Ein kleiner, schwarzer Punkt am weisslichen Himmel: Antarctica & Ice in German Expressionism

• Main Author: Essigmann, Joy M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange 2010
• Subjects: Antarctica; Modernism; Nietzsche; Georg Heym; Robert Musil; German Literature; Antarctic; Bourgeois; South Pole; Antarc*; Antarktis*; South pole
• Online Access: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/703; https://trace.tennessee.edu/context/utk_gradthes/article/1724/viewcontent/Essigmann_Master_s_Thesis_August_2010.pdf

This work explores a fascinating and disturbing literary trope found in select German Expressionist prose in the years 1910-1920. Key Expressionist-era authors, including Georg Heym, Robert Musil, Egmont Colerus and Franz Kafka employed Antarctic and ice metaphors in their poetry and prose to exempl...