Review, October 1st, 2005
Beyond Nihilism: Gottfried Benn's Postmodernist Poetics. By SUSAN RAY. (Studies in Modern German Literature, 96) Oxford, Bern, Brussels, Frankfurt a.M., New York, and Vienna: Peter Lang. 2003. 205 pp. 42.80 [euro]; 26 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 3-03910-006-8. Susan Ray aims to recast and enhance our understanding of Gottfried Benn through a study of his poetics in select prose pieces, autobiographical works, and essays on aesthetic theories. She shows how these foreshadowed ideas' currently identified with structuralism' (p. 7), and with deconstruction and its aftermath. More specifically, she a...
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