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Rahel Levin Varnhagen
For a woman, Rahel Levin Varnhagen (1771-1833) occupied a unique place in German intellectual history. Heidi Tewarson gives us a rich account of Varnhagen's intellectual community and her writings which led to her reputation as a leading intellectual of her era--a champion of literary figures and movements, of human rights, and of Enlightenment values. 17 illustrations.
A Companion to the Works of Alfred Döblin
A volume of carefully focused essays illuminating the works of one of the leading 20th-century German writers.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) ist die bedeutendste literarische Stimme der afroamerikanischen Kultur. Die in Lorain, Ohio, geborene Schriftstellerin hat mit Romanen wie «Sehr blaue Augen», «Sula», «Menschenkind», «Jazz» und «Paradies» Weltruhm erlangt. 1993 erhielt sie den Nobelpreis für Literatur mit der Begründung, sie habe «durch eine Romankunst, geprägt von visionärer Kraft und poetischer Prägnanz, eine wesentliche Seite der amerikanischen Wirklichkeit» ins Bewusstsein gebracht. Heidi Thomann Tewarson porträtiert die Autorin und stellt die wichtigsten Werke vor. Für die vorliegende Digitalausgabe wurde die gesamte Monographie durchgehend überarbeitet, erweitert und aktualisiert. Sie behandelt sämtliche Veröffentlichungen Toni Morrisons in ihrem historischen Kontext, auch die Werke der letzten Lebensjahre. Es ist die bisher umfassendste Darstellung von Leben und Werk der Nobelpreisträgerin. Das Bildmaterial der Printausgabe ist in diesem E-Book nicht enthalten.
Willkommen und Abschied
Chronicles the first 35 years of the oldest program of its kind in the US, with biographical information on and creative contributions from the participants. Since 1968, Oberlin College has hosted a German writers-in-residence program, the oldest program of its kind in the United States. The list of participants during its first 35 years is impressive, including some of the most prominent writers from Germany, Austria, and German-speaking Switzerland. Christa Wolf, Jurek Becker, Helga Novak, Ulrich Plenzdorf, Barbara Frischmuth, Tankred Dorst, and Peter Bichsel were early participants. More recently, the German-Turkish writer and poet Zafer Senocak was representative of multicultural trends ...
A Companion to the Works of Alfred Döblin
Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) was one of the great German-Jewish writers of the 20th century, a major figure in the German avant-garde before the First World War and a leading intellectual during the Weimar Republic. Döblin greatly influenced the history of the German novel: his best-known work, the best-selling 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, has frequently been compared in its use of internal monologue and literary montage to James Joyce's Ulysses and John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer . Döblin's oeuvre is by no means limited to novels, but in this genre, he offered a surprising variety of narrative techniques, themes, structures, and outlooks. Döblin's impact on German writers after t...
Women Against Napoleon
Although Prussia's beloved Queen Luise and the Swiss-born aristocrat and writer Germaine de Staël were Napoleon Bonaparte's best-known female opponents, women's discontent with Napoleon and the Napoleonic wars was more widespread--and vocal--than once assumed. Women against Napoleon expands our awareness of the range of women's responses to the despot by presenting an international spectrum of female opposition, including contemporary letters, diaries, and published writings, as well as historical fiction of the twentieth century. By setting these materials together, this volume forges new links between literary, historical, and gender scholarship.
Jews in Business and Their Representation in German Literature, 1827-1934
The emancipation of Jews that commenced in Germany in the early 19th century pushed many Jews into urban commerce, industries, and intellectual professions. The ongoing modernization and the Jewish prominence in business brought about an anti-Jewish reaction. Jews were seen as the incarnation of the new materialistic "Zeitgeist", dishonest merchants pursuing non-German business practices, and usurpers of economic power. The Jews represented an alien, unwanted economic system. The backlash against the Jewish businessman was reflected in contemporary literature, from Wilhelm Hauff's "Jud Süß" (1827) to the Nazi novel "Shylock unter Bauern" by Felix Nabor (1934). Examines the representation o...
Emancipation
The first popular history of the Emancipation of Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a transformation that was startling to those who lived through it and continues to affect the world today. Freed from their ghettos, Jews ushered in a second renaissance. Within a century Marx, Freud, and Einstein created revolutions in politics, human science, and physics that continue to shape our world. Proust, Schoenberg, Mahler, and Kafka redefined artistic expression. Emancipation reformed the practice of Judaism, encouraged some to imagine a modern nation of their own, and within decades led to the dream of Zionism.
