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Hermann Broch, Visionary in Exile

Author : Paul Michael Lützeler
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571132724

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Hermann Broch, Visionary in Exile by Paul Michael Lützeler Pdf

Studies of one of the foremost 20c Austrian writers, as a critic and as a novelist and dramatist. The Austrian novelist Hermann Broch ranks with Kafka and Musil among the three greatest 20th-century Austrian novelists and belongs to the century's most gifted novelists in German from whatever country. He established his reputation with The Sleepwalkers, a trilogy of political and philosophical novels. His best-known work is The Death of Virgil, a long, challenging work in a lyrical, exuberant, and sometimes nearly incomprehensible style, akind of cerebral stream-of-consciousness of the dying Virgil. Broch also wrote extensively about modern art and architecture, Hofmannsthal, and mass psychology. He has a special connection to Yale, as he lived the last years of his life there after having escaped Austria in 1938. The participants in the Yale Symposium of April 2001 are among the world's most prominent Broch scholars. Fourteen of their presentations have been extensively revised for this volume, which focuses on Broch as critic and as novelist and dramatist. Topics include Broch's views on kitsch and art, and on drama; his cultural criticism; his cooperation with Borgese and Arendt; his theory of mass psychology; history in his works, Ernst Kretschmer's influence on him; Virgil and Celan's Atemwende; Jean Starr Untermeyer's translation of Virgil; guilt and the fall in Those without Gui Paul Michael Lützeler is Distinguished University Professor of German at Washington University St. Louis and editor of Broch's collected works. MATTHIAS KONZETT is associate professor of German at Yale; WILLY RIEMER is associate professor of German at the University of Delaware, and CHRISTA SAMMONS is curator of the German collections of the Beinecke Library at Yale.

A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch

Author : Graham Bartram,Sarah McGaughey,Galin Tihanov
Publisher : Studies in German Literature L
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571135414

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A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch by Graham Bartram,Sarah McGaughey,Galin Tihanov Pdf

Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is best known for his two major modernist works, The Sleepwalkers (3 vols., 1930-1932) and The Death of Virgil (1945), which frame a lifetime of ethical, cultural, political, and social thought. A textile manufacturer by trade, Broch entered the literary scene late in life with an experimental view of the novel that strove towards totality and vividly depicted Europe's cultural disintegration. As fascism took over and Broch, a Viennese Jew, was forced into exile, his view of literature as transformative was challenged, but his commitment to presenting an ethical view of the crises of his time was unwavering. An important mentor and interlocutor for contemporaries such as Arendt and Canetti as well as a continued inspiration for contemporary authors, Broch wrote to better understand and shape the political and cultural conditions for a postfascist world. This volume covers the major literary works and constitutes the first comprehensive introduction in English to Broch's political, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical writings. Contributors: Graham Bartram, Brechtje Beuker, Gisela Brude-Firnau, Gwyneth Cliver, Jennifer Jenkins, Kathleen L. Komar, Paul Michael Lützeler, Gunther Martens, Sarah McGaughey, Judith Ryan, Judith Sidler, Galin Tihanov, Sebastian Wogenstein. Graham Bartram retired as Senior Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Lancaster, UK. Sarah McGaughey is Associate Professor of German at Dickinson College, USA. Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

Hermann Broch and Mass Hysteria

Author : Brett E. Sterling
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Hysteria (Social psychology) in literature
ISBN : 9781640140042

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Hermann Broch and Mass Hysteria by Brett E. Sterling Pdf

The first English-language monograph on Hermann Broch's literary and theoretical work on mass hysteria.

The Mind in Exile

Author : Stanley Corngold
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691229676

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The Mind in Exile by Stanley Corngold Pdf

A unique look at Thomas Mann’s intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States In September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize–winning author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, fled Nazi Germany for the United States. Heralded as “the greatest living man of letters,” Mann settled in Princeton, New Jersey, where, for nearly three years, he was stunningly productive as a novelist, university lecturer, and public intellectual. In The Mind in Exile, Stanley Corngold portrays in vivid detail this crucial station in Mann’s journey from arch-European conservative to liberal conservative to ardent social democrat. On the knife-edge of an exile that would last fully fourteen years, Mann declared, “Where I am, there is Germany. I carry my German culture in me.” At Princeton, Mann nourished an authentic German culture that he furiously observed was “going to the dogs” under Hitler. Here, he wrote great chunks of his brilliant novel Lotte in Weimar (The Beloved Returns); the witty novella The Transposed Heads; and the first chapters of Joseph the Provider, which contain intimations of his beloved President Roosevelt’s economic policies. Each of Mann’s university lectures—on Goethe, Freud, Wagner—attracted nearly 1,000 auditors, among them the baseball catcher, linguist, and O.S.S. spy Moe Berg. Meanwhile, Mann had the determination to travel throughout the United States, where he delivered countless speeches in defense of democratic values. In Princeton, Mann exercised his “stupendous capacity for work” in a circle of friends, all highly accomplished exiles, including Hermann Broch, Albert Einstein, and Erich Kahler. The Mind in Exile portrays this luminous constellation of intellectuals at an extraordinary time and place.

The Marrano Way

Author : Agata Bielik-Robson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110768275

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The Marrano Way by Agata Bielik-Robson Pdf

The Marrano phenomenon is a still unexplored element of Western culture: the presence of the borderline Jewish identity which avoids clear-cut cultural and religious attribution and – precisely as such – prefigures the advent of the typically modern "free-oscillating" subjectivity. Yet, the aim of the book is not a historical study of the Marranos (or conversos), who were forced to convert to Christianity, but were suspected of retaining their Judaism "undercover." The book rather applies the "Marrano metaphor" to explore the fruitful area of mixture and cross-over which allowed modern thinkers, writers and artists of the Jewish origin to enter the realm of universal communication – without, at the same time, making them relinquish their Jewishness which they subsequently developed as a "hidden tradition." The book poses and then attempts to prove the "Marrano hypothesis," according to which modern subjectivity derives, to paraphrase Cohen, "out of the sources of the hidden Judaism": modernity begins not with the Cartesian abstract ego, but with the rich self-reflexive self of Michel de Montaigne who wrestled with his own marranismo in a manner that soon became paradigmatic to other Jewish thinkers entering the scene of Western modernity, from Spinoza to Derrida. The essays in the volume offer thus a new view of a "Marrano modernity," which aims to radically transform our approach to the genesis of the modern subject and shed a new light on its secret religious life as surviving the process of secularization, although merely in the form of secret traces.

Weimar in Princeton

Author : Stanley Corngold
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501386503

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Weimar in Princeton by Stanley Corngold Pdf

Thomas Mann arrived in Princeton in 1938, in exile from Nazi Germany, and feted in his new country as “the greatest living man of letters.” This beautiful new book from literary critic Stanley Corngold tells the little known story of Mann's early years in America and his encounters with a group of highly gifted émigrés in Princeton, which came to be called the Kahler Circle, with Mann at its center. The Circle included immensely creative, mostly German-speaking exiles from Nazism, foremost Mann, Erich Kahler, Hermann Broch, and Albert Einstein, all of whom, during the Circle's nascent years in Princeton, were “stupendously” productive. In clear, engaging prose, Corngold explores the traces the Circle left behind during Mann's stay in Princeton, treating literary works and political statements, anecdotes, contemporary history, and the Circle's afterlife. Weimar in Princeton portrays a fascinating scene of cultural production, at a critical juncture in the 20th century, and the experiences of an extraordinary group of writers and thinkers who gathered together to mourn a lost culture and to reckon with the new world in which they had arrived.

"Escape to Life"

Author : Eckart Goebel,Sigrid Weigel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110258684

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"Escape to Life" by Eckart Goebel,Sigrid Weigel Pdf

After 1933, New York City gave shelter to many leading German and German-Jewish intellectuals. Stripped of their German citizenship by the Nazi-regime, these public figures either stayed in the New York area or moved on to California and other places. This compendium, adopting the title of a famous volume published by Klaus and Erika Mann in 1939, explores the impact the US, and NYC in particular, had on these authors as well as the influence they in turn exerted on US intellectual life. Moreover, it addresses the transformations that took place in the exiled intellectuals’ thinking when it was translated into another language and addressed to an American audience. Among the individuals presented in this volume, are such prominent names as T.W. Adorno, H. Arendt, W. Benjamin, E. Bloch, B. Brecht, S. Kracauer, the Mann family, S. Morgenstern, and E. Panofsky. The authors of the essays in this compendium were free to choose the angle (biography, theory, politics) or aspect (a single work, a personal constellation) deemed best to illuminate the given intellectual’s work. Acclaimed NYC photographer Fred Stein, a German-Jewish refugee from Dresden, produced numerous portraits of exiled intellectuals and artists. A selection of these compelling portraits is reproduced in this book for the first time.

Crowds and Democracy

Author : Stefan Jonsson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231164788

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Crowds and Democracy by Stefan Jonsson Pdf

Between 1918 and 1933, the masses became a decisive preoccupation of European culture, fueling modernist movements in art, literature, architecture, theater, and cinema, as well as the rise of communism, fascism, and experiments in radical democracy. Spanning aesthetics, cultural studies, intellectual history, and political theory, this volume unpacks the significance of the shadow agent known as “the mass” during a critical period in European history. It follows its evolution into the preferred conceptual tool for social scientists, the ideal slogan for politicians, and the chosen image for artists and writers trying to capture a society in flux and a people in upheaval. This volume is the second installment in Stefan Jonsson’s epic study of the crowd and the mass in modern Europe, building on his work in A Brief History of the Masses, which focused on monumental artworks produced in 1789, 1889, and 1989.

Timescapes of Waiting

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004407121

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Timescapes of Waiting by Anonim Pdf

Timescapes of Waiting explores the intersections of temporality and space by examining various manifestations of spatial (im-)mobility. The articles approach these spaces perspectives – including such as history, architecture, law and literary and cultural studies.

The Arts of Democratization

Author : Jennifer M. Kapczynski,Caroline Kita
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472132911

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The Arts of Democratization by Jennifer M. Kapczynski,Caroline Kita Pdf

How postwar West German democracy was styled through word, image, sound, performance, and gathering

Toward Nationalism's End

Author : Adi Gordon
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781512600889

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Toward Nationalism's End by Adi Gordon Pdf

This intellectual biography of Hans Kohn (1891-1971) looks at theories of nationalism in the twentieth century as articulated through the life and work of its leading scholar and activist. Hans Kohn was born in late nineteenth-century Prague, but his peripatetic life took him from the Revolutionary-era Russia to interwar-era Palestine under the British Empire to the United States during the Cold War. Bearing witness to dramatic reconfigurations of national and political identities, he spearheaded an intellectual revolution that fundamentally challenged assumptions about the "naturalness" and the immutability of nationalism. Reconstructing Kohn's long and fascinating career, Gordon uncovers the multiple political and intellectual trends that intersected with and shaped his theories of nationalism. Throughout his life, Kohn was not simply a theorist but also a participant in multiple and often conflicting movements: Zionism and anti-Zionism, pacifism, liberalism, and military interventionism. His evolving theories thus drew from and reflected fierce debates about the nature of internationalism, imperialism, liberalism, collective security, and especially the Jewish Question. Kohn's scholarship was not an abstraction but a product of his lived experience as a Habsburg Jew, an erstwhile cultural Zionist, and an American Cold Warrior. As a product of the times, his concepts of nationalism reflected the changing world around him and evolved radically over his lifetime. His intellectual biography thus offers a panorama of the dynamic intellectual cornerstones of the twentieth century.

Afterlives of the Roman Poets

Author : Nora Goldschmidt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107180253

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Afterlives of the Roman Poets by Nora Goldschmidt Pdf

This innovative book reconceptualises Roman poetry and its reception through the lens of fictional biography ('biofiction').

The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy

Author : John Burns,Matthew C. Flamm,William J. Gahan,Stephanie Quinn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000169263

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The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy by John Burns,Matthew C. Flamm,William J. Gahan,Stephanie Quinn Pdf

The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities is an interdisciplinary study of the abiding quarrel to which poet-philosopher Plato referred centuries ago in the Republic. The book presents eight chapters by four humanities scholars that historically contextualize and cross-interpret aspects of the quarrel in question. The authors share the view that although poets and philosophers continually quarrel, a harmonious union between the two groups is achievable in a manner promising application to a variety of contemporary cultural-political and aesthetic debates, all of which have implications for the current status of the humanities.

Encyclopedia of the World Novel, 1900 to the Present

Author : Michael David Sollars,Arbolina Llamas Jennings
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 2417 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781438140735

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Encyclopedia of the World Novel, 1900 to the Present by Michael David Sollars,Arbolina Llamas Jennings Pdf

Praise for the print edition:"...a useful and engaging reference to the vast world of the novel in world literature."

A History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000

Author : Katrin Maria Kohl,Anne Fuchs,Florian Krobb,Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1571132767

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A History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000 by Katrin Maria Kohl,Anne Fuchs,Florian Krobb,Ritchie Robertson Pdf

New essays examine 20th-c. Austrian literature in relation to history, politics, and popular culture. 20th-century Austrian literature boasts many outstanding writers: Schnitzler, Musil, Rilke, Kraus, Celan, Canetti, Bernhard, Jelinek. These and others feature in broader accounts of German literature, but it is desirable to see how the Austrian literary scene -- and Austrian society itself -- shaped their writing. This volume thus surveys Austrian writers of drama, prose fiction, and lyric poetry; relates them to the distinctive history of modern Austria, a democratic republic that was overtaken by civil war and authoritarian rule, absorbed into Nazi Germany, and re-established as a neutral state; and examines their response to controversial events such as the collusion with Nazism, the Waldheim affair, and the rise of Haider and the extreme right. In addition to confronting controversy in the relations between literature, history, and politics, the volume examines popular culture in line with current trends. Contributors: Judith Beniston, Janet Stewart, Andrew Barker, Murray Hall, Anthony Bushell, Dagmar Lorenz, Juliane Vogel, Jonathan Long, Joseph McVeigh, Allyson Fiddler. Katrin Kohl is Lecturer in German and a Fellow of Jesus College, and Ritchie Robertson is Taylor Professor of German Language and Literature and a Fellow of The Queen's College, both at the University of Oxford.