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Article: Shadow Lines: Austrian Literature from Freud to Kafka.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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Shadow Lines: Austrian Literature from Freud to Kafka. By Lorna Martens. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 1996. xiv + 291 pp. 35 [pounds sterling].
The immense political, literary, and intellectual ferment of fin-de-siecle Austria has repeatedly attracted synthetic, interdisciplinary treatment. Lorna Martens offers a stimulating perspective by charting the emergence of a new epistemological paradigm and exploring its impact on Austria's literary and intellectual culture. She argues that in the period between approximately 1890 and 1924, established notions of dialectical synthesis were superseded by a belief that unresolved and unresolvable dualisms ...