Aneignungen Entfremdungen The Austrian Playwrigh

Author : Clemens Ruthner,Marianne Henn,Raleigh Whitinger
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0820463752

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ANEIGNUNGEN, ENTFREMDUNGEN. THE AUSTRIAN PLAYWRIGH by Clemens Ruthner,Marianne Henn,Raleigh Whitinger Pdf

This book is a collection of essays by prominent North American and European experts in Austrian literature concerning the Austrian playwright and author Franz Grillparzer, his relationship to various literary traditions, and his reception from the nineteenth century to the present. The chapters originated at a symposium held in February of 2003 at the University of Alberta sponsored by the University of Alberta's Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies.

Author : Alicia E. Ellis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793631725

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Gender and Identity in Franz Grillparzer’s Classical Dramas by Alicia E. Ellis Pdf

Figuring the Female explores language as a cultural document for an intervention into the ways that female alterity is framed in the ancient world. Grillparzer creates a new way of being that is primarily discursive in which the once unintelligible female figure may be known and heard.

Author : David S. Luft
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350202214

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The Austrian Dimension in German Intellectual History by David S. Luft Pdf

Tracing Austrian intellectual life from Maria Theresa to Hitler's annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia, this innovative book offers a precise and engaging account of Austrian intellectual history since the Enlightenment. Here, David S. Luft begins by locating his narrative in the region known as Cisleithanian Austria, the area to the west of the Leitha River that was the basis for the modern Austrian state after 1740. Chapter 2 provides a history of the German-speaking intellectual life of these central lands of the Habsburg Monarchy (Austria and Bohemia) from the Enlightenment to annexation by Nazi Germany. Chapters 3 to 5 identify the most important philosophers, writers, and social thinkers who contributed to Austrian intellectual life in the period between 1740 and 1938/1939 and address the intellectual significance of their work. Elegantly written and meticulously researched, Luft's book brings out the contributions of major figures such as Wittgenstein, Hofmannsthal, Musil, Kafka, Rilke, and Freud, but also draws attention to less well-known figures such as Bolzano, Brentano, Grillparzer, Stifter, Broch, and Hayek.

Author : Rebecca S. Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527565609

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Crime and Madness in Modern Austria by Rebecca S. Thomas Pdf

This collection of essays explores the changing history, rhetoric, politics and representation of crime and madness in modern Austria. From the emergence of Viennese modernism to the post-modern moment, the myths, metaphors and realities of crime and madness have unfolded in the shadow of larger cultural questions regarding cultural norms, gender, war, and national identity. Historically based contributions illuminate such diverse cultural realities as the evolution of psychiatry as medical practice, asylum practices in the early twentieth century, and Austrian participation in and responses to terror and war crimes. From these investigations proceeds the clear insight that cultural responses to crime and madness are often steeped in mythmaking as much as objective policy and practice. Conversely, literary and metaphorical representations of crime and madness reveal attitudes and cultural realities about the Austrian society that produced them and which they reflect. Specialists from the fields of Austrian history, literature and culture studies have collaborated to produce this truly interdisciplinary volume, which responses to crime and madness are often steeped in mythmaking as much as objective policy and practice. Conversely, literary and metaphorical representations of crime and madness reveal attitudes and cultural realities about the Austrian society that produced them and which they reflect.

Author : Katherine Arens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441118233

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Vienna's Dreams of Europe by Katherine Arens Pdf

Vienna's Dreams of Europe puts forward a convincing counter-narrative to the prevailing story of Austria's place in Europe since the Enlightenment. For a millennium, Austrian writers have used images of Europe and its hegemonic culture as their political and cultural reference points. Yet in discussions of Europe's nation-states, Austria appears only as an afterthought, no matter that its precursor states-the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Empire, and Austria Hungary-represented a globalized European cultural space outside the dominant paradigm of nationalist colonialism. Austrian writers today confront reunited Europe in full acknowledgment of Austro-Hungary's multicultural heritage, which mixes various nationalities, ethnicities, and cultural forms, including ancestors from the Balkans and beyond. Challenging standard accounts of 18th- through 20th-century European imperial identity construction, Vienna's Dreams of Europe introduces a group of Austrian public intellectuals and authors who have since the 18th century construed their own public as European. Working in different terms than today's theorist-critics of the hegemonic West, Katherine Arens posits a political identity resisting two hundred years of European nationalism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004309272

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Barbarism Revisited by Anonim Pdf

Barbarism revisited revisits well-known and obscure chapters in the genealogy of barbarism from Greek antiquity to the present. Through contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives, it recasts the conceptual history of barbarism as a task for literary scholars, art historians, and cultural analysts.

Author : Helen Lovatt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350115132

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In Search of the Argonauts by Helen Lovatt Pdf

Few classical stories are as exciting as that of Jason and the Golden Fleece. The legend of the boy, who discovers a new identity as son of a usurped king and leads a crew of demi-gods and famous heroes, has resonated through the ages, rumbling like the clashing rocks, which almost pulverised the Argo. The myth and its reception inspires endless engagements: while it tells of a quest to the ends of the earth, of the tyrants Pelias and Aetes, of dragons' teeth, of the loss of Hylas (beloved of Hercules) stolen away by nymphs, and of Jason's seduction of the powerful witch Medea (later betrayed for a more useful princess), it speaks to us of more: of gender and sexuality; of heroism and lost integrity; of powerful gods and terrifying monsters; of identity and otherness; of exploration and exploitation. The Argonauts are emblems of collective heroism, yet also of the emptiness of glory. From Pindar to J. W. Waterhouse, Apollonius of Rhodes to Ray Harryhausen, and Robert Graves to Mary Zimmerman, the Argonaut myth has produced later interpretations as rich, salty and complex as the ancient versions. Helen Lovatt here unravels, like untangled sea-kelp, the diverse strands of the narrative and its numerous and fascinating afterlives. Her book will prove both informative and endlessly entertaining to those who love classical literature and myth.

Author : Alfred Thomas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226795416

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Prague Palimpsest by Alfred Thomas Pdf

A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly revised and rewritten—from the medieval and Renaissance chroniclers who legitimized the city’s foundational origins to the modernists of the early twentieth century who established its reputation as the new capital of the avant-garde—Alfred Thomas argues that Prague has become a paradoxical site of inscription and effacement, of memory and forgetting, a utopian link to the prewar and pre-Holocaust European past and a dystopia of totalitarian amnesia. Considering a wide range of writers, including the city’s most famous son, Franz Kafka, Prague Palimpsest reassesses the work of poets and novelists such as Bohumil Hrabal, Milan Kundera, Gustav Meyrink, Jan Neruda, Vítĕzslav Nezval, and Rainer Maria Rilke and engages with other famous authors who “wrote” Prague, including Guillaume Apollinaire, Ingeborg Bachmann, Albert Camus, Paul Celan, and W. G. Sebald. The result is a comparative, interdisciplinary study that helps to explain why Prague—more than any other major European city—has haunted the cultural and political imagination of the West.

Author : John L. Plews,Diana Spokiene
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781771122306

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Translation and Translating in German Studies by John L. Plews,Diana Spokiene Pdf

Translation and Translating in German Studies is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Raleigh Whitinger, a well-loved scholar of German literature, an inspiring teacher, and an exceptional editor and translator. Its twenty chapters, written by Canadian and international experts explore new perspectives on translation and German studies as they inform processes of identity formation, gendered representations, visual and textual mediations, and teaching and learning practices. Translation (as a product) and translating (as a process) function both as analytical categories and as objects of analysis in literature, film, dance, architecture, history, second-language education, and study-abroad experiences. The volume arches from theory and genres more traditionally associated with translation (i.e., literature, philosophy) to new media (dance, film) and experiential education, and identifies pressing issues and themes that are increasingly discussed and examined in the context of translation. This study will be invaluable to university and college faculty working in the disciplines in German studies as well as in translation, cultural studies, and second-language education. Its combination of theoretical and practical explorations will allow readers to view cultural texts anew and invite educators to revisit long-forgotten or banished practices, such as translation in (auto)biographical writing and in the German language classroom.

Author : Jeffrey L. Sammons
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1433106779

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Kuno Francke's Edition of the German Classics (1913-15) by Jeffrey L. Sammons Pdf

The twenty-volume edition of The German Classics: Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English was edited by Kuno Francke of Harvard (1855-1930), the most prestigious professor of German in America at the time. While it bears the imprint dates 1913 and 1914, it was not completed until mid-1915, just in time for the submarine sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania in May of that year. The edition was publicized with great fanfare and was well received at first, but with the outbreak of the European war in 1914 and the entry of the United States into it in 1917, American sentiment turned against all things German. The reviews became hostile; the edition was nearly pulped; its publisher went bankrupt; and Francke felt obliged to resign his Harvard professorship. Kuno Francke's Edition of The German Classics (1913-15) describes the origins of the edition; recounts the careers of the editors and some fifty professional contributors; seeks to identify approximately 115 translators; and comments on the nearly 500 illustrations, mostly German art of the nineteenth century. This book also introduces the selections from the 114 featured authors, almost a third of whom were still alive at the time of publication, and evaluates the critical commentary. The edition emerges from the study as a laboratory of the high prestige of German literature and culture in the United States before it fell into permanent decline at the time of World War I.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2426 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000057121345

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Timms
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132155875

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Austrian Satire and Other Essays by Edward Timms Pdf

Austrian Studies is an annual journal reflecting sustained interest in the distinctive cultural traditions of the Habsburg Empire and the Austrian Republic. By publishing a wide range of articles in English, together with a selection of book reviews, it aims to make recent research accessible to a broadly based international readership. Literature is considered in relation to psychology, philosophy, political theory, music, theatre, film, and the visual arts. 'Austrian' includes German-language culture of former areas of the Habsburg Empire, such as Prague and the Bukovina, as well as the work of people of Austrian origin living abroad. Austrian interactions with other linguistic and ethnic groups - the Jewish communities of Austria-Hungary, for example - will also be taken into account. theme, and reviews of the most important recent publications in the field of Austrian Studies. Each volume will also include a substantial review article devoted to keep readers up-to-date with the very latest Austrian literature and with major cultural debates and events.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCAL:B5403350

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Monatshefte by Anonim Pdf

Author : Modern Humanities Research Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art and society
ISBN : IND:30000126337934

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From 'Ausgleich' to 'Jahrhundertwende' by Modern Humanities Research Association Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124004792

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Bibliographic Index by Anonim Pdf