German Life & Civilization – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien German Life & Civilization. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
31 produkter
Rethinking Peter Weiss
Av Jost Hermand, Marc Silberman
Häftad, 2001
589 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Weiss’s substantial œuvre has become a casualty of the cold war’s end, the collapse of socialism, and the beginning of a new millennium – as one would call it. This strikes us a valid reason to reconsider Peter Weiss – to face the challenge of rethinking the work of a writer and artist who was a …
Bitter Witness
Otto Dix and the Great War
Av Linda F. McGreevy, Jost Hermand
Häftad, 2003
777 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Bitter Witness is an intensive, factual study of Otto Dix’s war-related art. It is the first book to place Dix’s etching cycle, Der Krieg, alongside numerous paintings and drawings in the perspective of his war experience on two fronts from mid-1915 to 1918’s finale. It includes a full history of …
Ecologies of Socialisms
Germany, Nature, and the Left in History, Politics, and Culture
Av Sabine Mödersheim, Scott Moranda m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
774 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume explores the complex webs of interaction between the environmental movement, socialism, and the «natural» environment in Germany, and beyond, in the twentieth century. There has long been a divide between the environmental, or «green,» movement and socialist movements in Germany, a …
Of Writers and Workers
The Movement of Writing Workers in East Germany
Häftad, 2018
856 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Born of the dream of fostering a new caste of writers from working-class ranks, the «Movement of Writing Workers» (Bewegung schreibender Arbeiter) offers a paradigmatic view of the successes and failures of attempts to implement a socialist cultural revolution in the German Democratic Republic …
Hoelderlin’s Poltergeists
A Drama for Voices
Häftad, 2021
656 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Depicting the literary, erotic, political and clinical trajectory of the Swabian Frühromantiker Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), Solomon’s shapeshifting study presents an audacious English «remix» of Stephan Hermlin’s 1970 radio drama Scardanelli, amplifying the complex contexts of Hölderlin’s …
Robert Walser: Unmoored
Schizophrenia, Cognition, and the Text
Häftad, 2020
915 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Pathology. Psychosis. Schizophrenia. These words often prove inseparable from the life and work of Robert Walser, who retreated to the sanatoria of Switzerland with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. In so doing, he came to embody our romantic image of the outsider, perhaps more fully than any other …
Nietzsches Plastik
Aesthetische Phaenomenologie im Spiegel des Lebens. Vorträge und Aufsätze
Av Babette Babich, Jost Hermand
Häftad, 2021
832 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Das vorliegende Buch bietet hermeneutische und phänomenologische Reflexionen über das Kunstwerk aus der Sicht sowohl des Künstlers – als Schaffendem – als auch des Rezipienten. Erörtert werden die Materialität des Kunstwerks, Bronze, Marmor, Farbe und Klang sowie die Frage nach Nietzsches …
Hearing Music in a Different Key
Ideological Implications in Works of German Music
Av Jost Hermand
Häftad, 2022
590 kr
Lägg i varukorg
«This volume epitomizes Jost Hermand’s inimitable talent of synthesizing wide-ranging disciplines in an accessible and compelling style, bringing to life the experiences of musicians and their public in the context of their own times. These essays also give us a glimpse into how his own life …
Creation of an Avant-Garde Brand
Heiner Mueller’s Self-Presentation in the German Public Sphere
Av Jens Pohlmann, Kristopher Imbrigotta
Häftad, 2023
755 kr
Lägg i varukorg
«Pohlmann’s study offers points of departure for scholarship on authorship, authenticity, and irony in the public sphere; anyone entering debates surrounding Christian Kracht's tricky public persona, for example, would do well to read Pohlmann's study first. All in all, Pohlmann’s book is a clear, …
Paths Crossing
Essays in German-American Studies
Häftad, 2010
860 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book is based on a symposium which took place in April 2009 and was part of a year-long celebration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It presents ten essays by scholars from North America and …
Spaces for Happiness in the Twentieth-Century German Novel
Mann, Kafka, Hesse, Juenger
Häftad, 2011
672 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book offers an in-depth study of the rich tapestry of happiness discourses in well-known philosophical novels by Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse and Ernst Jünger, published between 1922 and 1949. The study is prompted, in part, by an awareness that despite the interdisciplinarity of …
Erinnerung, Schuld Und Neubeginn
Deutsche Literatur Im Schatten Von Weltkrieg Und Holocaust
Av Jochen Vogt
Häftad, 2014
1042 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Das «gespenstische Nachleben» des Faschismus beklagt 1959 der Philosoph Theodor W. Adorno; dass die «deutsche Nachkriegsliteratur» ebendies zu ihrem Thema gemacht hat, konstatiert wenig später der Erzähler Heinrich Böll. Die mehr als zwanzig Essays dieses Bandes, verfasst zwischen 1980 und 2012, …
Goethe and Hafiz
Poetry and History in the "West-oestlicher Divan"
Häftad, 2013
920 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book offers a study of West-East cross-cultural and cross-contextual literacy by investigating Goethe’s relationship to the poetics of fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in the West-östlicher Divan. Goethe’s collection of poetry, this book argues, constitutes a turning point in the history …
German «Lied» after Hugo Wolf
From Hans Pfitzner to Anton Webern
Häftad, 2015
1024 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Following the development of the German Lied after the nineteenth century – when it was widely known as the setting of Romantic poetry to music – this book explores the changing artistic scene in the early twentieth century, as rapid social, economic and environmental changes affected German …
Remembering Rosenstrasse
History, Memory and Identity in Contemporary Germany
Av Hilary Potter, Jost Hermand
Häftad, 2018
910 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In February 1943 intermarried Germans gathered in Berlin’s Rosenstrasse to protest the feared deportation of their Jewish spouses. This book examines the competing representations of the Rosenstrasse protest in contemporary Germany, demonstrating how cultural memories of this event are intertwined …
Entering History
Feminist Dialogues in Irmtraud Morgner’s Prose
Av Silke von der Emde, Jost Hermand
Häftad, 2004
841 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book offers a thorough examination of the novels of Irmtraud Morgner (1933-1990), one of the most talented, compelling and overlooked writers within East German feminist and avant-garde circles. Using a combination of theoretical approaches – including Adorno’s aesthetic theories and …
Pro Und Contra Goethe
Dichterische Und Germanistische Stellungnahmen Zu Seinen Werken
Häftad, 2005
588 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Goethes Rezeption in Deutschland war anfangs höchst kontrovers und wandelte sich erst im Laufe der Zeit zu einer Verkultung des Dichters. Das Buch geht mit einer dialektisierenden Optik an Goethe heran. Anhand der beiden Kategorien «Pro» und «Contra» werden Werk und Wirkung Goethes aus …
Samurai and Supermen
National Socialist Views of Japan
Av Bill Maltarich, Jost Hermand
Häftad, 2005
1102 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Focusing on the ideological contradictions inherent in the German alliance with Japan during World War II, this book analyses German discourse about Japan from the distinct yet intricately connected standpoints of the German-Japanese historical relationship, the scientific and pseudo-scientific …
From Cosmology to Ecology
The Monist World-View in Germany from 1770 to 1930
Av Eric Paul Jacobsen, Jost Hermand
Häftad, 2005
1140 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book traces the development of the monist world-view in Germany from the Age of Goethe to the 1920s. Originally a core idea in the philosophy of Spinoza, monism, the idea of a universe of one substance that is both mind and matter, inspired many German thinkers from Goethe to Fechner, …
Antisemitic Elements in the Critique of Capitalism in German Culture, 1850-1933
Häftad, 2007
1090 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume examines selected works of German literature from Gustav Freytag to Joseph Goebbels in relation to ethical, socio-economic, and political texts from the economic «take off» period in the middle of the nineteenth century up to the rise of National Socialism and investigates two aspects …
Kulturpolitik Und Politik Der Kultur Cultural Politics and the Politics of Culture
Festschrift Fuer Alexander Stephan Essays to Honor Alexander Stephan
Av Helen Fehervary, Bernd Fischer
Häftad, 2007
960 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Dieser Band ist Alexander Stephan gewidmet und spiegelt dessen wissenschaftliche Interessengebiete und Leistungen wider. Das Buch enthält Aufsätze von führenden Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern zur Politik und Kultur deutsch-amerikanischer Beziehungen sowie zur Tradition der …
Toys, Consumption, and Middle-class Childhood in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Häftad, 2009
1517 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Drawing on a variety of techniques from history, anthropology and literary criticism the author argues toy consumption helped adults negotiate the transmission of middle-class values regarding modernity, technology, gender roles and nationalism to their children. Practices of consumption permitted …
Against All Odds
Models of Subversive Spaces in National Socialist Germany
Häftad, 2009
698 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This study comprises an analysis of public spheres in National Socialist Germany. It investigates where and under what circumstances resistance to Hitler’s regime was possible. The author focuses on the space of the crypto-public – defined as a politicized private sphere – as a potential realm for …
Poetry and Truth
Variations on Holocaust Testimony
Häftad, 2009
753 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The 1990s saw the appearance of many new works that have redefined and embellished the canon of Holocaust literature. While many of these works have quickly become classics, some have raised new questions about the processes of canonicity. This study concentrates particularly on works in German by …
Eingekesselt
Die Schlacht um Stalingrad im Deutschsprachigen Roman Nach 1945
Inbunden, 1997
788 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Eingekesselt schliesst eine Forschungsluecke in der literaturwissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Kriegsliteratur. Erstmalig werden alle in Deutschland zwischen 1945 und 1993 erschienenen Romane zur Schlacht um Stalingrad analysiert. Dieses Buch versucht, Aufschluesse ueber die politischen und …
Imagined Germany
Richard Wagner's National Utopia, Second Edition
Inbunden, 2020
1107 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Richard Wagner (1813–1883) has often been regarded as a symbol of "Germanness." Despite this view, few studies have been undertaken regarding his nationalistic thinking. Imagined Germany focuses on Wagner’s idea of Deutschtum, especially during the unification of Germany, 1864–1871. Salmi discusses …
Vom Buergerlichen Zum Sozialen Trauerspiel Gerhart Hauptmanns
Av Marc J Schweissinger, Jost Hermand
Häftad, 2016
719 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In diesem Buch geht der Autor der Frage nach, inwiefern sich die beiden Dramen Dorothea Angermann und Vor Sonnenuntergang Gerhart Hauptmanns von ihren Vorgängern unterscheiden und wie sie sich literaturgeschichtlich einordnen lassen. Die beiden Schauspiele wurden von Hauptmann zur Zeit der ersten …
China Und China-Erfahrung in Leben Und Werk Von Anna Seghers
Av Weija Li, Jost Hermand
Häftad, 2010
617 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Das vorliegende Buch rekonstruiert und analysiert als erste Studie dieser Art Anna Seghers’ Begegnung mit den Chinesen, der chinesischen Kultur und Geschichte, der Politik sowie der Gesellschaft des Landes chronologisch. Durch die Darstellung und Analyse Seghers’ China-Begegnung, und der Einflüsse …
Unerfuellte Hoffnungen
Rueckblicke Auf Die Literatur Der Ddr
Häftad, 2013
720 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Nach einem kurzen Abriss der DDR-Geschichte folgen in diesem Buch vierzehn Aufsätze, in denen in chronologischer Folge einige Zentralfragen der Literatur dieses Staats sowie ihrer Hauptautoren, darunter Bertolt Brecht, Erwin Strittmatter, Herbert Otto, Heiner Müller, Hermann Kant, Wolf Biermann, …
Positive Dialektik
Hoffnungsvolle Momente in Der Deutschen Kultur- Festschrift Fuer Klaus L. Berghahn Zum 70. Geburtstag
Av Jost Hermand
Häftad, 2007
720 kr
Tillfälligt slut
