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by Jane K. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
A century before psychoanalytic discourse codified a scientific language to describe the landscape of the mind, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explored the paradoxes of an interior self separate from a conscious self. Though long acknowledged by the developers of depth psychology and by its historians,...
by Maximilian Spinner
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject History Europe - Germany - Postwar Period, Cold War, grade: A, Central European University Budapest (Departmemt of Political Science), course: Political Change, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This essay compares the revolutionary...
Durrell Re-read
Crossing the Liminal in Lawrence Durrell's Major Novels
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Reading the twelve major novels of Lawrence Durrell, this study argues for their consideration as a single major project, an opus, marked by themes of liminality and betweenness. As major texts of mid-twentieth-century literature, repeatedly earning nominations for the Nobel Prize, Durrell’s work...
Apostasy and Jewish identity in High Middle Ages Northern Europe
Are you still my brother?'
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The attitude of Jews living in the medieval Christian world to Jews who converted to Christianity or to Christians seeking to join the Jewish faith reflects the central traits that make up Jewish self-identification. The Jews saw themselves as a unique group chosen by God, who expected them to play...
by Katya Hokanson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
It is often assumed that cultural identity is determined in a country’s metropolitan centres. Given Russia’s long tenure as a geographically and socially diverse empire, however, there is a certain distillation of peripheral experiences and ideas that contributes just as much to theories of national...
by N. Birns
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late antique period and the issues of ethnicity and religion it raises makes it very different from that of the classical world in analogous writers.
Performing Bodies
Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860–1920)
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920) explores the variations in the portrayal of female illness in Italian fin de siècle literature and early cinema. Catherine Ramsey-Portolano begins her study with an overview of nineteenth-century theories on female inferiority...
Brown Romantics
Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century proceeds from the conviction that it is high time for the academy in general and scholars of European Romanticism to acknowledge the extensive international impact of Romantic poetry. Chander demonstrates the importance of Romantic...
The Cultural Gradient
The Transmission of Ideas in Europe, 1789-1991
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2002
Is there a sharp dividing line that separates Europe into 'East' and 'West'? This volume brings together prominent scholars from the United States, Canada, France, Poland, and Russia to examine the evolution of the concept of Europe in the two centuries between the French Revolution and the collapse...
by Jens-Uwe Guettel
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
This book traces the importance of the United States for German colonialism from the late eighteenth century to 1945, focusing on American westward expansion and racial politics. Jens-Uwe Guettel argues that from the late eighteenth century onward, ideas of colonial expansion played a very important...
The Genocidal Gaze
From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904–1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated thousands of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The...
Paying for Hitler's War
The Consequences of Nazi Hegemony for Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
During World War II, Germany occupied much of continental Europe. Although the social and political history of this occupation has been studied extensively, the economics of the unprecedented transfer of resources has received surprisingly little attention. Allies, neutrals, and conquered nations...
Mitteleuropa
In German Thought and Action 1815–1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Books begin as ideas. The suggestion for this one came from my mentor and friend, Hajo Holborn of Yale University. To him I am indebted for a series of challenging and rewarding experiences in the study of history. This work started as a routine dissertation on a limited subject, developed into a...
YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture
Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
This book is the first history of YIVO, the original center for Yiddish scholarship. Founded by a group of Eastern European intellectuals after World War I, YIVO became both the apex of secular Yiddish culture and the premier institution of Diaspora Nationalism, which fought for Jewish rights throughout...