The Black Book: Karl Kraus's Etiquette
| dc.contributor.author | Norberg, Jakob | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-09-26T14:40:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-09-26T14:40:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The conduct book stakes out the boundaries of correct behavior, making instructions for self-management available to anyone who strives for easy social integration. Given its close relation to the mores of the educated classes, it is a rather unlikely genre to employ for the misanthrope looking to repudiate society. Yet in a series of articles in 1905/06 in his journal Die Fackel, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus alluded to this genre, sharpening its rules to the point of absurdity as a means to completely close down rather than facilitate societal exchange. In Kraus’s etiquette, bad manners come to include all manners. The study of this little-known project enables us to understand Kraus’s obsessive preoccupation with clichéd speech as a critical response to the pathologies of communal life around 1900. | |
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| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.relation.journal | Modern Austrian Literature | |
| dc.subject | Karl Kraus, Satire, Irony, Etiquette, Sociability, Misanthropy, Vienna, Austrian Literature | |
| dc.title | The Black Book: Karl Kraus's Etiquette | |
| dc.type | Journal article | |
| duke.description.issue | 2 | |
| duke.description.volume | 40 | |
| pubs.begin-page | 45 | |
| pubs.end-page | 65 |