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Ernst Jünger
Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) ist ein bedeutender Repräsentant der deutschen Geistesgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sein umfangreiches Werk polarisiert bis heute Literaturkritik und Öffentlichkeit, insbesondere wegen des z. T. mit Gewalt verherrlichenden Tendenzen beschworenen, aus seiner Nietzsche-Rezeption erwachsenen 'heroischen Nihilismus' des Frühwerks. Gleichzeitig machen ihn seine Sprach- und Beobachtungskunst, u. a. in seinen Reiseberichten und Tagebüchern, zu einem der wichtigsten Vertreter der neueren deutschen Literatur. Der Band vereint in kompendienhafter Geschlossenheit Analysen zu den wichtigsten Aspekten des Werks, u. a. zu Jüngers Kritik an der Moderne und seinem Konzept e...
The Sword of Judith
The Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading the general of the most powerful imaginable army to free her people. The parabolic story was set as an example of how God will help the righteous. Judith's heroic action not only became a validating charter myth of Judaism itself but has also been appropriated by many Christian and secular groupings, and has been an inspiration for numerous literary texts and works of art. It continues to exercise its power over artists, authors and academics and is becoming a major field of research in its own right. The Sword of Judith is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays to discuss representations of Judith throughout the centuries. It transforms our understanding across a wide range of disciplines. The collection includes new archival source studies, the translation of unpublished manuscripts, the translation of texts unavailable in English, and Judith images and music.
The Naked Truth
"In the popular imagination, turn-of-the-century Vienna is a cerebral place, marked by Freud, the discovery of the unconscious, and the advent of high modernist culture. But as historian Alys George argues, this stereotype of Viennese Modernism as essentially "heady" overlooks a rich cultural history of the body in the period. Spanning 1870 to 1930, The Naked Truth is an interdisciplinary tour de force that recasts the visual, literary, and performative cultures of the era and offers an alternative genealogy of this fascinating moment in the history of the West. Starting with the Second Vienna Medical School and its innovations in anatomy and pathology, George traces an emerging culture of b...
Heads Will Roll
The decapitation motif recurs in nearly all medieval and early modern genres, from saints' lives and epics to comedies and romances, yet decollation is often little regarded, save as a marker of humanity (that is, as the moment mortality exits) or inhumanity (that is, as the moment the supernatural enters). However, as a seat of reason, wisdom, and even the soul, the head has long been afforded a special place in the body politic, even when separated from its body proper. Capitalizing upon the enduring fascination with decapitation in European culture, this collection examines--through a variety of critical lenses--the recurring "roles/rolls" of severed human heads in the medieval and early modern imagination. Contributors are Nicola Masciandaro, Mark Faulkner, Jay Paul Gates, Christine Cooper-Rompato, Dwayne Coleman, Mary Leech, Tina Boyer, Renée Ward, Andrew Fleck, Thomas Herron, Thea Cervone, and Asa Simon Mittman. Preface by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.
In the Embrace of the Swan
Myths determine the way cultures understand themselves. The papers in this volume examine culturally specific myths in Britain and the German-speaking world, and compare approaches to the theory of myth, together with the ways in which mythological formations operate in literature, aesthetics and politics ‐ with a focus on the period around 1800. They enquire into the consequences of myth-oriented discourses for the way in which these two cultures understand each other, and in this way make a significant contribution to a more profound approach to intercultural research.
South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2003
Introductory surveys cover topics of regional importance; individual country chapters include analysis, statistics and directory information; plus information on regional organizations
Writing Time
Writing Time shows how serial literature based in journals and anthologies shaped the awareness of time at a transformative moment in the European literary and political landscapes. Sean Franzel explores how German-speaking authors and editors "write time" both by writing about time and by mapping time itself through specific literary formats. Through case studies of such writers as F. J. Bertuch, K. A. Böttinger, J. W. Goethe, Ludwig Börne, and Heinrich Heine, Franzel analyzes how serial writing predicated on open-ended continuation becomes a privileged mode of social commentary and literary entertainment and provides readers with an ongoing "history" of the present, or Zeitgeschichte. Drawing from media theory and periodical studies as well as from Reinhart Koselleck's work on processes of temporalization and "untimely" models of historical time, Writing Time presents "smaller" literary forms—the urban tableau, cultural reportage, and caricature—as new ways of imagining temporal unfolding, recentering periodicals and other serial forms at the heart of nineteenth-century print culture.
The Inability to Love
The Inability to Love borrows its title from Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich’s 1967 landmark book The Inability to Mourn, which discussed German society’s lack of psychological reckoning with the Holocaust. Challenging that notion, Agnes Mueller turns to recently published works by prominent contemporary German, non-Jewish writers to examine whether there has been a thorough engagement with German history and memory. She focuses on literature that invokes Jews, Israel, and the Holocaust. Mueller’s aim is to shed light on pressing questions concerning German memories of the past, and on German images of Jews in Germany at a moment that s ideologically and historically fraught.
Medusa, The Origins - How a beauty turned into a beast
Greek mythologies and folklore about ancient Greek, Gods, and empire had always aroused curiosity. One among the most vicious and powerful characters in Green folklore was Medusa. Medusa, the serpent haired monstrous, was one among the three Gorgons sisters in Greek mythology who were the daughters of the sea god Phorcys and Ceto the goddess of monsters. Cursed by the goddess Athena, Medusa became more monstrous and her penetrating gaze could make any one turn to stone. Medusa was often represented as a winged female with snakes as her hair and wide mouth with tongue lolling out. Oracle prophecy, Curse from gods, and magical gadgets have always been part of Greek mythologies, the life journey of Perseus played a remarkable shift that somehow led to the tragic death of Medusa. However, the tragic fate of Medusa being raped by Poseidon and beheaded by Perseus will really make us sympathize for her. Let’s have a journey through the eventful folklore of the beautiful Medusa who turned into a monstrous beast.
