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26 produkter
26 produkter
Del 9 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Narrative Structure in Wilhelm Raabe's Die Chronik Der Sperlingsgasse
Inbunden, Engelska, 1989
474 kr
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Del 96 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Beyond Nihilism
Gottfried Benn’s Postmodernist Poetics
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
625 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. Following Nietzschean leads, Benn sought to achieve in his person and his work a return to a primitive, archetypal mode of perception which he felt would restore a purer, more natural mentality to modern man, whom he portrayed as being ‘far ahead of his syntax’. By focusing on Benn’s early Expressionist prose and what this study calls his ‘fictive self’, the author traces the relationship between Benn’s Weltanschauung and later critical theory. Building upon the latest scholarship, she analyses Benn’s poetics as precursor of certain postmodernist ideas concerning language, meaning and polysemy, aesthetics, personal identity, authorial intention versus reader reception, intertextuality, and the role of art in society. By paying specific attention to the concept of the autonomous self and its relation to language, this study demonstrates that Gottfried Benn’s aesthetic theories do not represent the end of German Expressionism, but rather the beginning of the present post-modernist period.
Del 97 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Hans Friedrich Blunck
Poet and Nazi Collaborator, 1888–1961
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
931 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 (1888-1961). Infamous as a classic Blut und Boden («blood and earth») writer, Blunck worked in neo-Romantic, traditional folk styles and was best known for his fairy tales and semi-historical works about his native Schleswig-Holstein. From 1933 to 1935, he was president of the Third Reich’s Reichsschrifttumskammer («Reich Literary Chamber», RSK), a professional union that included all of Nazi Germany’s «acceptable» (and legally publishable) writers. From 1936 to 1940, he was president of Die Stiftung des deutschen Auslandswerks («Foundation for German Foreign Work», DAW), a cultural embassy of his own invention that sought to build informal diplomatic links between Germany and its neighbors. While numerous writers distanced themselves from the Nazi regime before the war, Blunck maintained his ties until the end. His activities represent a consequential, and, arguably, the most revealing, story of literary complicity in the Third Reich. Moreover, his life says a great deal about the cultural forces – particularly the regional literary forces – that helped propel the Nazis to power.
Del 101 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Reading Rilke’s Orphic Identity
Häftad, Engelska, 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 narrative device, this study explores Rilke’s preoccupations with identity in his work, as he investigates the disintegration of the subjective self in the modern world. Rilke’s re-readings of the mythological figures of Orpheus and Narcissus in modern psychological terms, as well as in terms of traditional poetics, are keys not only to his poetics and his changing understanding of «self», but also to his evolving critique of society. This study tracks how Rilke’s Orphic work disengages traditional patterns of perceptions, not only to challenge fidelity to history, but also to recover the power of traditional elements from that history to help articulate subjectivity in new terms.
Del 102 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Cultural Confessionalism
Literary Resistance and the "Bekennende Kirche"
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
539 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 last twenty-eight sermons delivered before his arrest in 1937 Martin Niemöller revitalized Protestant homiletic discourse as a political tool in defiance of the regime. Having protested Niemöller’s imprisonment, Ernst Wiechert was arrested by the Gestapo and incarcerated at Buchenwald for three months during the summer of 1938. Wiechert chronicled his experiences in the fictional autobiography Der Totenwald (1939) – a text which marks the apex of Wiechert’s literary turn from Blut und Boden Dichter to outspoken critic of Nazism. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a member of the Pastors’ Emergency League and for a time pastoral assistant to Martin Niemöller, constructed a sphere of textual resistance in his prose and poetic writings composed while imprisoned in Tegel from 1943 to 1945. This study traces the emergence of cultural confessionalism as a new literary resistance paradigm that developed out of the ideological nexus of cultural Protestantism and the confessionalist trend of the Kirchenkampf. Through literary analysis of sermons by Niemöller and written texts by both Wiechert and Bonhoeffer the book demonstrates how the textual resistance strategies of the cultural confessionalists varied from the oppositional approaches of the ‘innere Emigration’, the political resistance, and the Christian humanist tradition.
Del 103 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Eros and Thanatos
A Psycho-Literary Investigation of Walter Vogt’s Life and Works
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
752 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 write prolifically until his death. He was noted for his use of the grotesque, as well as for his literary sarcasm and use of parody. Vogt’s use of the diary as his main genre enhanced his popularity. He was one of the first Swiss writers with a strong commitment to preventing environmental degradation.Vogt suffered from many physical illnesses, in addition to a multitude of psychological conflicts throughout his life. He was focused on death and illness from his early adult years. This book not only looks at Vogt from a psychiatric point of view, but also at his contribution to contemporary Swiss-German literature.
Del 9 - Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture
Luise Buechner
A Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary Feminist
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
1 151 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 correspond to ideas she promoted in her work on the «woman question». This in-depth study properly situates her in the changing cultural climate and socio-political developments that led to unification of the German states in 1871. Büchner tested and revised her thoughts on the «woman question» in the course of her practical work as a co-founder of local women’s associations and as a member of two competing «national» bourgeois women’s organizations. Her «voice» and temperament, as reflected in letters and articles not consulted by previous biographers, lead to surprising discoveries about a single woman whose life had more to offer than the narrowly prescribed roles assigned to middle-class women of her day.
Del 107 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Mysticism as Modernity
Nationalism and the Irrational in Hermann Hesse, Robert Musil and Max Frisch
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
508 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 century. Rather than dismissing mysticism as a strain of anti-modern irrationalism with troubling links to radical politics such as Nazism, the author reconceptualizes modern mysticism as an unwittingly logical expression of the same compression of time and space created by the emergence of the newspaper, radio, railways and telegraph and reflected in the novels of Hermann Hesse, Robert Musil and Max Frisch.
Häftad, Engelska
777 kr
Kommande
Häftad, Engelska
901 kr
Kommande
Del 4 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Vier Pole Expressionistischer Prosa
Kasimir Edschmid, Carl Einstein, Alfred Doeblin, August Stramm
Inbunden, Tyska, 1988
535 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 Interpretationen der Ergebnisse werden vier verschiedene formale Moeglichkeiten der Darstellung von Erfahrungsintensitaet, Pole, identifiziert: Expressionismus der Sprache, Expressionismus des sprachlich Dargestellten, Expressionismus der Handlung und Expressionismus des Erzaehlens. Im Schlussteil werden formale Gemeinsamkeiten der vier Pole skizziert. Die Arbeit versteht sich als Beitrag zur Deskription des Phaenomens Prosa und Expressionismus und will - als eines ihrer Ziele - das Wesen des expressionistischen Lebensereignisses, das der Intensitaet dieser Gattung zu Grunde liegt, naeher untersuchen.
Del 14 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Achim Von Arnim's Novellensammlung 1812
Balance and Mediation
Inbunden, Engelska, 1987
564 kr
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Del 15 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Romantic Heritage of Marxism
A Study of East German Love Poetry
Inbunden, Engelska, 1987
458 kr
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Del 18 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Rilke and Russia
A Re-evaluation
Inbunden, Engelska, 1990
808 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 publications on this topic from the Soviet Union and from the West and also uses previously unpublished material from Lou Andreas-Salome's «Russian Diary».The scope of this book is more comprehensive than others on this topic. It focuses on Rilke's entire oeuvre and deals with each work in which the influence of his Russian experience can be demonstrated.
Del 26 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Romanwerk von Ingeborg Drewitz
Inbunden, Tyska, 1989
503 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 unter der Ziellosigkeit des Lebens leiden, sich aber nicht der Idee des Absurden verschreiben, sondern angespornt von tiefem Pflichtgefuehl dem Engagement leben.
Del 24 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Negative Spring
Crisis Imagery in the Works of Brentano, Lenau, Rilke, and T.S. Eliot
Inbunden, Engelska, 1988
489 kr
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Del 28 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Dilemma der Kunst
Zur Kunst- und Kuenstlerproblematik in der Deutschsprachigen Prosa Nach 1945
Inbunden, Tyska, 1990
564 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 Jahre setzten sich die Schriftsteller hauptsaechlich mit der Problematik des Krieges auseinander. In den sechziger Jahren engagierten sich Kunst und Kuenstler in gesellschaftskritischer Weise, - und zu Beginn der siebziger Jahre fand eine Kehrtwendung statt: Der Kuenstler wendete sich von der Gesellschaft ab und seinem Selbst zu.
Del 37 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Pandaemonium der Achtziger Jahre
Kurzprosa des Jahres 1983
Inbunden, Tyska, 1990
855 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 sind: zukunftsorientierte Gedanken ueber Atomwaffenanwendung und den 'Tag nach der Bombe' - gegenwaertige Fragen der modernen Gesellschaft - das Leben in der modernen Gesellschaft - neue Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung. Die Studie umfasst dreiundzwanzig verschiedene Publikationen mit insgesamt 222 kurzen Prosawerken, die in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, der Schweiz und Oesterreich im Jahr 1983, dem Jahr, das die 80er Jahre repraesentieren soll, erschienen sind.
Del 41 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Science, Satire and Wit
The Essays of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Inbunden, Engelska, 1991
686 kr
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Del 13 - Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture
Luise Buechner
Eine Evolutionaere Frauenrechtlerin Des 19. Jahrhunderts
Häftad, Tyska, 2013
988 kr
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Häftad, Tyska, 2003
683 kr
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Del 7 - Studies in German Jewish History
Dark Images, Secret Hints
Benjamin, Scholem, Molitor and the Jewish Tradition
Häftad, Engelska, 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 was pioneered by his friend Gershom Scholem. However, on the latter’s recommendation, Benjamin also read Franz Joseph Molitor’s Philosophie der Geschichte oder über die Tradition (1827-1857), a massive four-volume work which presents a comprehensive overview of both mainstream and mystical aspects of the Jewish tradition. Having unearthed the most likely written source of Benjamin’s knowledge of Judaism, this study sets out to show that Benjamin’s thought was influenced considerably by Jewish concepts of language, experience and history, and that this influence is persistent enough to lend a unity to Benjamin’s work that transcends its division into an early, metaphysical and a late, materialist or Marxist stage. Within this context, the book also provides a reassessment of some of Benjamin’s key texts, from the early programmatic writings on language, philosophy and literature to the little-known Protokolle zu Drogenversuchen and the unfinished Passagen-Werk.
Del 105 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Adoleszente Wehrmachtssoldaten in Der Nachkriegsjugendliteratur
Opfer Oder Taeter?- Autobiografische Erklaerungsansaetze Zur Motivation Adoleszenter Soldaten
Häftad, Tyska, 2006
625 kr
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Del 108 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Revolutionary Theater and the Classical Heritage
Inheritance and Appropriation from Weimar to the GDR
Häftad, Engelska, 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 theatrical theory and close readings of individual plays, this work examines the authors’ unique aesthetics and their enactment of a critical appropriation of the German literary heritage. It also investigates their attempts to transform the audience’s relationship to the theatrical production from a passive-receptive to an active-critical one.This volume offers insights into larger questions of political and cultural continuity that characterized the Weimar and the postwar periods.
Del 99 - Studies in Modern German Literature
Decolonization in Germany
Weimar Narratives of Colonial Loss and Foreign Occupation
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
595 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 author considers how Germans experienced this change from imperial power to postcolonial nation. This work examines what the loss of the colonies meant to Germans, and it analyzes how colonialist categories took on new meanings in Germany’s «post-colonial» period. Poley explores a varied collection of materials that ranges from the stories of popular writer Hanns Heinz Ewers to the novels, essays, speeches, pamphlets, posters, and archival materials of nationalist groups in the occupied Rhineland to show how decolonization affected Germans. When the relationships between metropole and colony were suddenly severed, Germans were required to reassess many things: nation and empire, race and power, sexuality and gender, economics and culture.
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
814 kr
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