Ingenieurssolipsismen in Großstadtutopien der 1920er Jahre
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14711236 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rainer Godel (0009-0009-5087-464X, Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung , Alexandraweg 28 , Darmstadt , Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 371-396 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0340-4528 • E-ISSN: 1865-9128 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/iasl-2024-0019 |
| OpenAlex | W4404691925 |
| Language | DE |
This article provides an analysis of two dystopian novels: Yevgeny Zamyatin’s Мы ( We , 1924/25) and Thea von Harbou’s Metropolis (1925/26). Both novels stand out by engineers as protagonists. Their respective behaviour is driven by their use of building powers, their creative fantasy, but also by their ambition to rule within a seemingly well-ordered world. However, at the diegetic level, a fundamental ambivalence between the positive understanding of the engineer’s contribution to progress and his restricted and selfish solipsism remains unsolved
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Art history · Dystopia · Epistemology · Fantasy · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Solipsism · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · German Literature and Culture Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Spatial and Cultural Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |