I-VI -- Introduction: Eurydice Lost -- I. The Modernist Turn -- II. Viennese Baroque: Temporality and Allegory in Die Schlafwandler of Hermann Broch -- III. The Cloud of Polonius: Rewriting Reality in Robert Musil's Mann ohne Eigenschaften -- IV. The Lamentation of Josef K.: Conscience and Irony in Kafka's Prozeß -- V. In the Crystal Garden: The Replenishment of Art and the Ecology of Man in Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus -- VI. Epilogue: The Quixotic Word -- Bibliography