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Heinrich Mann's Novels and Essays
The first full-length study in English of Heinrich Mann's literary work and political activism. Heinrich Mann, once counted among the most important literary figures in Germany, is known to most English-speaking readers only as the brother of Thomas Mann, or in connection with Marlene Dietrich and the film "The Blue Angel,"which was based on one of his novels. Only a few of his novels and stories and virtually none of his hundreds of provocative essays are available in English. But he deserves special attention for the window his work provides ontothe intellectual, social, and political history of Germany, especially Germany's struggle with the question of democracy in the early twentieth ce...
Heinrich Mann
This book focuses on Heinrich Mann's representations of Wilhelmine Germany written between 1895 and 1925. A major figure in German literature and intellectual history, Heinrich Mann has stirred controversy among scholars for the divisive political and social themes in his novels and essays and for having reversed his positions on these issues - from a decidedly conservative stance in his youth to an increasingly left-liberal outlook. In contrast to previous studies that trace the development of Mann's thought, this book divides Mann's earlier writings into two distinct types of narrative: a contemporary commentary at the turn of the century; and a historical assessment of the Wilhelmine era after 1918. In this manner, the early period is not dismissed as a passing phase, but described as part of the discourses circulating in 1890s Germany. The later historical retrospectives, in turn, are compared against the assessments of recent historians. Heinrich Mann: Narratives of Wilhelmine Germany, 1895-1925 emphasizes the role of ideology, literary form, and historical perspective in the construction of history.
Das Europa der Literatur
Annotation Europe? That is an invention of poets, Heinrich Mann said, referring to a relationship which has existed for centuries: the relationship between European literature and Europe as its theme. Empire, civilization, United States, regulatory force or peace project - especially in the 19th and 20th centuries the most diverse ideas of Europe were formulated and discussed in literary works. From their exemplary analysis of the works of nine authors, the study develops an understanding of the special relationship between literature and Europe.
Uniform Fantasies
Starting in the nineteenth century in Germany, colourful military uniforms became a locus for various queer male fantasies, fostering an underground sexual economy of male prostitution as well as a political project to exploit the army’s prestige for queer emancipation. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, a series of scandals derailed this emancipatory project. Simultaneously, public debates began to invoke homosexuality, sadism, transvestism, and other sexological concepts to criticize military policies and practices. In pursuing the threads with which queer authors and activists stitched their fantasies about uniforms, Jeffrey Schneider offers fresh perspectives on key...
Der Krieg in Briefen 1938-1949
Das hier ist ein Sachbuch. Keine Fiktion und schon gar kein Heldenepos. Dennoch ist in dieser Geschichte von Dieter Schoeller und seiner Grossfamilie aus den Kriegsjahren ein Spannungsbogen verborgen. Er reicht von Karins Geburt in der luxuriösen Villa ihrer Grosseltern bis zum Einzug der wieder vereinten Familie, neun Jahre später in die bescheidene Dürener Baracke am Fabrikgelände.
Thomas Mann und die politische Neuordnung Deutschlands nach 1945
Der Band diskutiert Thomas Manns essayistische und poetische Auseinandersetzungen zur politischen Gestaltung Deutschlands nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs und des Nationalsozialismus: Welche ästhetischen Linien lassen sich von der Weimarer Republik über das Exil bis in die frühe BRD verfolgen? Welche Bedeutung kommt Thomas Mann und seinem Werk in Ost und West zu? Wie verortet sich der Autor politisch und an welche Denktraditionen knüpft er an?
Genocide Before the Holocaust
This innovative and ambitious work is a systematic examination of the many instances of genocide that took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century centuries that were precursors to the Holocaust. There is an appalling symmetry to the many instances of genocide that the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century world witnessed. In the wake of the break-up of the old Hapsburg, Ottoman and Romanov empires, minority populations throughout those lands were persecuted, expelled and eliminated. The reason for the deplorable decimations of communities - Jews in Imperial Russia and Ukraine, Ottoman Assyrians, Armenians and Muslims from the Caucasus and Balkans - was, Cathie Carmic...
De humanisten
Een wervelend verhaal over de geschiedenis van het humanisme, een levensbeschouwing die de wereld totaal veranderde. Voor de lezers van 'De existentialisten' en 'Rebelse genieën'. Sarah Bakewell schetst de fascinerende geschiedenis van het humanisme: het verhaal van mensen die zelf wilden denken, los van traditie en georganiseerde religie. Deze vrijdenkers maakten het wereldbeeld dat in het Westen nog steeds het onze is en deden baanbrekende ontdekkingen in wetenschap, filosofie, literatuur en beeldende kunst. Bakewell onderzoekt wat humanisme is en hoe het door de geschiedenis heen tot bloei is gekomen ondanks tegenstand van fanatici, mystici, tirannen en cultuurpessimisten. Over haar boek De existentialisten: ‘Een heerlijk en zeer origineel boek.’ – Trouw
Humanamente possível
A curiosidade intelectual, a empatia e o otimismo que caracterizam o pensamento humanista servem de inspiração há séculos. Sarah Bakewell reúne neste livro as mais extraordinárias jornadas de homens e mulheres que, desde os anos 1300 até os nossos dias, revolucionaram o modo de pensar e existir no mundo. Ao longo dos séculos, houve muitos humanistas. Foram estudiosos exilados, andarilhos que sobreviviam de expedientes e palavras. No início da era moderna, vários deles se complicaram com a Inquisição. Outros tentaram se manter a salvo escondendo o que pensavam, às vezes tão bem que até hoje não fazemos ideia do que achavam. Formas humanistas de pensamento emergiram de muitas c...
