Article: Rudolf Kassner and Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Criticism as Art: The Reception of Pre-Raphaelitism in fin de siecle Vienna.(Review)

Rudolf Kassner and Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Criticism as Art: The Reception of Pre-Raphaelitism in fin de siecle Vienna. By STEVE RIZZA. (Tubinger Studien zur deutschen Literatur, 16) Frankfurt a.M.: Lang. 1997. 291 pp. 34 [pounds sterling].

Hofmannsthal's early essays and Der Tor und der Tod are used to support a detailed analysis of Rudolf Kassner's short story 'Sonnengnade', his dissertation 'Der ewige Jude in der Dichtung', and his study of nineteenth-century English poets and painters Die Mystik, die Kunstler und das Leben. Steve Rizza narrates early contacts between the two writers and sets Hofmannsthal's essays on English art in context with the aesthetic aims ...

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