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Narrative Structure in Wilhelm Raabe's Die Chronik Der Sperlingsgasse
Av Charlotte L Goedsche, Peter D. G. Brown
Inbunden, 1989
478 kr
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This investigation is the first book devoted exclusively to Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse (1854-55). Raabe's first work is widely recognized as a precursor to his later masterpieces and anticipates developments in the modern novel, but misreadings and contradictions abound in the secondary …
Beyond Nihilism
Gottfried Benn’s Postmodernist Poetics
Av Susan Ray, Peter D. G. Brown
Häftad, 2003
644 kr
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The ideas underlying Benn’s Ausdruckswelt not only anticipate and parallel many of the assumptions now current in recent trends in literary criticism; they also disclose their ultimate limitations. Benn’s poetics were founded on the intellectual crises of the early years of the twentieth century. …
Hans Friedrich Blunck
Poet and Nazi Collaborator, 1888–1961
Av W. Scott Hoerle, Peter D. G. Brown
Häftad, 2003
961 kr
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Which literary traditions helped carry the Nazis to power? In which parts of Germany were these traditions strongest? This study answers these questions by examining the life and career of one of the Third Reich’s most influential literati, the northern German poet Hans Friedrich Blunck …
Reading Rilke’s Orphic Identity
Av Erika M. Nelson, Peter D. G. Brown
Häftad, 2005
931 kr
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This study of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) examines the poet’s understanding of the malleable nature of identity, while addressing the question of Rilke’s place in literary history. In line with contemporary literary theory which views the «self» as a societal «construction» and strategic …
Cultural Confessionalism
Literary Resistance and the "Bekennende Kirche"
Av Grant Henley, Peter D. G. Brown
Häftad, 2007
555 kr
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Pastor Martin Niemöller, popular author Ernst Wiechert, and the young theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer were well known in the public sphere in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. As the decade of the 1930s progressed each of these figures became a vocal opponent of National Socialism. In the …
Eros and Thanatos
A Psycho-Literary Investigation of Walter Vogt’s Life and Works
Av Bennett I. Enowitch, Peter D. G. Brown
Häftad, 2005
776 kr
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Walter Vogt, the Swiss psychiatrist and author (1927-1988), can be considered a gadfly in the Swiss medical profession and a paradox in the Swiss literary arena. This ‘writing doctor’ shocked the Swiss medical establishment with a scathing exposé in his 1965 novel, Wüthrich, and then continued to …
Luise Buechner
A Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary Feminist
Av Cordelia Scharpf, Peter D. G. Brown
Häftad, 2008
1188 kr
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This first book-length biography with discussions of select writings by Luise Büchner (1821-1877) draws on her commentary of events available in letters and writings. A close reading of Büchner’s fictional writings reveals that she both entertained and educated her readers. Her pedagogical messages …
Mysticism as Modernity
Nationalism and the Irrational in Hermann Hesse, Robert Musil and Max Frisch
Av William Crooke, Peter D. G. Brown
Häftad, 2008
525 kr
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This work reconsiders the connections between mysticism, nationalism and modernity in twentieth-century German cultures. Disengaging mysticism from occultism, the author creates a new space for reconsidering mysticism’s links to larger structures of modernity already at play at the turn of the …
The Front Matters: Artistic Presentation of Maria Sibylla Merian
Av Cecilia Pick, Peter D. G. Brown
Häftad
777 kr
Kommande
Vier Pole Expressionistischer Prosa
Kasimir Edschmid, Carl Einstein, Alfred Doeblin, August Stramm
Av Joseph L. Brockington, Peter D. G. Brown
Inbunden, 1988
539 kr
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Diese Studie untersucht die formalen Prinzipien der Darstellung von der Intensitaet individueller Erfahrung in exemplarischer expressionistischer Kurzprosa von Kasimir Edschmid, Carl Einstein, Alfred Doeblin und August Stramm. Auf Grund eingehender Analysen der Erzaehlformen dieser Werke sowie …
Achim Von Arnim's Novellensammlung 1812
Balance and Mediation
Av Thomas Paul Bonfiglio, Peter D. G. Brown
Inbunden, 1987
582 kr
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Working within the context of current Arnim studies, Bonfiglio demonstrates how Novellensammlung 1812 is a coherent opus that allegorically represents a cosmology structured by Arnim's early work in physics along with his reception of Schelling's Naturphilosophie. These influences laid the …
Romantic Heritage of Marxism
A Study of East German Love Poetry
Av Boria Sax, Peter D. G. Brown
Inbunden, 1987
473 kr
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This book traces the roots of East German poetry in the tradition of German Romanticism. In the initial chapters, it examines the way in which Romantic traditions have exerted a continuing influence on Marxist theory. It continues with a close analysis of poems by leading East German authors such …
Rilke and Russia
A Re-evaluation
Av Daria Reshetylo-Rothe, Peter D. G. Brown
Inbunden, 1990
834 kr
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The book presents a comprehensive study of the effect of Rainer Maria Rilke's Russian experience upon his creative output. Its focus is the analysis of the specific works of Rilke in which Russian or Ukrainian influence is demonstrated. In order to reach its conclusions the study scrutinizes …
Romanwerk von Ingeborg Drewitz
Av Gerhild Bru Ggemann Rogers, Peter D. G. Brown
Inbunden, 1989
519 kr
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In ihren acht Berliner Romanen hat Ingeborg Drewitz die Auswirkung historisch-politischer Ereignisse der Nazijahre, der Nachkriegszeit und der Gegenwart an einer Vielfalt von Einzelschicksalen dargestellt. Die Mehrzahl ihrer Hauptpersonen sowie auch viele Nebengestalten sind einsame Menschen, die …
Negative Spring
Crisis Imagery in the Works of Brentano, Lenau, Rilke, and T.S. Eliot
Av David B Dickens, Peter D. G. Brown
Inbunden, 1988
504 kr
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Symbolic statement in poetry assumes many forms, from readily understood «open» symbols to private or «closed» ones with highly personal meanings. «Negative spring,» the poet's rejection of what has traditionally been a joyous time of year, makes such a personal statement. This book examines a …
Dilemma der Kunst
Zur Kunst- und Kuenstlerproblematik in der Deutschsprachigen Prosa Nach 1945
Av Juergen Kleist, Peter D. G. Brown
Inbunden, 1990
582 kr
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In diesem Buch wird anhand von acht Prosatexten aus der deutschsprachigen Literatur die Weiterentwicklung der Kunst- und Kuenstlerproblematik nach 1945 dargestellt. Es wird gezeigt, dass diese Entwicklung in drei Phasen verlief: In der zweiten Haelfte der vierziger und zu Beginn der fuenfziger …
Pandaemonium der Achtziger Jahre
Kurzprosa des Jahres 1983
Av Jozef A. Modzelewski, Peter D. G. Brown
Inbunden, 1990
882 kr
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Dieses Werk befasst sich mit der Widerspiegelung der soziopolitischen Ereignisse unserer Zeit in der deutschen Literatur. J.A. Modzelewski stellt im Licht der soziopolitischen Probleme der spaeteren 60er und 70er Jahre verschiedene Kurzprosatexte der 80er Jahre dar. Die untersuchten Hauptthemen …
Science, Satire and Wit
The Essays of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Av Ralph W Buechler, Peter D. G. Brown
Inbunden, 1991
708 kr
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Luise Buechner
Eine Evolutionaere Frauenrechtlerin Des 19. Jahrhunderts
Av Cordelia Scharpf, Peter D G Brown
Häftad, 2013
988 kr
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Diese erste ausführliche deutschsprachige Monographie über Luise Büchner (1821-1877) aus Darmstadt stellt ihr Leben und Werk dar als Autorin, vielseitige Aktivistin in der ersten bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung und Mitinitiatorin mehrerer Maßnahmen zur besseren Bildung, beruflichen Ausbildung und …
Das Kaiserreich in Zeitromanen Von Hedwig Dohm Und Elizabeth Von Arnim
Av Katrin Komm, Peter D. G. Brown
Häftad, 2003
704 kr
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Das wilhelminische Kaiserreich gilt als bedeutende Kulturepoche, deren gesellschaftliche, politische und soziale Veränderungen bis weit ins 20. Jahrhundert wirkten. Anhand detaillierter Romaninterpretationen von Hedwig Dohm und ihrer englischen Zeitgenossin Elizabeth von Arnim gibt die Studie …
Dark Images, Secret Hints
Benjamin, Scholem, Molitor and the Jewish Tradition
Av Bram Mertens, Peter D. G. Brown
Häftad, 2007
654 kr
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This book examines the influence of the Jewish tradition on the work of the German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin. It was hitherto always assumed that Benjamin’s knowledge of Judaism was very limited and that he was interested only in the mystical tradition of the Kabbalah, the study of which …
Adoleszente Wehrmachtssoldaten in Der Nachkriegsjugendliteratur
Opfer Oder Taeter?- Autobiografische Erklaerungsansaetze Zur Motivation Adoleszenter Soldaten
Av Dirk Wendtorf, Peter D G Brown
Häftad, 2006
631 kr
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Das Buch untersucht Werke jugendlicher deutscher Autoren, die als Wehrmachtssoldaten im Zweiten Weltkrieg dienten und ihre im Krieg gemachten Erfahrungen in Kinder- und Jugendbüchern literarisch verarbeiteten. Im Zentrum der Studie steht die literarische Umsetzung der folgenden Fragen: Was bewegte …
Revolutionary Theater and the Classical Heritage
Inheritance and Appropriation from Weimar to the GDR
Av Michael D. Richardson, Peter D. G. Brown
Häftad, 2007
582 kr
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This study analyzes the work of three prominent proletarian-revolutionary dramatists at the end of the Weimar Republic. The work of Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Wolf, and Gustav von Wangenheim is looked at against the backdrop of debates among Marxist intellectuals and artists. Through a discussion of …
Decolonization in Germany
Weimar Narratives of Colonial Loss and Foreign Occupation
Av Jared Poley, Peter D. G. Brown
Häftad, 2007
614 kr
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When Germany lost its colonial empire after the Great War, many Germans were unsure how to understand this transition. They were the first Europeans to experience complete colonial loss, an event which came as Germany also wrestled with wartime collapse and foreign occupation.In this book the …
Nazi Abduction of Ganymede
Representations of Male Homosexuality in Postwar German Literature
Av Gary Schmidt, Peter D. G. Brown
Häftad, 2003
814 kr
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The male homosexual appears in many guises in postwar West German literature: whether he is a sexually predatory soldier, corrupt teacher, decadent artist, purveyor of kitsch, or powerful industrialist, he appears almost always as an insider of the social and political system. Writers such as …
