The Author: Martin Travers (b.1952) was educated at the universities of East Anglia, Tübingen and Cambridge, and teaches in the School of Arts, Media and Culture, Griffith University, Brisbane. He has published widely in the areas of German and European literature, and is at present completing The Hour That Breaks, a biography of Gottfried Benn.

«...it is refreshing to find a study so seriously concerned with the close reading of poems on their own terms, and Travers's lucid and persuasive analyses will prove indispensable for readers attempting to make sense of Benn's often cryptic German [...]. This is a book one can profitably dip into.» (Helen Bridge, Modern Language Review)

• Contents: Gottfried Benn: Text and Selfhood – Autopsy of the Subject: The Morgue Cycle – «Shadows and the Flood»: Gottfried Benn and Expressionism – Becoming: Rausch as Episteme – Nihil: In Darkness Living – Invocations: The Poetry of the Primal Visage – The Overcoming of Modernity: A Fateful Quest – «Now there is no more mercy; now comes the night»: The Poetry of Inner Emigration – The Will to Form: An Aesthetic Resolution – Retrospect: The Demarcated Self.

The Author: Martin Travers (b.1952) was educated at the universities of East Anglia, Tübingen and Cambridge, and teaches in the School of Arts, Media and Culture, Griffith University, Brisbane. He has published widely in the areas of German and European literature, and is at present completing The Hour That Breaks, a biography of Gottfried Benn.

«...it is refreshing to find a study so seriously concerned with the close reading of poems on their own terms, and Travers's lucid and persuasive analyses will prove indispensable for readers attempting to make sense of Benn's often cryptic German [...]. This is a book one can profitably dip into.» (Helen Bridge, Modern Language Review)

• Contents: Gottfried Benn: Text and Selfhood – Autopsy of the Subject: The Morgue Cycle – «Shadows and the Flood»: Gottfried Benn and Expressionism – Becoming: Rausch as Episteme – Nihil: In Darkness Living – Invocations: The Poetry of the Primal Visage – The Overcoming of Modernity: A Fateful Quest – «Now there is no more mercy; now comes the night»: The Poetry of Inner Emigration – The Will to Form: An Aesthetic Resolution – Retrospect: The Demarcated Self.

The Author: Martin Travers (b.1952) was educated at the universities of East Anglia, Tübingen and Cambridge, and teaches in the School of Arts, Media and Culture, Griffith University, Brisbane. He has published widely in the areas of German and European literature, and is at present completing The Hour That Breaks, a biography of Gottfried Benn.

«...it is refreshing to find a study so seriously concerned with the close reading of poems on their own terms, and Travers's lucid and persuasive analyses will prove indispensable for readers attempting to make sense of Benn's often cryptic German [...]. This is a book one can profitably dip into.» (Helen Bridge, Modern Language Review)

• Contents: Gottfried Benn: Text and Selfhood – Autopsy of the Subject: The Morgue Cycle – «Shadows and the Flood»: Gottfried Benn and Expressionism – Becoming: Rausch as Episteme – Nihil: In Darkness Living – Invocations: The Poetry of the Primal Visage – The Overcoming of Modernity: A Fateful Quest – «Now there is no more mercy; now comes the night»: The Poetry of Inner Emigration – The Will to Form: An Aesthetic Resolution – Retrospect: The Demarcated Self.