Hofmannsthal S Novel Andreas

Author : David H. Miles
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400870332

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Hofmannsthal's Novel Andreas by David H. Miles Pdf

Although Hofmannsthal never completed his only novel Andreas, its theme—the quest for self through memory—haunted the Viennese writer and recurs again and again in his poems, libretti, and essays. Analyzing the fragment, David Miles discusses Hofmannsthal's understanding of memory and myth, Andreas' pivotal role in his work, and its place within the tradition of such novels as Goethe's Wilhelm Meister and Rilke's Malte. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Theodore Ziolkowski
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421422435

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Cults and Conspiracies by Theodore Ziolkowski Pdf

After much investigation, Ziolkowski reinforces Umberto Eco's notion that the most powerful secret, the magnetic center of conspiracy fiction, is in fact "a secret without content."

Author : Judith Beniston
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Austrian drama
ISBN : 0901286842

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Welttheater by Judith Beniston Pdf

Hugo von Hofmannsthal had a lifelong fascination with the theatrum mundi topos. Judith Beniston analyses his changing responses to it against an unfamiliar backdrop - the revival of Catholic drama which, from the 1890s onwards, accompanied the rise of Austria's Christian Social party. The solipsism of `Jung Wien' and the conservative modernism of the Salzburg Festival are juxtaposed with the career of Richard von Kralik (1852-1934), the key figure in Austria's Catholic literary culture from 1890 to 1934. This study offers close readings of Das kleine Welttheater and Das Salzburger grosse Welttheater, and explores the ramifications of the fascination with the notion of Welttheater which Hofmannsthal and Kralik shared. In juxtaposing elite and popular culture, Beniston sheds new light on a neglected aspect of Austrian cultural history, on the selectivity of Hofmannsthal's approach towards Austria's Baroque tradition, and on the difficulties he faced in his attempt to assimilate his own work into it.

Author : Thomas A. Kovach
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571132155

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A Companion to the Works of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal by Thomas A. Kovach Pdf

The Viennese poet, dramatist, and prose writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was among the most celebrated men of letters in the German language at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. His early poems established his reputation as the `child prodigy' of German letters, and a few remain among the most anthologized in the German language. His early lyric dramas prompted no less a judge than T. S. Eliot to pronounce him, along with Yeats and Claudel, one of the three European writers who had done the most to revive verse drama in modern times. His critical essays attest to the subtle powers of discrimination that marked him as one of the most discerning literary critics of the day. And yet he underwent a crisis of cognition and language around 1900, and from then on turned away from poetry and lyric drama almost entirely, concentrating instead on more public forms of drama such as the libretti for Richard Strauss's operas, the plays written for the Salzburg Festival (of which he was a co-founder), and on discursive and narrative prose. The body of work that Hofmannsthal left behind at his premature death is matched in its variety, breadth, and quality by that of only a handful of German writers. And yet posterity has not been kind to his reputation: those who admired the early work for its aesthetic refinement disdained his turn to more popular forms, whereas many of those who might have been receptive to the more committed and public stance of his later work were put off by his conservative politics. This volume of new essays by top Hofmannsthal scholars re-examines his extraordinarily rich and complex body of work, assessing his stature in German and world literature in the new century. Contributors: Katherine Arens, Judith Beniston, Benjamin Bennett, Nina Berman, Joanna Bottenberg, Douglas A. Joyce, Thomas A. Kovach, Ellen Ritter, Hinrich C. Seeba, Andreas Thomasberger, W. Edgar Yates. Professor Thomas Kovach is Head of the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona.

Author : Fredrik Lindström
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557534644

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Empire and Identity by Fredrik Lindström Pdf

Examines questions of identity and self-understanding in six life-careers in the Austrian intellectual and political elite. This title also presents fresh perspective on the six examined individuals, whose scholarly, artistic, and bureaucratic careers are placed in a political context.

Author : Sabine Wilke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441198235

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From Kafka to Sebald by Sabine Wilke Pdf

This volume is a response to a renewed interest in narrative form in contemporary literary studies, taking up the question of literary narratives and their encounters with modernism and postmodernism within the German-language milieu. Original essays written by scholars of German and Comparative Literature approach the issue of narrative form anew, analyzing the ways in which modernist and postmodernist German-language narratives frame and/or deconstruct historical narratives. Beginning with the German-language modernist author par excellence, Franz Kafka, the volume's essays explore the unique perspective on historical change offered by literature. The authors (Kafka, Kappacher, Goll, Bernhard, Menasse, and Wolf, among others) and works interpreted in the essays included here span the period from before World War I to the post-Holocaust, post-Wall present. Individual essays focus on modernism, postmodernism, narrative theory, and autobiography.

Author : Lorna Martens
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803231865

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Shadow Lines by Lorna Martens Pdf

Intellectual culture in early twentieth-century Austria reached levels of originality and excellence that have rarely been equalled before or since. Shadow Lines examines works by major novelists, dramatists, poets, and intellectuals of that extraordinary era-among them, Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Musil, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Franz Kafka. Lorna Martens considers how each of these authors contributed to a decisive transformation in Austrian culture, involving a shift away from the dialectical syntheses of much nineteenth-century German thought and culture to potent, unresolvable dualisms of known and unknown-orderly and chaotic-features of human experience: consciousness and the unconscious, reason and the irrational, language and the inexpressible. In most of these writers, according to Martens, all that is knowable, reasonable, and orderly is grounded in that which is dark, irrational, chaotic. What Martens calls "the dark area" emerges variously "as the unconscious (Freud), the sexual drive (Freud, Schnitzler, Musil), the death instinct (Freud, Schnitzler), the dangerous chaos below the surface of things (Rilke), the inaccessible totality (von Hofmannsthal), or the unsayable (Mauthner, von Hofmannsthal, Musil, Wittgenstein)." The essential yet enigmatic relation between the known and the unknown leads to much that is unsettling-and strangely fascinating-in these writers' works. A book that shrewdly relates the works of these authors to the intellectual and political turmoil of the times, Shadow Lines is a new critical appraisal of Austrian literature and intellectual culture at the dawn of the century. Lorna Martens is anassociate professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Diary Novel.

Author : Marlo Alexandra Burks
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228017967

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Aesthetic Dilemmas by Marlo Alexandra Burks Pdf

Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) is frequently portrayed in cultural histories as an aloof writer with a precious style, out of step with modern sensibilities. In Aesthetic Dilemmas Marlo Burks reassesses Hofmannsthal’s oeuvre and its place in twentieth-century European modernist aesthetics. Through an examination of a diverse range of Hofmannsthal’s ekphrastic writings – including poetry, essays, opera libretti, fiction, and letters – Burks argues that Hofmannsthal’s work aims to engage the consciousness and sensibility of readers, listeners, and viewers by way of dynamic encounters with works of art. Aesthetic Dilemmas thereby corrects a long-standing, flawed characterization of Hofmannsthal’s work as escapist and demonstrates how his place in the Modernist movement has been misunderstood in most scholarship. The book is in dialogue with a broad range of critical voices and treats a variety of themes, from aestheticism to money, interpersonal relationships, suffering, poverty, labour, futurity, legacy, and hope. Translating numerous passages into English for the first time, Aesthetic Dilemmas gives English-speaking readers the chance to evaluate Hofmannsthal’s literary merit and his contributions to the enduring conversation about art’s relation to ethics.

Author : Helen Frink
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Animals in literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3586673

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Animal Symbolism in Hofmannsthal's Works by Helen Frink Pdf

This study examines recurring animal images in Hofmannsthal's major works and some fragments. In his early -Marchen der 672. Nacht- and in -Reitergeschichte- animals confront man with evidence of his own physicality, symbolizing what Hofmannsthal called -Die Unentrinnbarkeit des Lebens.- Hunting imagery in "Die Frau im Fenster, " the unfinished -Knabengeschichte, - and "Andreas" provides insight into problematical relationships between men and women. The analysis of animal torture in "Das kleine Welttheater, Andreas, " and "Der Turm" exposes deep-rooted conflicts between fathers and sons."

Author : Naomi Segal
Publisher : University of London Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015043291924

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The Banal Object by Naomi Segal Pdf

Author : Philip Ward
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000071011641

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Hofmannsthal and Greek Myth by Philip Ward Pdf

Throughout his career the Austrian dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) turned repeatedly to Greek myth for his material. This book sets out to uncover his reasons for doing so. The results provide not only new insights into his work but a case-study in the reception of the Classics in fin-de-siecle Vienna. Ranging widely over Hofmannsthal's achievements in drama, opera and the dance, this study is the first to provide a solid context for his 'Greek' works, both in the intellectual debates of his time -- on such issues as psychoanalysis, feminism and the 'crisis of language' -- and in contemporary performance practice.

Author : Helen Finch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351191531

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Sebald's Bachelors by Helen Finch Pdf

"Why do queer bachelors and homosexual desire haunt the works of the German writer W. G. Sebald (1944-2001)? In a series of readings of Sebald's major texts, from 'After Nature' to 'Austerlitz', Helen Finch's pioneering study shows that alternative masculinities subvert catastrophe in Sebald's works. From the schizophrenic poet Ernst Herbeck to the alluring shade of Kafka in Venice, the figure of the bachelor offers a form of resistance to the destructive course of history throughout Sebald's critical and literary writing. Sebald's poetics of homosexual desire trace a 'line of flight' away from the patriarchal and repressive order of German society, which, in Sebald's view, led to the disasters of Nazism. This study shows that the potential for subversion personified by Sebald's solitary males is essential for understanding his celebrated work, while also demonstrating the contribution that Sebald made to the German tradition of queer writing. Helen Finch is Academic Fellow in German at the University of Leeds."

Author : Graham Bartram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521483921

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The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel by Graham Bartram Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present. Written by an international team of experts, it encompasses both modernist and realist traditions, and also includes a look back to the roots of the modern novel in the Bildungsroman of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The structure is broadly chronological, but thematically-focused chapters examine topics such as gender anxiety, images of the city, war, and women's writing; within each chapter, key works are selected for close attention. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and detailed analysis of individual works, and featuring a chronology and guides to further reading, this Companion will be indispensable to students and teachers.

Author : Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521785731

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The Cambridge History of German Literature by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly Pdf

This is the first book to describe German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990. It takes a fresh look at the main authors and movements, and also asks what Germans in a given period were actually reading and writing, what they would have seen at the local theatre or found in the local lending library; it includes, for example, discussions of literature in Latin as well as in German, eighteenth-century letters and popular novels, Nazi literature and radio plays, and modern Swiss and Austrian literature. A new prominence is given to writing by women. Contributors, all leading scholars in their field, have re-examined standard judgements in writing a history for our own times. The book is designed for the general reader as well as the advanced student: titles and quotations are translated, and there is a comprehensive bibliography.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2426 pages
File Size : 48,5 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