German Literature Between Faiths

Author : Peter Meister
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3039101749

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German Literature Between Faiths by Peter Meister Pdf

Religion is a central concern of German literature in all centuries, and the canon looks different when this perspective is acknowledged. For example, Goethe's fascination with evil is difficult to disentangle from the Holocaust, Moses Mendelssohn is as profound as the playwright who portrayed him, and «Princess Sabbath» deserves to be numbered among Heine's more enchanting lyrics. This essay collection posits, and tests, the hypothesis that German literature at its best is often an expression or investigation of Judaism or Christianity at their best; but that the best German literature is not always the best-known, and vice versa. Asking whether the New Testament is anti-Jewish (and answering in the negative), essayists range through the German centuries from The Heliand to Kafka and Thomas Mann.

Author : Thomas Großbölting
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785332791

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Losing Heaven by Thomas Großbölting Pdf

As the birthplace of the Reformation, Germany has been the site of some of the most significant moments in the history of European Christianity. Today, however, its religious landscape is one that would scarcely be recognizable to earlier generations. This groundbreaking survey of German postwar religious life depicts a profoundly changed society: congregations shrink, private piety is on the wane, and public life has almost entirely shed its Christian character, yet there remains a booming market for syncretistic and individualistic forms of “popular religion.” Losing Heaven insightfully recounts these dramatic shifts and explains their consequences for German religious communities and the polity as a whole.

Author : Arnold Ruge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Germany
ISBN : OXFORD:N11185760

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New Germany, Its Modern History, Literature, Philosophy, Religion and Art by Arnold Ruge Pdf

Author : Frank Finlay
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Austria
ISBN : 3034301561

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Religion and Identity in Germany Today by Frank Finlay Pdf

Proceedings of a colloquium held in July 2008 in Swansea, Wales.

Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Austrian literature
ISBN : 1781884676

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Enlightenment and Religion in German and Austrian Literature by Ritchie Robertson Pdf

Religion and enlightenment, the twin themes of this volume, always exist in tension. The tensions, affinities, and conflicts between the two, as they play out in German literature from Goethe, Schiller and Kleist down to Kafka and Thomas Mann, are explored in this volume, with one section examining their interplay in the neglected Austrian Enlightenment. Thanks to the historical and textual criticism of the Bible, the 'sea of faith' began its withdrawal sooner in Germany than in England, and this collection traces its retreat, looking especially at Nietzsche's militant opposition to Christianity and at the expression in some modernist writing of a distinctly post-Christian and even post-human outlook.

Author : Christian Wiese,Martina Urban
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110247756

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German-Jewish Thought Between Religion and Politics by Christian Wiese,Martina Urban Pdf

German-Jewish intellectuals have occupied center stage in the discourse on Judaism and modernity since the Enlightenment. Dedicated to Paul Mendes-Flohr, this volume explores the complex interaction between Jewish thought and the often competing claims of non-Jewish society and culture, thus creating a rich image of German Jewry’s intellectual world in the modern period. The outcome is a unique collection of essays that provides crucial new insights into the religious and political dimension characterizing the thought of those populating the pantheon of German-Jewish thinkers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666917871

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The Secret in Medieval Literature by Albrecht Classen Pdf

The Secret in Medieval Literature explores the many secret agents, actions, creatures, and other beings influencing human existence. Medieval poets had a clear sense of the alternative dimension (the secret) and allowed it to enter quite frequently into their texts.

Author : James R. Hodkinson,Jeffrey Morrison
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571134196

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Encounters with Islam in German Literature and Culture by James R. Hodkinson,Jeffrey Morrison Pdf

German-language writings about Islam not only reveal much about Islamic culture but also about the European "home" culture. Islam has been a rich topic in German-language literature since the middle ages, and the writings about it not only reveal much about Islamic culture but also about the European "home" culture. Many of the early essays in this chronologically arranged volume uncover fresh evidence of how German writers used images of Islam-as-other to define their individual subject positions as well as to define the German nation and the Christian religion. The perspectives of many contemporary writers are, however, far removed from such a polar opposition of cultures. Their experience of the German-Islamic encounter is complicated by a crucial factor: many of them emerge from Muslim migrant communities such as the German-Turkish community. The culturally hybrid origins of these writers and their expression of experiences and ideologies that cross boundaries of East and West, Christendom and Islam, strongly affect the findings of the essays as the volume moves toward the present. The texts discussed include travelogues and other firsthand encounters with Islam; reports for colonial authorities; aesthetic treatises on Islamic art; literary, essayistic, and theological writing on Islamic religious practice; the incorporation of characters, situations, and settings from the Islamic world into fiction or drama; and fictional and autobiographical writing by Muslims in German. Contributors: Cyril Edwards, Silke Falkner, James Hodkinson, Timothy R. Jackson, Margaret Littler, Rachel MagShamráin, Frauke Matthes, Yomb May, Jeffrey Morrison, Kate Roy, Monika Shafi, Edwin Wieringa, W. Daniel Wilson, Karin E. Yesilada. James Hodkinson is Assistant Professor of German at Warwick University; Jeffrey Morrison is Senior Lecturer at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Author : David E. Wellbery,Judith Ryan,Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674015037

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A New History of German Literature by David E. Wellbery,Judith Ryan,Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Pdf

'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.

Author : Matthias Konzett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 49,6 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.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 827 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110321517

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East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times by Albrecht Classen Pdf

This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the early modern world, combining a large number of critical studies representing such diverse fields as literary (German, French, Italian, English, Spanish, and Arabic) and other subdisciplines of history, religion, anthropology, and linguistics. The differences between Islam and Christianity erected strong barriers separating two global cultures, but, as this volume indicates, despite many attempts to 'Other' the opposing side, the premodern world experienced an astonishing degree of contacts, meetings, exchanges, and influences. Scientists, travelers, authors, medical researchers, chroniclers, diplomats, and merchants criss-crossed the East and the West, or studied the sources produced by the other culture for many different reasons. As much as the theoretical concept of 'Orientalism' has been useful in sensitizing us to the fundamental tensions and conflicts separating both worlds at least since the eighteenth century, the premodern world did not quite yet operate in such an ideological framework. Even though the Crusades had violently pitted Christians against Muslims, there were countless contacts and a palpitable curiosity on both sides both before, during, and after those religious warfares.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 2849 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110215588

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Handbook of Medieval Studies by Albrecht Classen Pdf

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.

Author : Celia Deane-Drummond,Rebecca Artinian-Kaiser,David L. Clough
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567571892

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Animals as Religious Subjects by Celia Deane-Drummond,Rebecca Artinian-Kaiser,David L. Clough Pdf

This book examines one of the most pressing cultural concerns that surfaced in the last decade - the question of the place and significance of the animal. This collection of essays represents the outcome of various conversations regarding the animal studies and shows multidisciplinarity at its very best, namely, a rigorous approach within one discipline in conversation with others around a common theme. The contributors discuss the most relevant disciplines regarding this conversation, namely: philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, theology, history of religions, archaeology and cultural studies. The first section, Thinking about Animals, explores philosophical, anthropological and religious perspectives, raising general questions about the human perception of animals and its crucial cultural significance. The second section explores the intriguing topic of the way animals have been used historically as religious symbols and in religious rituals. The third section re-examines some Christian theological and biblical approaches to animals in the light of current concerns. The final section extends the implications of traditional views about other animals to more specific ethical theories and practices.

Author : Kuno Francke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : German literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009916743

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Social Forces in German Literature by Kuno Francke Pdf

Author : John Boening
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000765878

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The Reception of Classical German Literature in England, 1760-1860, Volume 6 by John Boening Pdf

The extensive scope of this collection means that this documentary record of the reception of German literature in England is a valuable scholarly resource. One of the most important features of British literary and intellectual history over the past 250 years is the influence of German literature. From the second half of the 18th Century, through the first decades of the 19th, German books and ideas attracted, then gained the attention of a nation. Despite the acknowledged importance of the influence on writers such as Coleridge and Carlyle the subject, though often alluded to, was rarely studied. This collection provides a guidebook through the masses of periodical and allows the English side of the Anglo-German literary relationship to be explored in detail. In order to make the collection useful to scholars with a wide range of interest, it has been divided into three parts: Part 1 is a chronological presentation of commentary on German literature in general. It also contains collective reviews of multiple German authors, notices of important anthologies and reactions to influential works about Germany and its culture. Part 2 collects reviews of 18th Century individual German authors and Part 3 is devoted to the English reception of Goethe and Schiller. Parts 2 & 3 contain cross-references to the collective reviews of Part 1. Containing over 200 British serials and articles and reviews from all the major English literary periodicals, the collection also includes a broad sampling of opinion from the more general magazines, including some popular religious publications.