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The Tiger's Tender Touch
In an exploration of Goethe's erotic life through his letters and poems as well as through firsthand observations by his contemporaries, Pruys examines a neglected topic: Goethe's homoeroticism.
Perlen vor die Säue
"Ein unverzichtbares Nachschlagewerk", so urteilt die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Nach dem großen Erfolg von "Bis in die Puppen" nimmt Karl Hugo Pruys die Herausforderung 100 weiterer Redensarten an und forscht im Irrgarten der deutschen Sprache nach Herkunft und Bedeutung von Wendungen, die wir tagtäglich gebrauchen. Haben Sie sich nicht auch schon gefragt, weshalb eine Sache einen Pferdefuß hat oder warum jemand in der Tinte sitzt? Karl Hugo Pruys gibt Antworten!
Bis in die Puppen
Viele Redensarten sind fest im deutschen Sprachschatz verankert. Doch bei genauerer Betrachtung kommt einem manches spanisch vor, was man da sagt. Karl Hugo Pruys nimmt kein Blatt vor den Mund, sondern zeigt dem interessierten Leser, wo der Hund begraben liegt: Ursprung und Bedeutung der hundert populärsten Redensarten auf kurzweilige und verständliche Art erklärt. Damit Sie beim nächsten Small Talk nicht auf dem Schlauch stehen! "Ein unverzichtbares Nachschlagewerk" FAZ
Kohl, Genius of the Present
Biography of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
Goethe Yearbook 9
The latest volume in the respected series, this issue as usual contains cutting-edge criticism on topics of interest to scholars of the period 1770-1832. The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, and is dedicated to Goethe scholarship in North America. It aims above all to encourage and publish original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and the Goethezeit while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world. Volume 9 of the Goethe Yearbook provides cutting-edge literary criticism onworks by Goethe and his contemporaries. Editor Thomas Saine has demonstrated in this respected series that he is especially interested in new critical directions and solid research. The book review section is important for all scholars of 18th-century literature.
Hidden
A charming, witty and wide-ranging collection of brief biographies of closeted gay men in modern and early modern history, Hidden: The Intimate Lives of Gay Men Past and Present includes colorful snapshots of such well-known men as Horatio Alger, Thomas Eakins, King Edward II, Alfred C. Kinsey, and Siegfried Wagner. Readers will find joy and sorrow and pleasure and pain in these 400 biographies of men who were forced to live hidden lives. All were caught in the tension between the torment of secrecy and the calamity of revelation. How did they manage their difficult lives? How indeed did they survive? One who did was James Brooke. He turned his inheritance into a 142 ton schooner, sailed for...
New Makers of Modern Culture
"New Makers of Modern Culture takes into full account the rise and fall of reputation and influence over the last twenty-five years and the epochal changes that have occurred: the demise of Marxism and the collapse of the Soviet Union; the rise and fall of postmodernism; the eruption of Islamic fundamentalism; the triumph of the Internet. Containing over eight hundred essay-style entries, and covering the period from 1850 to the present, New Makers includes artists, writers, dramatists, architects, philosophers, anthropologists, scientists, sociologists, major political figures, composers, film-makers and many other culturally significant individuals and is thoroughly international in its purview. With its global reach, New Makers of Modern Culture provides a multi-voiced witness of the contemporary thinking world. The entries carry short bibliographies and there is thorough cross-referencing. There is an index of names and key terms."--Publisher's description
Becoming Multicultural
In a world of nation-states, international migration raises questions of membership: Should foreigners be admitted to the national space? And should they and their children be granted citizenship? Canada and Germany’s responses to these questions during the first half of the twentieth century consisted of discriminatory immigration and citizenship policies aimed at harnessing migration for economic ends while minimizing its costs. Yet, by the end of the century, the admission, settlement, and incorporation of previously excluded groups had transformed both countries into highly diverse multicultural societies. Becoming Multicultural explains how this remarkable shift came about. Triadafilopoulos argues that dramatic changes in global norms after the Second World War made the maintenance of established membership regimes difficult to defend, opening the way for the liberalization of immigration and citizenship policies. It is a thought-provoking analysis that sheds light on the dynamics of membership politics and policy making in contemporary liberal-democratic countries.
