Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series – serie
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11 produkter
Walter Benjamin
An Intellectual Biography
Av Bernd Witte
Häftad, 1997
276 kr
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This biography of Walter Benjamin provides an introduction to his thought.
Myth of Power and the Self
Essays on Franz Kafka
Inbunden, 2002
623 kr
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A collection of essays on Franz Kafka by the foremost scholar of Kafka. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) has come to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Born into a Jewish middle-class family in Prague, Bohemia, Kafka was in many ways a solitary figure, isolated in his own mind …
Peripheral Visions
The Hidden Stages of Weimar Cinema
Häftad, 2001
283 kr
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The title of this collection echoes Siegfried Kracauer's statement that the lavish movie palaces of 1920s Germany served to stimulate peripheral vision and thus prevent the audience from being absorbed by the spectacle itself. In consideration of questions concerning spatial transformations in and …
Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography
Häftad, 2002
299 kr
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Walter Benjamin is considered one of the most significant writers and theorists in 20th-century Western culture. The author of this work shows that Benjamin's engagement with the political cannot be understood in terms of unified concepts, but rather should be understood from his language.
Fabricating Pleasure
Fashion, Entertainment, and Cultural Consumption in Germany, 1780-1830
Inbunden, 2005
747 kr
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Entertainment, defined as occasions for creating pleasure, added an important dimension to the lifestyle and self-definition of the German middle class around the turn of the nineteenth century. Modern forms of culture and consumption appearing around this time not only enhanced pleasure in …
About Face
German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz
Inbunden, 2004
627 kr
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Once associated with astrology and occultist prophecy, the art of interpreting personal character based on facial and other physical features dates back to antiquity. About Face tells the intriguing story of how physiognomics became particularly popular during the Enlightenment, no longer as a mere …
History, Fiction, and Germany
Writing the Nineteenth-century Nation
Inbunden, 2005
753 kr
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The German-speaking inhabitants of central Europe did not automatically think of themselves as ""Germans"" - not before 1871 and not always after unification. In fact, they spoke mutually incomprehensible dialects, owed allegiance to different leaders, worshiped in different churches, and would not …
Time's Visible Surface
Alois Riegl and the Discourse on History and Temporality in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
Inbunden, 2006
689 kr
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Alois Riegl's art history has influenced thinkers as diverse as Erwin Panofsky, Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Paul Feyerabend, Gilles Deteuze, and Felix Guattari. One of the founders of the modern discipline of art history, Riegl is best known for his theories of representation. Yet his inquiries …
Words from Abroad
Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers
Inbunden, 2005
704 kr
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When Paul Celan was charged with plagiarism in 1960, the ensuing public debate in West Germany threw the poet into a major personal crisis even though most German critics immediately came to his defense. This crisis coincided with a transformative moment in the history of Holocaust remembrance, its …
Aby Warburg and Anti-Semitism
Political Perspectives on Images and Culture
Inbunden, 2008
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674 kr
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This is a landmark study on Aby Warburg's life and work, translated into English.In ""Aby Warburg and Anti-Semitism"", Charlotte Schoell-Glass provides an unprecedented look at the life and writings of cultural critic Aby Warburg through the prism of Warburg's little-known political views. …
Spell of Italy
Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe
Inbunden, 2006
737 kr
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Wearied by his life as an administrator at the Duke's court in Weimar, in 1786 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe departed unannounced in the middle of the night for what had been the destination of his imagination since childhood: Italy. His extended stay there dramatically affected his views of art, …
