Mathilde Möhring

Author : Theodor Fontane
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Theodor Fontane
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9783966371933

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Mathilde Möhring by Theodor Fontane Pdf

„Mathilde halt alles im Griff, insbesondere den jungen Jurastudenten Hugo Großmann, den die Mutter zur Untermiete in die Wohnung genommen hat. Wie ferngesteuert lenkt sie ihn zuerst in den Hafen der Ehe und dann in eine für seine Möglichkeiten respektable Karriere. Als Hugo stirbt, heiratet sie nicht wieder – sie hat nun eine bessere Idee...“ Redaktion Gröls-Verlag (Edition Werke der Weltliteratur)

Author : Kathryn L. Ambrose
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004304840

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The Woman Question in Nineteenth-Century English, German and Russian Literature by Kathryn L. Ambrose Pdf

Kathryn Ambrose offers a new literary critical approach to the Woman Question in nineteenth-century English, German and Russian literature, based on feminist theory, post-structuralism and the semiotics of barriers.

Author : Petra S. McGillen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501351570

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The Fontane Workshop by Petra S. McGillen Pdf

Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures (Awarded by the MLA) With an innovative approach that combines material media history, media theory, and literary poetics, this book reconstructs the great German writer Theodor Fontane's creative process. Petra McGillen follows Fontane into the engine room of his text production. Analyzing a wealth of unexplored archival evidence--which includes a collection of the author's 67 extant notebooks, along with an array of other "paper tools," such as cardboard boxes, envelopes, and slips--McGillen demonstrates how Fontane compiled his realist prose works. That is, he assembled them from premediated sources, literally with scissors and glue, in an extraordinarily inorganic and radically intertextual manner that turned "writing" into a process of ongoing remix. By exploring the far-reaching implications of Fontane's creative practices for our understanding of his authorship, originality, and poetics, this book opens up a completely new way to think about his works and, by extension, 19th-century literary realism. This conceptualization of authors' notebooks as creative tools makes a substantial contribution to scholarship on the history of writing media in several disciplines, from German studies and literary studies to media history, and to our understanding of the relationship between mass media and literary creativity in the late 19th century.

Author : Theodor Fontane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112075006988

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Mathilde Möhring by Theodor Fontane Pdf

Author : Helen Chambers
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571130845

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The Changing Image of Theodor Fontane by Helen Chambers Pdf

Wide-ranging survey of the criticism devoted to Theodor Fontane, with particular emphasis on more recent theoretical trends. This study of the literary scholarship on Fontane's narrative works is the first to present a systematic review of the ever-growing body of criticism on Germany's major realist novelist. Significant developments in Fontane criticism are traced in historical context, from their beginnings in contemporary commentary to the present day. The author places special emphasis on scholarship since 1980, analysing the influence of new literary critical trends in this period; she also considers the effect upon traditional literary criticism of feminism, psychoanalysis, and comparatist approaches, and the fresh developments in reception history, translation, and media studies.

Author : Tina-Karen Pusse,Katharina Walter
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783643902627

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Precarious Parenthood by Tina-Karen Pusse,Katharina Walter Pdf

We all experience parenthood, if not as parents, then by way of having been parented or, in the face of ubiquitous images of idyllic family life, in the longing to be parents or to be parented. Thus, parenthood is one of the most powerful social constructs. This collection of essays gives evidence of the fact that families have never been "real;" that family, like gender or race, is not primarily based on biological criteria, but, above all, has to be performed and is a result of narratives. The relationship between these narratives - their variations in Irish, English, German, Mexican, and Chilean literature or film - and their material confinement is at the core of the essays gathered in this book. (Series: Cultural Studies / Kulturwissenschaft / Estudios Culturales / Etudes Culturelles - Vol. 40)

Author : DS Mayfield
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 899 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110701654

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Rhetoric and Contingency by DS Mayfield Pdf

Human life is susceptible of changing suddenly, of shifting inadvertently, of appearing differently, of varying unpredictably, of being altered deliberately, of advancing fortuitously, of commencing or ending accidentally, of a certain malleability. In theory, any human being is potentially capacitated to conceive of—and convey—the chance, view, or fact that matters may be otherwise, or not at all; with respect to other lifeforms, this might be said animal’s distinctive characteristic. This state of play is both an everyday phenomenon, and an indispensable prerequisite for exceptional innovations in culture and science: contingency is the condition of possibility for any of the arts—be they dominantly concerned with thinking, crafting, or enacting. While their scope and method may differ, the (f)act of reckoning with—and taking advantage of—contingency renders rhetoricians and philosophers associates after all. In this regard, Aristotle and Blumenberg will be exemplary, hence provide the framework. Between these diachronic bridgeheads, close readings applying the nexus of rhetoric and contingency to a selection of (Early) Modern texts and authors are intercalated—among them La Celestina, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Wilde, Fontane.

Author : Sándor Hervey,Mr Ian Higgins,Ian Higgins,Michael Loughridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134818969

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Thinking German Translation by Sándor Hervey,Mr Ian Higgins,Ian Higgins,Michael Loughridge Pdf

Thinking German Translation is a comprehensive and revolutionary 20-week course in translation method offering a challenging and entertaining approach to the acquisition of translation skills. It has been fully and successfully piloted at the University of St.Andrews. Translation is presented as a problem-solving discipline. Discussion, examples and a full range of exercise work enable students to acquire the skills necessary for a broad range of translation problems. Examples are drawn from a wide variety of material from technical and commercial texts to poetry and song. Thinking German Translation is essential reading for advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students of German. The book will also appeal to a wide range of languages students and tutors through the general discussion of principles, purposes and practice of translation.

Author : Theodor Fontane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:491220154

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Mathilde Möhring by Theodor Fontane Pdf

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0156014165

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Too Far Afield by Günter Grass Pdf

The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature tells the story of two old men in Berlin -- one a former East German cultural functionary, the other a former mid-level spy -- observing life in the former German Democratic Republic after the fall of the Wall in 1989. Grass weaves a deeply human story laced with pain and humor in equal measure.

Author : John David Pizer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110725032

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Ambivalent Literary Farewells to the German Democratic Republic by John David Pizer Pdf

This study reverses the question implicit in title of Christa Wolf’s now-canonical 1990 novella Was bleibt (What remains), looking instead at what was lost during the process of German reunification. It argues that, in their work during and after the Wende, most literary authors from both East and West Germany responded ambivalently to the reunification. Many felt, on the one hand, a keen sense of loss as the GDR dissolved and an expanded Federal Republic summarily absorbed former Eastern Germany. They mourned the ideals of democratic socialism, tolerance, and internationalism that the GDR had held dear, as well as the country’s rich cultural life. On the other hand, however, they recognized that the GDR was a fundamentally corrupt surveillance state whose industry weighed heavily on the environment while failing to buoy the country’s economy. By looking at works by some of the most important authors from either side of the border, this study shows that those who unequivocally embraced the reunification were clearly in the minority.

Author : Alan Bance
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521245326

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Theodor Fontane: The Major Novels by Alan Bance Pdf

In this 1982 book, Professor Bance sets the novels of Theodor Fontane in the context of nineteenth-century Europe in order to demonstrate that his œouvre can be seen in terms of a tension between a desire to present the facts and a desire to assert some transcendent poetic truth.

Author : Brigitte Schludermann
Publisher : Hague : Mouton
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : UOM:39015031319059

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Deutung und Bedeutung by Brigitte Schludermann Pdf

Author : ans-Michael Bock,,,im Bergfelder,,
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0857455656

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The Concise Cinegraph by ans-Michael Bock,,,im Bergfelder,, Pdf

This comprehensive guide is an ideal reference work for film specialists and enthusiasts. First published in 1984 but continuously updated ever since, CineGraph is the most authoritative and comprehensive encyclopedia on German-speaking cinema in the German language. This condensed and substantially revised English-language edition makes this important resource available to students and researchers for the first time outside its German context. It offers a representative historical overview through bio-filmographical entries on the main protagonists, from the beginnings to the present day. Included are directors and actors, writers and cameramen, composers and production designers, film theorists and critics, producers and distributors, inventors and manufacturers. An appendix includes short introductory essays on specific periods and movements, such as Early Film, Weimar, Nazi Cinema, DEFA, New German Cinema, and German film since unification, as well as on cinematic developments in Austria and Switzerland. Sections that crossreference names around specific professional groups and themes will prove equally invaluable to researchers.