Karl Kraus A Viennese Critic of the Twentieth Century [Paperback]

I Introduction. Life, Work and Thought.- Early Life (1)  Die Fackel (1)  Lectures (2)  Associates (5)  Es capism in the thirties (5)  Krauss works (11)  Poems (12)  Plays (15)  Epigrams and aphorisms (18)  Glossen (18)  Polemics (19).- II The Absolute Value of Language.- Language was central to Kraus (21)  Contemporary view of language (21) Absolute value of language (21) Content and form (23)  Importance of literal meanings (23)  Unmaskings (24)  Relationship to language (25)  Mysticism (26)  Reverence (27)  Languages (27)  Opposition to change (29)  Heine and the German language (29)  Criticism of the language of others (31)  Austrian German (32)  Clich? phrases (32)  Language of the Jews (33)  Krauss own language (34)  Jokes about weaknesses (36)  Personal attacks to be viewed as art (37)  The satirist as counterpart of the poet (37)  Method (40)  Too much bitterness for satire (40)  Quotations (41)  Picturesque expressions (41)  Humor through surprise (42)  Humor by contrast (43)  Attraction due to wit (44)  Humor in language (44)  Claim of superiority (44)  Perishability of linguistic humor (45)  Krauss utterances on his own writing (45)  Language as judge of good and evil (45).- III Literature, Literary Figures, and Criticism.- View of literature not purely aesthetic (48)  Main criticism is commercialism of writers (48)  Die demolierte Literatur (48)  Literature as another moneymaking racket (49)  Pretense of refinement (50)  Favored Biedermeier (51)  Emphasis on language (51)  Necessity of great poetrys being free from causal relationships (52)  Poetry and madness (52)  Inferiority of the novel (55)  Extremeness of his views (56)  Incidental references to favorite authors (56)  Acceptance and rejection of writers (57)  Rejection of authors on nonessential grounds (59)  Criticism of contemporaries (59)  Altenberg (60)  Nestroy (61)  Wedekinds and Krauss similarity to Nestroy (62)  Nestroy and Hel##