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When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the writer, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching explorations of historical cruelty, memory, and dislocation.
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A discussion of Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory is bound to look significantly different today than it would have looked when the book was first published in 1970, or when it first appeared in English translation in the 1980s. In The Fleeting Promise of Art, Peter Uwe Hohendahl reexamines Aesthetic Theory along with Adorno's other writings on aesthetics in light of the unexpected return of the aesthetic to today's cultural debates. Is Adorno's aesthetic...
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Stanley Corngold is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His books include The Fate of the Self, Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form, and Complex Pleasure as well as two translations of Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Selected Stories.
On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story "The Judgment," which came out of him "like a regular birth." This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign...
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Paul Celan's works dwell on the threshold between the extremes of poetic expression and philosophical reflection. The divergent literary and critical idioms that have marked Celan's writing-and that Celan's writing has come to mark for others (Hamacher, Derrida, Szondi)-thus call for a new philology. This philology cannot be situated within presupposed genres or fields but rather explores the ways in which poetic and philosophical ambitions meet in...
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In the winter of 1801—02, Friedrich Hölderlin traveled more than one thousand kilometers from his home near Stuttgart to Bordeaux, partly on foot, partly by post coach. It took him two months. Then, after four months serving as a tutor, he inexplicably decided to return home. Not long after he set out, his coach was held up by highwaymen, and, with no money, he had to walk the rest of the way. By the time he arrived, he was so disheveled and disoriented...
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Marcel Reich-Ranicki writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and hosts the prime-time television show Das Literarische Quartett. He is the author of numerous books on German and Polish literature, including Thomas Mann and His Family.
Marcel Reich-Ranicki is remarkable for both his unlikely life story and his brilliant career as the "pope of German letters." His sublimely written autobiography is at once a fascinating adventure tale, an unusual...
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Crime Fiction in German is the first volume in English to offer a comprehensive overview of German-language crime fiction from its origins in the early nineteenth century to its vibrant growth in the new millennium. As well as introducing readers to crime fiction from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the former East Germany, the volume expands the notion of a German crime-writing tradition by investigating Nazi crime fiction, Jewish-German crime...
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Maria Tatar is Professor of German at Harvard University. She is the author of Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood, The Hard Facts of the Grimm's Fairy Tales, and Spellbound: Mesmerism and Literature, all published by Princeton University Press.
In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture:...
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This is a COMPLETE ANALYSIS of BERTOLT BRECHT"S famous play The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Many such guides only confine themselves to the plot analysis, characters and characterization, themes and elements of style. Indeed, many only touch on either or two of these subjects. However, this book looks at ALL of them in order to give the reader the TOTAL picture of the play and hint on other types of drama related to The Caucasian Chalk Circle. This book...
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In Making German Jewish Literature Anew, Katja Garloff traces the emergence of a new Jewish literature in Germany and Austria from 1990 to the present. The rise of new generations of authors who identify as both German and Jewish, and who often sustain additional affiliations with places such as France, Russia, or Israel, affords a unique opportunity to analyze the foundational moments of diasporic literature. Making German Jewish Literature Anew...
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An Unchanging Blue provides a generous sampling of translations (with German originals) taken from ten collections of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's poetry published between 1962 and 1975. An extensive introduction by Mark Terrill contextualizes Brinkmann's place in postwar German literature.
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Proposes "the extraordinary" as a defining characteristic of modernity.
Translated from the Spanish De lo extraordinario: Nominalismo y Modernidad, this book argues that a defining aspect of modernity is an ever-increasing pursuit of, and need for, what Eduardo Sabrovsky calls "the extraordinary," a term that encompasses both the exception and the miraculous. Sabrovsky shows the degree to which Robert Musil's novel The Man without Qualities functions...
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A new reading of justice engaging the work of two philosophical poets who stand in conversation with the work of Martin Heidegger.
What is the measure of ethics? What is the measure of justice? And how do we come to measure the immeasurability of these questions? Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice situates the problem of justice in the interdisciplinary space between philosophy and poetry in an effort to explore the sources of ethical life in...
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Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that still resonate today.
Queer theory has focused heavily on North American and contemporary contexts, but in this book Richard O. Block helps to expand that reach. Deftly combining the two main currents of recent queer theory, the asocial and the reparative, he reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800, while relating his findings to recent...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Lorsque paraît le second volume du Chat Murr, en décembre 1821, E. T. A. Hoffmann n'a plus que quelques mois à vivre: la maladie l'emporte le 25 juin 1822, avant qu'il ait pu commencer la rédaction du troisième et dernier volume du roman.
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Le Chat Murr d'E.T.A. Hoffmann
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The book provides a sentence-by-sentence translation of Die Judenbuche (1842) by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, arguably one of Germany's greatest female poets. Often thought of as a detective novel, The Jews' Beech Tree is as much a mystery to read today as it was in 1842. Featuring the original German and the translated English side-by-side, this text also includes three critical introductions and two additional poetry translations.
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Two Studies of Friedrich Hölderlin shows how the poet enacts a radical theory of meaning that culminates in a unique and still groundbreaking concept of revolution, one that begins with a revolutionary understanding of language. The product of an intense engagement with both Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, the book presents Werner Hamacher's major attempts at developing a critical practice commensurate with the immensity of Hölderlin's late...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
À la fin de l'année 1930, Joseph Roth (1894-1939), chroniqueur depuis 1923 à la Frankfurter Zeitung, annonçait à Stefan Zweig la première ébauche de son roman.
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur La Marche de Radetzky de Joseph Roth
Chaque fiche de lecture présente une œuvre clé de la littérature ou de la pensée. Cette présentation...
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Œuvre majeure de l'âge baroque, Les Aventures de Simplicissimus faillirent rester orphelines. Parues en 1668 sous un pseudonyme, elles ne furent l'objet d'une recherche en paternité qu'à la fin de la première moitié du XIXe siècle.
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Les Aventures de Simplicissimus de Hans Jakob Christoffel von...
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Die Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre von 1794/95 ist das systematische Hauptwerk des Philosophen Johann Gottlieb Fichte und eines der zentralen Werke im nachkantischen Idealismus.
Die Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre (GWL) bildet die erste von insgesamt zehn Fassungen der Wissenschaftslehre, die Fichte im Laufe seines Lebens veröffentlichte. Ein Grund, die Wissenschaftslehre immer wieder zu überarbeiten, lag für Fichte sicherlich...
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