René Schickele And Alsace

Author : Áine McGillicuddy
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Alsace (France)
ISBN : 3039113933

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René Schickele and Alsace by Áine McGillicuddy Pdf

Born into a German-French bilingual environment, the once renowned German-language author Ren Schickele (1883-1940) grew up in the Alsace region - today located in eastern France - during its annexation to the German Empire when links to French culture were frowned upon. In the aftermath of the First World War the situation was reversed when Alsace was reclaimed by the French Republic. In both these phases of its troubled history, Schickele insisted on the importance of Alsace's right to retain its double cultural heritage between the borders of its powerful rival neighbours and on its potential, as mediator between France and Germany, to promote peace in Europe. These issues are addressed in a critical discussion of a range of Schickele's works. His controversial wartime drama Hans im Schnakenloch affords a wry but penetrating insight into issues of identity in Alsace under German rule up to the war, while his socio-political essays and a novel trilogy, Das Erbe am Rhein, were written against the backdrop of the malaise alsacien and life under French rule. The historical background to the work is examined in detail as it is intimately bound up with the issues of cultural identity that Schickele explores in his writings.

Author : Eric Robertson
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9051837119

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Writing Between the Lines by Eric Robertson Pdf

This book is the first major study in English of René Schickele's work. Hailed by his contemporaries as one of the foremost German-language novelists of the inter-war period, and celebrated for his Expressionist poetry and his controversial First World War drama Hans im Schnakenloch, Schickele also produced socio-critical essays and pioneering editorial work for the pacifist journal Die Weißen Blätter. From his literary débuts in fin-de-siècle Strasbourg to the French and German prose fiction of his anti-Nazi exile, Schickele's work reflects his bilingual, bicultural upbringing: his vision of Alsace as a symbolic broker of Franco-German peace finds its clearest expression in the trilogy of novels Das Erbe am Rhein. Schickele remains a paradoxical figure, in his own words, a 'citoyen français und deutscher Dichter' (French citizen and German poet). Through readings of all the major texts, Eric Robertson's study situates Schickele's work within its socio-political and historical context. Particular attention is paid to the personal and political implications of his adoption of German as literary idiom and his reversion to the French mother tongue during the 1930s; Schickele's copious diaries and his correspondence with fellow writers including Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann and Stefan Zweig are shown to be especially revealing. Schickele's oeuvre holds a unique and hitherto underrated place in the European writing of his era.

Author : Eric Robertson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004650657

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Writing Between the Lines by Eric Robertson Pdf

This book is the first major study in English of René Schickele's work. Hailed by his contemporaries as one of the foremost German-language novelists of the inter-war period, and celebrated for his Expressionist poetry and his controversial First World War drama Hans im Schnakenloch, Schickele also produced socio-critical essays and pioneering editorial work for the pacifist journal Die Weißen Blätter. From his literary débuts in fin-de-siècle Strasbourg to the French and German prose fiction of his anti-Nazi exile, Schickele's work reflects his bilingual, bicultural upbringing: his vision of Alsace as a symbolic broker of Franco-German peace finds its clearest expression in the trilogy of novels Das Erbe am Rhein. Schickele remains a paradoxical figure, in his own words, a 'citoyen français und deutscher Dichter' (French citizen and German poet). Through readings of all the major texts, Eric Robertson's study situates Schickele's work within its socio-political and historical context. Particular attention is paid to the personal and political implications of his adoption of German as literary idiom and his reversion to the French mother tongue during the 1930s; Schickele's copious diaries and his correspondence with fellow writers including Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann and Stefan Zweig are shown to be especially revealing. Schickele's œuvre holds a unique and hitherto underrated place in the European writing of his era.

Author : Liliane Mangold Vassberg
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853591726

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Alsatian Acts of Identity by Liliane Mangold Vassberg Pdf

A German dialect spoken in Alsace (France), has rapidly lost way to French since 1945. This book investigates language choice, language attitudes and ethnic identity in Alsace today. The Alsatian case study points out the complex interrelationship of linguistic and identity change with historical, social and psychological processes.

Author : Jo Guldi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300256680

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The Long Land War by Jo Guldi Pdf

The Long Land War tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Reviewing movements for giving reparations in land to formerly colonized people, marches to control the cost of rent for urban tenants, indigenous land movements, the machinations of development analysts, and the squatters who took matters into their own hands, the book traces the origins of modern proposals for state-engineered "land reform" from Ireland in 1881 through their assassination by the United States in 1974. 0 The book peers into the success and failure of postcolonial programs to protect small farmers in dialogue with the United Nations, World Bank, private institutions, and grassroots movements alike. Touching on the promise and pitfalls of modern ideologies-including international bureaucracies, market ideology, nonviolent protest, and participatory democracy-Jo Guldi provides a definitive narrative of land redistribution and offers an unflinching critique of its failures, working out the promise of politics for how we own property, govern, and adjudicate justice on a changing planet.

Author : Meredith L. Scott
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004514898

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The Lifeline: Salomon Grumbach and the Quest for Safety by Meredith L. Scott Pdf

The Lifeline is the ground-breaking study of Salomon Grumbach, an Alsatian Jew, journalist, and socialist politician who became one of Europe’s most important refugee advocates. It examines his life in interwar France and beyond, tracing his human rights activism across the decades.

Author : Manet van Montfrans
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 905183506X

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Borders and Territories by Manet van Montfrans Pdf

Author : Paul Kurt Ackermann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044087272480

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René Schickele: a Bibliography by Paul Kurt Ackermann Pdf

Author : Christopher J. Fischer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1845457242

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Alsace to the Alsatians? by Christopher J. Fischer Pdf

The region of Alsace, located between the hereditary enemies of France and Germany, served as a trophy of war four times between 1870-1945. With each shift, French and German officials sought to win the allegiance of the local populace. In response to these pressures, Alsatians invoked regionalism--articulated as a political language, a cultural vision, and a community of identity--not only to define and defend their own interests against the nationalist claims of France and Germany, but also to push for social change, defend religious rights, and promote the status of the region within the larger national community. Alsatian regionalism however, was neither unitary nor unifying, as Alsatians themselves were divided politically, socially, and culturally. The author shows that the Janus-faced character of Alsatian regionalism points to the ambiguous role of regional identity in both fostering and inhibiting loyalty to the nation. Finally, the author uses the case of Alsace to explore the traditional designations of French civic nationalism versus German ethnic nationalism and argues for the strong similarities between the two countries' conceptions of nationhood.

Author : Jerome Meckier,Bernfried Nugel
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643910806

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Aldous Huxley Annual by Jerome Meckier,Bernfried Nugel Pdf

Volume 17/18 begins with a section containing original Huxley documents: Below the Equator, an unpublished film story collaboration by Isherwood and Huxley, edited by James Sexton and Bernfried Nugel, to be followed by two pieces rediscovered and edited by James Sexton, viz. The Heroes, William R. Cox's screenplay adaptation of a lost Huxley story, and the translation of a 1960 interview held in French by the Canadian writer Hubert Aquin. Then Huxley nephew Piero Ferrucci kindly opens his family archives of original Huxley letters and photographs and contributes a remarkable essay on his coming of age with Aldous Huxley. Rounding off this section, Peter Wood introduces an unknown 1934 letter Huxley wrote to Ren'e Schickele, a forgotten German author in the writers' community at Sanary. The second section presents a further selection of papers from the Sixth International Aldous Huxley Symposium held at Almer'a in April 2017 as well as other critical articles.

Author : Beate Althammer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000924114

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Citizenship, Migration and Social Rights by Beate Althammer Pdf

The tensions between European conceptions of the welfare state and transnational migration have caused heated political, public, and academic debates over the last decades. Historiography, however, has not yet explored in depth how European societies struggled with this dilemma-filled relationship in the formative phases of modern welfare states from the late nineteenth century to the post-war era. The present volume contributes to filling this gap and thus to putting a highly topical issue into historical perspective. The focus is on Europe, but with a wide geographic scope that reaches also across the Atlantic. Following an introductory chapter, eleven case studies deal with four themes. The first part explores the agency of migrants in local-level administrative and judicial procedures that controlled practical access to formal rights. The second section investigates special regulations developed for seasonal labour migrants employed mainly in agriculture. The third part looks at the role of urban social policies in attracting, integrating, but also excluding both domestic and foreign migrants. The final section addresses the gradual globalisation of migrants’ social rights through international conventions. The book will be of interest not only to historians of welfare, migration, and citizenship, but also to social scientists as well as to graduate students in these fields.

Author : Peter Charles Sturman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300065698

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Mi Fu by Peter Charles Sturman Pdf

Mi Fu was a prominent calligrapher in 11th-century China. This analysis of his work considers content and style, and examines his calligraphy within the framework of the artist's life, the Northern Song culture in which he lived and the literati theory of art he helped to formulate.

Author : Milton J. Esman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501734281

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Ethnic Conflict in the Western World by Milton J. Esman Pdf

Why, in the late 1960's, did ethnic minorities such as Scots and Welsh, Quebecois, Bretons and Basques unexpectedly begin to protest and assert their demands with fresh vigor, confidence, and even violence? What are the factors that help to explain the activation of these ethnic political movements, some of which now threaten the continued integrity of such long-established states as Canada and Great Britain? This book represents the first systematic attempt to deal with the re-emergence of ethnic conflict in Western societies. In addition to three historical and theoretical essays, there are eleven case studies of countries where ethnic nationalism has become politically significant. In a concluding chapter the editor comments on the theoretical and policy implications of the country studies.

Author : Ethel Snowden
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066430672

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A political pilgrim in Europe by Ethel Snowden Pdf

"A political pilgrim in Europe" by Ethel Snowden. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Rainer Rumold
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810131118

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Archaeologies of Modernity by Rainer Rumold Pdf

Archaeologies of Modernity explores the shift from the powerful tradition of literary forms of Bildung—the education of the individual as the self—to the visual forms of “Bildung” (from Bild) that characterize German modernism and the European avant-garde. Interrelated chapters examine the work of Franz Kafka, Jean/Hans Arp, Walter Benjamin, and Carl Einstein, and of artists such as Oskar Kokoschka or Kurt Schwitters, in the light of the surge of an autoformation (Bildung) of verbal and visual images at the core of expressionist and surrealist aesthetics and the art that followed. In this first scholarly focus on modernist avant-garde Bildung in its entwinement of conceptual modernity with forms of the archaic, Rumold resituates the significance of the poet and art theorist Einstein and his work on the language of primitivism and the visual imagination. Archaeologies of Modernity is a major reconsideration of the conception of the modernist project and will be of interest to scholars across the disciplines.