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by Susan Van Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.
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by Hartmut Heyck
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Essay from the year 2015 in the subject German - Literature, Works, , language: English, abstract: This paper details how Theodor Herzl initiated the serialized publication of Wilhelm Jensen's 'Pompeian fantasy' GRADIVA in the Viennese Newspaper NEUE FREIE PRESSE in June/July 1902. This 'gothic' novel,...
The Fleeting Promise of Art
Adorno's Aesthetic Theory Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
A discussion of Theodor Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory is bound to look significantly different today than it would have looked when the book was first published in 1970, or when it first appeared in English translation in the 1980s. In The Fleeting Promise of Art, Peter Uwe Hohendahl reexamines Aesthetic...
by Martin Heidegger, Ernst Jünger
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Beginning in 1949, the German novelist and essayist Ernst Jünger began a correspondence with the philosopher Martin Heidegger that lasted until Heidegger’s death in 1975. This volume contains the first English translation of their complete correspondence, as well as letters from Heidegger’s wife...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Today, forty years after Timothy Leary's suggestion that hippies read Hermann Hesse while "turning on," Hesse is once again receiving attention: faced with ubiquitous materialism, war, and ecological disaster, we discover that these problems have found universal expression in the works of...
Herder
Aesthetics against Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Among his generation of intellectuals, the eighteenth-century German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder is recognized both for his innovative philosophy of language and history and for his passionate criticism of racism, colonialism, and imperialism. A student of Immanuel Kant, Herder challenged...
Building a National Literature
The Case of Germany, 1830–1870
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine...
by Roger Paulin
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel's extraordinarily diverse interests and...
On Creaturely Life
Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
In his Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that animals enjoy direct access to a realm of being—the open—concealed from humans by the workings of consciousness and self-consciousness. In his own reading of Rilke, Martin Heidegger reclaims the open as the proper domain of human existence...
Lyric Orientations
Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
In Lyric Orientations, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of our mortality. She focuses on two German-speaking masters of lyric prose and poetry: Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843)...
Heinrich von Kleist
Writing after Kant
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The question of Heinrich von Kleist's reading and reception of Kant's philosophy has never been satisfactorily answered. The present study aims to reassess this question, particularly in the light of Kant's rising importance for the humanities today. It argues not only that Kleist was influenced by...
The Look of Things
Poetry and Vision around 1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Examining the relationship between German poetry, philosophy, and visual media around 1900, Carsten Strathausen argues that the poetic works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Stephan George focused on the visible gestalt of language as a means of competing aesthetically with the increasing...
Uncivil Unions
The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism and Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
“What a strange invention marriage is!” wrote Kierkegaard. “Is it the expression of that inexplicable erotic sentiment, that concordant elective affinity of souls, or is it a duty or a partnership . . . or is it a little of all that?”
Like Kierkegaard a few decades later, many of Germany’s...
Modern Languages Study Guides: Der Besuch der alten Dame
Literature Study Guide for AS/A-level German
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas & CCEA
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Modern Languages
First Teaching: September 2016
First Exam: June 2017
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