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Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin
Poetry. Translated from the German by James Mitchell. Readers of these carefully crafted translations by James Mitchell will profit not only by their economy and clarity of expression, but also by the fact that the same translating technique allows Holderlin's imagery and remarkable spiritual imagination to shine forth in English. Friedrich Holderlin was born in Germany in 1770 and studied in Tubingen from 1788 to 1793, where he became friends with fellow-students Hegel and Schelling. Thereafter he wrote some of the most fascinating lyric poetry in the history of German literature. Translator James Mitchell has lived and worked for many years in Germany and San Francisco as a writer, book publisher and college teacher.
Sophie von La Roches Briefe an Johann Friedrich Christian Petersen (1788–1806)
Die erste historisch-kritische Briefedition der bis auf wenige Ausnahmen unbekannten 195 Schreiben Sophie von La Roches an den Darmstädter Prinzenerzieher Johann Friedrich Christian Petersen bringt für das biografische Alterskapitel Sophie von La Roches überraschende Erkenntnisse. Die Neuidentifizierung des Korrespondenzpartners ist bereits die erste: Bisher war man davon ausgegangen, die Briefe seien an den berühmten Neologen, Hofprediger Georg Wilhelm Petersen, gerichtet. Die ‚mikrohistorische‘ Analyse der Texte ermöglicht es, die politischen Positionen der Schriftstellerin zu rekonstruieren: Ihre Haltung in den zwei letzten in Offenbach verlebten Jahrzehnten war mitnichten resign...
A History of German Literary Criticism, 1730-1980
First published in Germany in 1985, Geschichte der deutschen Literaturkritik was quickly recognized as the most original and comprehensive study to date of a proud critical tradition including such giants as Lessing, Goethe, and Heine. Now translated into English, it will serve as a model for a new approach to literary history in America and elsewhere, one emphasizing the connections of criticism with other public discourse. The editor, Peter Uwe Hohendahl, has provided an introduction and a chapter, "Literary Criticism in the Epoch of Liberalism,"translated by Jeffrey S. Librett. Filling in the history of German criticism from the Enlightenment to the present are Klaus L. Berghahn of the University of Wisconsin, "From Classicist to Classical Literary Criticism, 1730-1806," translated by John R. Blazek; Jochen Schulte-Sasse, University of Minnesota, "The Concept of Literary Criticism in Romanticism"; Russell A. Berman, Stanford University, "Literary Criticism from Empire to Dictatorship, 1870-1933,"; translated by Simon Srebrny; and Bernhard Zimmerman, University of T_bingen, "Developments in German Literary Criticism from 1933 to the Present," translated by Franz Blaha.
Light, Air, Ozone
Pioneers, troublemakers, discoveries. The resort of Arosa became a world-renowned research centre. This book tells the story of the world's longest series of ozone measurements and the Earth's vital protective envelope. Where the Grandhotel Tschuggen now stands in Arosa was once the Arosa Sanatorium. In those days thousands travelled to the resort to recover from tuberculosis, a disease that was widespread at the time. The German physicist Paul Götz launched his career on the roof of the sanatorium. At the request of the Arosa Resort and Tourism Association (Kur- und Verkehrsverein Arosa) he established the Light Climatic Observatory LCO (Lichtklimatisches Observatorium LKO) in 1921 to prov...
Freigeister und Pragmatiker
Lange wurde den protestantischen Militärgeistlichen Preußens zugeschrieben, mithilfe der Religion die Soldaten diszipliniert zu haben. Demgegenüber argumentiert Angela Strauß, dass es sich bei den Militärgeistlichen der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts nicht um Prediger des Krieges handelte. Zwar hielten sie patriotische Reden, doch ebenso wichtig war ihre Beteiligung an allgemeinen theologischen Debatten sowie ihr Engagement für die Schulbildung und eine Politisierung des Militärs im Sinne der Aufklärung. Das und die Tatsache, dass die Feldprediger zugleich eine kollektive Identität entwickelten, verdeutlicht die Autorin anhand der Auswertung von mehreren hundert Lebensläufen,...
