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From Goethe to Gundolf

Roger Paulin
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Author : Roger Paulin
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800642157

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From Goethe to Gundolf by Roger Paulin Pdf

From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin’s groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty years. The work represents his major research interests of Romanticism and the reception of Shakespeare in Germany, but also explores a broader range of themes, from poetry and the public memorialization of poets to fairy stories - all meticulously researched, yet highly accessible. As a comprehensive examination of German literary history in the period 1700-1900, the collection not only includes accounts of the lives and work of Goethe, Schiller, the Schlegels, and Gundolf (amongst others), serving to nuance our understanding of these figures in history, but also considers diverse (and often underexplored) topics, from academic freedom to the rise of travel literature. The essays have been reformulated, corrected, and updated to add references to recent works. However, the core foundations of the originals remain, and just as when they were first published, the value of these essays – to researchers, students, and all those who are interested in German literary history – cannot be overstated.

From Goethe to Gundolf

Roger Paulin
From Goethe to Gundolf Book PDF

Author : Roger Paulin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : German literature
ISBN : 1800642164

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From Goethe to Gundolf by Roger Paulin Pdf

From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin's groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty years. The work represents his major research interests of Romanticism and the reception of Shakespeare in Germany, but also explores a broader range of themes, from poetry and the public memorialization of poets to fairy stories - all meticulously researched, yet highly accessible. As a comprehensive examination of German literary history in the period 1700-1900, the collection not only includes accounts of the lives and work of Goethe, Schiller, the Schlegels, and Gundolf (amongst others), serving to nuance our understanding of these figures in history, but also considers diverse (and often under explored) topics, from academic freedom to the rise of travel literature. The essays have been reformulated, corrected, and updated to add references to recent works. However, the core foundations of the originals remain, and just as when they were first published, the value of these essays - to researchers, students, and all those who are interested in German literary history - cannot be overstated. -- From publisher website.

Goethe's Elective Affinities and the Critics

Astrida Orle Tantillo
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Author : Astrida Orle Tantillo
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571132120

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Goethe's Elective Affinities and the Critics by Astrida Orle Tantillo Pdf

The first book-length examination in English of the critical reception of Goethe's daring novel The Elective Affinities. From the time of its publication to today, Goethe's famous novel The Elective Affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften, 1809), has aroused a storm of critical confusion. Critics in every age have vehemently disagreed about its content (whether it defends the institution of marriage, radically supports its dissolution, or even whether it is about marriage at all), its style (whether it is romantic, realistic, modern, or postmodern) and its tone (whether it is tragic, anti-romantic, or ironic). The present study begins by focusing upon the reaction of Goethe's contemporaries, and then discusses Goethe's own efforts -- in light of the initial negative critical reaction -- toshape the novel's reception. It continues by viewing the novel through the lens of 19th-century Hegelianism, positivism, and biographical studies, and by exploring the relationship between the novel's 19th-century reception and the growth of psychoanalytic theory and German nationalism. Moving on to the 20th century, the book considers the re-evaluation of Goethe's scientific works, the impact of World War II on the novel's interpreters, and the growing influence of literary theory. Here particular emphasis is placed upon Walter Benjamin's seminal essay on the novel and upon the criticism that the essay has inspired. Astrida Orle Tantillo is assistant professor of German at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Contemplating Violence

Stefani Engelstein,Carl Niekerk
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Author : Stefani Engelstein,Carl Niekerk
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042032958

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Contemplating Violence by Stefani Engelstein,Carl Niekerk Pdf

Illuminates the treatment of violence in the German cultural tradition between the French Revolution and the Holocaust and Second World War.

Goethe in German-Jewish Culture

Klaus L. Berghahn,Jost Hermand
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Author : Klaus L. Berghahn,Jost Hermand
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1571133232

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Goethe in German-Jewish Culture by Klaus L. Berghahn,Jost Hermand Pdf

New essays examining Goethe's relationship to the Jews, and the contribution of Jewish scholars to the fame of the greatest German writer. The success of Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners(1997) and the heated debates that followed its publication exposed once again Germany's long tradition of anti-Semitism as a major cause of the Holocaust. Goldhagen, like many before him, drew a direct and irresistible line from Luther's pamphlets against the Jews to Hitler's attempted annihilation of European Jewry. This collection of new essays examines the thesis of a universal anti-Semitism in Germany by focussing on its greatest author, Goethe, and seeing to what extent some scholars are justified in accusing him of anti-Semitism. It places the reception of Goethe's works in a broader historical context: his relationship to Judaism and the Jews; the reception of his works by the Jewish elite in Germany, the reception of the 'Goethe cult' by Jewish scholars; and the Jewish contribution to Goethe scholarship. The last section of the volume treats the Jewish contribution to Goethe's fame and to Goethe philology since the 19th century, and the exodus of many Jewish authors and scholars after 1933, when they took their beloved Goethe into exile. When a few of them returned to Germany after 1945, it was to a country that had lost Goethe's most devoted audience, the German Jews. KLAUS L. BERGHAHN and JOST HERMAND are professors of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Appropriating Theory

Jose Eduardo Gonzalez
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Author : Jose Eduardo Gonzalez
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822982845

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Appropriating Theory by Jose Eduardo Gonzalez Pdf

Angel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies, but little has been published on his critical work. In this study, José Eduardo González focuses on Rama’s response to and appropriation of European critics like Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Georg Lukács. González argues that Rama realized the inapplicability of many of their theories and descriptions of cultural modernization to Latin America, and thus reworked them to produce his own discourse that challenged prevailing notions of social and cultural modernization.

The 'Jewish Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939

Ritchie Robertson
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Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191584312

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The 'Jewish Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939 by Ritchie Robertson Pdf

The Jewish Question in German Literature, 1749-1939 is an erudite and searching literary study of the uneasy position of the Jews in Germany and Austria from the first pleas for Jewish emancipation during the Enlightenment to the eve of the Holocaust. Trying to avoid hindsight, and drawing on a wide range of literary texts, Ritchie Robertson offers a close examination of attempts to construct a Jewish identity suitable for an increasingly secular world. He examines both literary portrayals of Jews by Gentile writers - whether antisemitic, friendly, or ambivalent - and efforts to reinvent Jewish identities by the Jews themselves, in response to antisemitism culminating in Zionism. No other study by a single author deals with German-Jewish relations so comprehensively and over such a long period of literary history. Robertson's new work will prove stimulating for anyone interested in the modern Jewish experience, as well as for scholars and students of German fiction, prose, and political culture.

Selected Writings: 1913-1926

Walter Benjamin
Selected Writings 1913 1926 Book PDF

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674945859

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Selected Writings: 1913-1926 by Walter Benjamin Pdf

Even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting and much more.

Reading Walter Benjamin

Richard J. Lane
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Author : Richard J. Lane
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719064376

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Reading Walter Benjamin by Richard J. Lane Pdf

This book explores the persistence of absolute in Benjamin's work by sketching out the relationship between philosphy and theology apparent in his diverse writings, from the early youth movement essays to the later books, essays and fragments. Lane examines Benjamin from two main perspectives: a history-of-ideas approach situating Benjamin in relation to the new German-Jewish thinking at the turn of the twentieth-century, as well as the German youth movements, Surrealism and the "Georgekreis"; and a conceptual approach examining more critical issues in relation to Benjamin and Kant, modern aesthetics and narrative order.

Goethe's Concept of the Daemonic

Angus James Nicholls
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Author : Angus James Nicholls
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571133070

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Goethe's Concept of the Daemonic by Angus James Nicholls Pdf

The first book to examine Goethe's writings on the daemonic in relation to both Classical philosophy and German Idealism. For Plato, the daemonic is a sensibility that brings individuals into contact with divine knowledge; Socrates was also inspired by a "divine voice" known as his "daimonion." Goethe was introduced to this ancient concept by Hamannand Herder, who associated it with the aesthetic category of genius. This book shows how the young Goethe depicted the idea of daemonic genius in works of the Storm and Stress period, before exploring the daemonic in a series of later poetic and autobiographical works. Reading Goethe's works on the daemonic through theorists such as Lukács, Benjamin, Gadamer, Adorno, and Blumenberg, Nicholls contends that they contain arguments concerning reason, nature, and subjectivity that are central to both European Romanticism and the Enlightenment. Angus Nicholls is Claussen-Simon Foundation Research Lecturer in German and Comparative Literature at the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations in the Department of German, Queen Mary, University of London.

Mythistory

Joseph Mali
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Author : Joseph Mali
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226502625

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Ever since Herodotus declared in Histories that to preserve the memories of the great achievements of the Greeks and other nations he would count on their own stories, historians have debated whether and how they should deal with myth. Most have sided with Thucydides, who denounced myth as "unscientific" and banished it from historiography. In Mythistory, Joseph Mali revives this oldest controversy in historiography. Contesting the conventional opposition between myth and history, Mali advocates instead for a historiography that reconciles the two and recognizes the crucial role that myth plays in the construction of personal and communal identities. The task of historiography, he argues, is to illuminate, not eliminate, these fictions by showing how they have passed into and shaped historical reality. Drawing on the works of modern theorists and artists of myth such as Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, Joyce and Eliot, Mali redefines modern historiography and relates it to the older notion and tradition of "mythistory." Tracing the origins and transformations of this historiographical tradition from the ancient world to the modern, Mali shows how Livy and Machiavelli sought to recover true history from uncertain myth-and how Vico and Michelet then reversed this pattern of inquiry, seeking instead to recover a deeper and truer myth from uncertain history. In the heart of Mythistory, Mali turns his attention to four thinkers who rediscovered myth in and for modern cultural history: Jacob Burckhardt, Aby Warburg, Ernst Kantorowicz, and Walter Benjamin. His elaboration of the different biographical and historiographical routes by which all four sought to account for the persistence and significance of myth in Western civilization opens up new perspectives for an alternative intellectual history of modernity-one that may better explain the proliferation of mythic imageries of redemption in our secular, all too secular, times.

Love and Death in Goethe

Ellis Dye
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Author : Ellis Dye
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781571133007

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Love and Death in Goethe by Ellis Dye Pdf

Explores the central theme of Romantic poetry in the works of the most important German Romantic poet of all.

The Novel as Archive

Ehrhard Bahr
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Author : Ehrhard Bahr
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571130969

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The Novel as Archive by Ehrhard Bahr Pdf

Goethe's novel defined as a key work anticipating modernist novels of 20th century. A fresh study of one of the most perplexing and daring novels ever written, one that was largely misunderstood when it first appeared, and which has emerged only in the last two decades as a work that pointed forward, stylistically and structurally, to the modernist novels of the twentieth century. Bahr shows how Goethe subordinated the role of the author-narrator, making use of a variety of sophisticated narrative devices, such as the archive, the interpolated novella (some of whose characters appear as 'real' figures in the novel itself!) to distance himself from the work, thus ironizing its apparent meaning.

Demonic History

Kirk Wetters
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Author : Kirk Wetters
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810129764

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Demonic History by Kirk Wetters Pdf

In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, such as Gundolf, Spengler, Benjamin, Lukács, and Doderer. Wetters focuses especially on the philological and metaphorological resonances of the demonic from its core formations through its appropriations in the tumultuous twentieth century. Propelled by equal parts theoretical and historical acumen, Wetters explores the ways in which the question of the demonic has been employed to multiple theoretical, literary, and historico-political ends. He thereby produces an intellectual history that will be consequential both to scholars of German literature and to comparatists.

The Crisis of German Historicism

Liisi Keedus
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Author : Liisi Keedus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107093034

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The Crisis of German Historicism by Liisi Keedus Pdf

A comparative intellectual history of the political thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, two influential and controversial German-Jewish-American political philosophers.