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Encyclopedia of the Essay
This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies
Neither German nor Pole
"This is a fascinating local story with major implications for studies of nationalism and regional identities throughout Europe more generally." ---Dennis Sweeney, University of Alberta "James Bjork has produced a finely crafted, insightful, indeed, pathbreaking study of the interplay between religious and national identity in late nineteenth-century Central Europe." ---Anthony Steinhoff, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Neither German nor Pole examines how the inhabitants of one of Europe's most densely populated industrial districts managed to defy clear-cut national categorization, even in the heyday of nationalizing pressures at the turn of the twentieth century. As James E. Bjork ...
Between Two Wars
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Silesia and Central European Nationalisms
This book analyzes the problems of nation building in the Central European region of Silesia in 1848 to 1918. The German ethnic model of nation building steeped in language and culture had been replicated in the case of Polish and Czech nationalisms. Silesia became a focal point as an area that was sought after by all three nations.
Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
Both an expert and a collector, James Geary has devoted his life to aphorisms-and the last few years to organizing, indexing, and even translating them. The result is Geary's Guide, featuring aphorists like Voltaire, Twain, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Woody Allen, Muhammad Ali, Emily Dickinson, and Mae West, as well as international practitioners appearing in English for the first time. But it is more than just a conventional anthology. It is also an encyclopedia, containing brief biographies of each author in addition to a selection of his or her aphorisms. The book is a field guide, too, with aphorists organized into eight different "species," such as Comics, Critics & Satirists; Icons & Icono...
Deutsch-polnische Beziehungen in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Kultur in Epochen und Regionen
In der Bibliographie werden insgesamt 53184 Veroffentlichungen erfasst, klassifiziert und annotiert, die zwischen ca. 1880 und 1998 vor allem in polnischer und deutscher, aber auch in anderen Sprachen erschienen sind. Es sind dies wissenschaftliche, essayistische, in begrenzter Auswahl auch publizistische Veroffentlichungen, die sich mit den Problemen deutsch-polnischer Nachbarschaft zwischen Mittelalter und Gegenwart auseinandersetzen.Die Bibliographie ist gleichermassen als eine wissenschaftliche Dokumentation von Forschungstraditionen wie auch als praktisches Hilfsmittel fur alle konzipiert, die sich als Wissenschaftler, Publizisten, Politiker, Kulturschaffende, Studierende oder Unternehmer mit einem speziellen Aspekt der Beziehungen beschaftigen. Band 1: Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Kultur in Epochen und Regionen (21000 Eintrage)Band 2: Religion, Buch, Presse, Wissenschaft und Bildung, Philosophie und Psychologie (15800 Eintrage)Band 3: Sprache, Literatur, Kunst, Musik, Theater, Film, Rundfunk, Fernsehen (16400 Eintrage)Band 4: Benutzerhinweise, Abkurzungen, Register
