Beyond Recall Unwiederbringlich

Author : Jon Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351875264

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Volume 12, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art by Jon Stewart Pdf

While Kierkegaard is primarily known as a philosopher or religious thinker, his writings have also been used extensively by literary writers, critics and artists worldwide who have been attracted to his creative mixing of genres, his complex use of pseudonyms, his rhetoric and literary style, and his rich images, parables, and allegories. The goal of the present volume is to document this influence in different language groups and traditions. Tome I explores Kierkegaard’s influence on literature and art in the Germanophone world. He was an important source of inspiration for German writers such as Theodor Fontane, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Alfred Andersch, and Martin Walser. Kierkegaard’s influence was particularly strong in Austria during the generation of modernist authors such as Rudolf Kassner, Karl Kraus, Robert Musil, and Hermann Broch. Due presumably in part to the German translations of Kierkegaard in the Austrian cultural journal Der Brenner, Kierkegaard continued to be used by later figures such as the novelist and playwright, Thomas Bernhard. His thought was also appropriated in Switzerland through the works of Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt. The famous Czech author Franz Kafka identified personally with Kierkegaard’s love story with Regine Olsen and made use of his reflections on this and other topics.

Author : Theodor Fontane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000617476

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Beyond Recall (Unwiederbringlich) by Theodor Fontane Pdf

Author : R. Speirs,J. Breuilly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230518520

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Germany's Two Unifications by R. Speirs,J. Breuilly Pdf

Germany's unique historical experience of undergoing national unification twice in a little over a century makes it a fascinating object of study. In this volume the processes of unification are analysed from the point of view of historians, political scientists and literary historians. Because each event had quite different historical pre-conditions (the first having been long anticipated and pursued, whereas the second took virtually all participants by surprise), the processes of adjustment to it have differed in many ways. Yet in each case the idea of national unity has held sway powerfully as a norm guiding the responses of those involved.

Author : Theodor Fontane
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590175699

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Irretrievable by Theodor Fontane Pdf

Opposites attract, and Helmut Holk and Christine Arne, the appealing married couple at the center of this engrossing book by one of Germany’s greatest novelists, could not be less alike. Christine is a serious soul from a devout background. She is brooding and beautiful and devoted to her husband and their two children. Helmut is lighthearted and pleasure-loving and largely content to defer to his wife’s deeper feelings and better wisdom. They live in a beautiful large house overlooking the sea, which they built themselves, and have been happily married for twenty-three years—only of late a certain tension has crept into their dealings with each other. Little jokes, casual endearments, long-meditated plans: they all hit a raw nerve. How a couple can slowly drift apart, until one day they find themselves in a situation which is nothing they ever wished for but from which they cannot go back, is at the heart of this timeless story of everyday life. Theodor Fontane’s great gift is to tell the story effectively in his characters’ own words, listening to how they talk and fail to talk to each other, watching them turn away from their own true feelings as much as from each other. Irretrievable is a nuanced, affectionate, enormously sophisticated, and profoundly humane reckoning with the blindness of love.

Author : Nicholas Boyle,Reader in German Literary and Intellectual History Nicholas Boyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199206599

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German Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Boyle,Reader in German Literary and Intellectual History Nicholas Boyle Pdf

German writers, be it Goethe, Nietzsche, Marx, Brecht or Mann, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction illuminates the particular character and power of German literature, and examines its impact on the wider cultural world.

Author : Theodor Fontane
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141907277

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Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane Pdf

Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her age, who has little time for his new wife. Isolated and bored, Effi finds comfort and distraction in a brief liaison with Major Crampas, a married man with a dangerous reputation. But years later, when Effi has almost forgotten her affair, the secret returns to haunt her, with fatal consequences. Considered to be Fontane's greatest novel, Effi Briest is a humane, unsentimental portrait of a young woman torn between her duties as a wife and mother and the instincts of her heart.

Author : Linda A. Westervelt
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826211372

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Beyond Innocence, Or, The Altersroman in Modern Fiction by Linda A. Westervelt Pdf

In this groundbreaking work, Linda A. Westervelt defines an important yet previously unidentified and therefore unnamed type of novel, the altersroman, or age novel. Fictions focusing on a protagonist's confrontation with mortality toward the end of middle age are likely to become ever more prominent in a Western world in which the average age of the population increases and more people reach late middle age and old age. Working from a diverse sample of modern literature, Westervelt analyzes the variety of responses to the life evaluation. Some characters achieve a level of affirmation that allows renewal, redirection, or simply peace, while others confront feelings of disgust or despair that so little time is left them. Her altersromane are books about seeking wisdom, though not everyone of this age becomes wise. The use of the term altersroman highlights the fact that the altersroman is a classification comparable to but also clearly distinguishable from the bildungsroman, wherein characters make the transition from youth to adulthood. Westervelt contrasts her older protagonists' characteristics with the equivalent characteristics in the bildungsroman through an examination of Don Quixote, part 2, as well as six American novels: The Ambassadors, by Henry James; The Professor's House, by Willa Cather; The Mansion, by William Faulkner; The Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner; A Book of Common Prayer, by Joan Didion; and Jazz, by Toni Morrison. These seven works, though remarkably different, share the common features of the altersroman. Westervelt articulates the traits clearly, rests them on the psychological literature, and then shows in depth how the characteristics of the altersroman can enrich and more deeply inform our reading of a significant subset of modern literature that previously went unheralded. Readers can use Westervelt's analysis to identify altersromane in literature other than their own, and she begins this process by identifying exemplars written in other languages. Beyond Innocence, or the Altersroman in Modern Fiction introduces readers to the altersroman as a tool for classification and analysis and demonstrates the power and utility of that tool. It offers a meaningful and enriching complement to the more established category of the bildungsroman.

Author : J. P. Stern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000762914

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Idylls & Realities by J. P. Stern Pdf

Originally published in 1971, this book outlines the period of Germany’s belated industrial revolution and suggests why German literature does not, before the 1880s, contribute to the tradition of European realism. It considers the alternatives to realism offered in three genres of drama, poetry and prose fiction. The book closely analyses specific texts, both in the original and in translation, with comparisons with non-German works.

Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082911903

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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 by New York Public Library. Research Libraries Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484856

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Theodor Fontane and the European Context by Anonim Pdf

On the centenary of Fontane’s death and at the turn of the century these essays take a new look at this supreme chronicler of Prussia and of the Germany that emerges after 1871. Written by scholars from different countries and disciplines, they focus on novels and theatre reviews from the perspectives of philosophy, sociology, comparative literature and translation theory, and in the contexts of topography and painting. Connections and crosscurrents emerge to reveal new aspects of Fontane’s poetics and to produce contrasting but complementary readings of his novels. He appears in the company of predecessors and contemporaries, such as Scott, Thackeray, Saar, Ibsen, Turgenev, but also in that of writers he has rarely, if ever, been seen beside, such as E.T.A. Hoffmann, Stendhal, Trollope, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Beckett and Faulkner. The historical novel and the social position of women are each a recurring focus of interest. Fontane emerges as receptive to other voices, as a precursor of developments in modern narrative, and confirmed as the novelist who brings the nineteenth-century German novel closest to the broad traditions of European realism.

Author : Justin Wintle Esq,Justin Wintle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1432 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781317853633

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Makers of Nineteenth Century Culture by Justin Wintle Esq,Justin Wintle Pdf

This volume provides a critical examination of the lives and works of the leading novelists, poets, dramatists, artists, philosophers, social thinkers, mathematicians and scientists of the period. The subjects are assessed in the light of their cultural importance, and each entry is deliberately interpretative, making this work both an essential reference tool and an engaging collection of essays. Figures covered include: Marx, Wagner,Darwin, Malthus, Balzac, Jane Austen, Nietzsche, Babbage, Edgar Allan Poe, Ruskin, Schleiermacher, Herbert Spencer, Harriet Martineau and Oscar Wilde.

Author : Eric A. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521527007

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Urbanization and Crime by Eric A. Johnson Pdf

This 1995 book contributes to both modern German history and to the sociological understanding of crime in modern industrial and urban societies. Its central argument is that cities, in themselves, do not cause crime. It focuses on the problems of crime and criminal justice during Germany's period of most rapid urban and industrial growth - a period when Germany also rose to world power status. From 1871 to 1914, German cities, despite massive growth, socialist agitation and non-ethnic German immigration, were not particularly infested with crime. Yet the conservative political and religious elites constantly railed against the immoral nature of the city and the German governmental authorities, police, and court officials often overreacted against city populations. In so doing, they helped to set Germany on a dangerous authoritarian course.

Author : Theodor Fontane
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781640141773

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Mathilde Möhring by Theodor Fontane Pdf

"The first English translation of Fontane's late, posthumously published novel, featuring the eponymous, complex heroine and confronting issues regarding gender roles and marriage that still resonate today. Theodor Fontane hesitated to publish his late novel Mathilde Mèohring because he believed it was too modern for his readership. Published posthumously in 1906, its themes - corrosive economic precarity, the ambivalence of marriage for women, and the burden of work expectations for men - resonate uncannily with readers today. The heroine Mathilde and her mother cling to the underside of the lower middle class by renting out a room in their small Berlin apartment. Their new tenant seems to offer a path to middle-class security, so although marriage is not her first choice, Mathilde applies her shrewd yet limited understanding of class mores to pursue it - with results both triumphant and catastrophic. The last among Fontane's powerfully drawn female protagonists, Mathilde is unlike any previous heroine of a German novel: intelligent and energetic but plain and deeply pragmatic. We follow the flawed but fearless Mathilde from the bustling metropolis of Berlin to Woldenstein, a sleepy backwater town she single-handedly transforms, and back. Unknown in the English-speaking world, this compact work has the humor and pathos familiar to readers of Fontane, and is powerfully evocative of the politics of class, gender, and religion in late 19th-century Germany. Also included are an introduction, an afterword, and extensive endnotes that richly contextualize the work for both general readers and students of literature, history, gender studies, and German studies"--

Author : Emily Frances Adeline SERGEANT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:504728054

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Beyond Recall. A Novel by Emily Frances Adeline SERGEANT Pdf

Author : Matthias Konzett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135941222

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Encyclopedia of German Literature by Matthias Konzett Pdf

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.