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Otokar Fischer (1883–1938)
In der Persönlichkeit von Otokar Fischer (1838-1938) scheint die faszinierende Vielfalt der Identitäten und Kulturen in Mitteleuropa zwischen 1900 und dem Zweiten Weltkrieg auf. Der Germanist und Literat wurde durch seine fachliche Tätigkeit, sein politisches Engagement sowie sein Charisma zu prägenden Persönlichkeiten innerhalb der deutsch-jüdisch-tschechischen Kultur zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen. Otokar Fischer ist nicht nur eine der bedeutendsten Persönlichkeiten des Prager Kulturlebens zwischen der Jahrhundertwende und dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, sondern er war auch ein international beachteter Wissenschaftler und Intellektueller. Sein Wirken und Schaffen konnte unter dem kommunisti...
Max Brod (1884–1968)
Papers of Tagung zu Max Brod und die Erfindung des Prager Kreises held May 2014 in Prague.
Emil Saudek (1876–1941)
Der Ãœbersetzer Emil Saudek (1876-1941) gehört zu jenen jüdischen Vermittlern zwischen deutschsprachiger und tschechischer Kultur, deren Leben und Wirken bislang kaum beleuchtet wurde. Der Band stellt Saudeks Biografie in einen breiteren kulturgeschichtlichen Kontext und erlaubt spannende Einblicke in das Wien und Prag der Jahrhundertwende sowie die Tschechoslowakei der Zwischenkriegszeit. Emil Saudek wuchs in einer jüdischen Familie in der böhmisch-mährischen Provinz auf, studierte und arbeitete viele Jahre in Wien und ließ sich anschließend in Prag nieder. Neben seiner Beamtentätigkeit übersetzte er die Werke von bedeutenden Autoren wie Otokar BÅ™ezina, Josef S. Machar oder TomáÅ...
Welten nach dem Ende
Mit seinen Szenarien atomar verstrahlter Zukünfte nach einem Dritten Weltkrieg hat Arno Schmidt in den 1950er Jahren die Bedrohungslage der Kerntechnik in literarisch avancierter Form verarbeitet. Aus wissens- und formgeschichtlicher Perspektive analysiert Uta Sommer, wie sich in den Erzähltexten Schwarze Spiegel, Die Gelehrtenrepublik und KAFF auch Mare Crisium die medientechnischen und alltagsweltlichen Bedingungen der Adenauer-Ära niederschlagen und komplexe Verflechtungen von Gegenwart, Zukunft und Vergangenheit ergeben. Ihr Beitrag zur Literaturgeschichte der Nachkriegszeit stellt zudem den sich angesichts globaler Krisen neu artikulierenden sense of an ending in einen größeren Zusammenhang.
Material Ecocriticism
Material Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to this landmark volume focus on material forces and substances, the agency of things, processes, narratives and stories, and making meaning out of the world. This broad-ranging reflection on contemporary human experience and expression provokes new understandings of the planet to which we are intimately connected.
Thomas Mann's War
In Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted. Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature and author of such world-renowned novels as Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, began his self-imposed exile in the United States in 1938, having fled his native Germany in the wake of Nazi persecution and public burnings of his books. Mann embraced his role as a public intellectual, deftly using his literary reputation and his connections in an increasingly global publishing industry to refute Nazi propaganda. As Boes shows, ...
Postcolonial Green
Postcolonial Green brings together scholarship bridging ecocriticism and postcolonialism. Since its inception, ecocriticism has been accused of being inattentive to the complexities that colonialism poses for ideas of nature and environmentalism. Postcolonial discourse, on the other hand, has been so immersed in theoretical questions of nationalism and identity that it has been seen as ignoring environmental or ecological concerns. This collection demonstrates that ecocriticism and postcolonialism must be understood as parallel projects if not facets of the very same project—a struggle for global justice and sustainability. The essays in this collection span the globe, and cover such issue...
Antisemitism in Eastern Europe
Europe is expanding - and therewith remembers its historical basis, which was hidden beneath the shadow of the Cold War for a long time. This return of a common history which is mostly narrated as a history of success today, however contains the perception of transnational traditions at the same time which by contrast should give reason for a critical self-reflection. This volume gives an impulse through a comparative examination of the still highly actual forms of antisemitism in Europe. The focus will be on the developments in the countries from the Baltic States to South Eastern Europe, which usually are little known in Western Europe. At the same time, the specifities of antisemitism in Eastern Europe are incorporated in the theoretical insights of antisemitism research, thus filling a gap that has existed until now.
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment
The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This 2011 book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a theoretical approach to culture more generally, 'ecocriticism' is a varied and fast-changing set of practices which challenges inherited thinking and practice in the reading of literature and culture. This introduction defines what ecocriticism is, its methods, arguments and concepts, and will enable students to look at texts in a wholly new way. Boxed sections explain key critical terms and contemporary debates in the field with 'hands-on' examples and comparisons. Timothy Clark's thoughtful approach makes this an ideal first encounter with environmental readings of literature.
