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A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch

Author : Graham Bartram
Publisher : Studies in German Literature L
ISBN 13 : 1571135413
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch written by Graham Bartram and published by Studies in German Literature L. This book was released on 2019 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is best known for his two major modernist works, The Sleepwalkers (3 vols., 1930-1932) and The Death of Virgil (1945), which frame a lifetime of ethical, cultural, political, and social thought. A textile manufacturer by trade, Broch entered the literary scene late in life with an experimental view of the novel that strove towards totality and vividly depicted Europe's cultural disintegration. As fascism took over and Broch, a Viennese Jew, was forced into exile, his view of literature as transformative was challenged, but his commitment to presenting an ethical view of the crises of his time was unwavering. An important mentor and interlocutor for contemporaries such as Arendt and Canetti as well as a continued inspiration for contemporary authors, Broch wrote to better understand and shape the political and cultural conditions for a postfascist world. This volume covers the major literary works and constitutes the first comprehensive introduction in English to Broch's political, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical writings. Contributors: Graham Bartram, Brechtje Beuker, Gisela Brude-Firnau, Gwyneth Cliver, Jennifer Jenkins, Kathleen L. Komar, Paul Michael Lützeler, Gunther Martens, Sarah McGaughey, Judith Ryan, Judith Sidler, Galin Tihanov, Sebastian Wogenstein. Graham Bartram retired as Senior Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Lancaster, UK. Sarah McGaughey is Associate Professor of German at Dickinson College, USA. Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

The Sleepwalkers

Author : Hermann Broch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781773239071
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Sleepwalkers written by Hermann Broch and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in the US in 1932, The Sleepwalkers is about three protagonists "sleepwalking", that is, living between vanishing and emerging ethical systems just as the somnambulist exists in a state between sleeping and waking. Together they present a panorama of German society and its progressive deterioration of values that culminated in defeat and collapse at the end of World War I. The novel explores what Broch described as "the loneliness of the I" in its three parts. The protagonists of the first two parts of the book are represented as holding to certain sets of values. Broch describes the struggles they undergo as their codes for living, or values, prove inadequate to the realities of the social environment they find themselves in. Joachim von Pasenow in the first part is "the romantic". In the second part, August Esch tries to live according to the motto "business is business". Eventually, in the third part, the amoral Huguenau's only standard for behavior is his personal profit. He follows this maxim in all his actions, swindling and murdering without remorse. Ultimately, he reaches a point of zero values without remorse and his dealings bring him finally to the zero point of values. Although Broch doesn't hold Huguenau up as someone to admire, he does present him as the inevitable harbinger of fascism. As one reviewer noted, "His characters are sleepwalkers because their own lives are shaped by the forces of the nightmare reality in which they live."

The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel

Author : Graham Bartram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521483926
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel written by Graham Bartram and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present. Written by an international team of experts, it encompasses both modernist and realist traditions, and also includes a look back to the roots of the modern novel in the Bildungsroman of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The structure is broadly chronological, but thematically-focused chapters examine topics such as gender anxiety, images of the city, war, and women's writing; within each chapter, key works are selected for close attention. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and detailed analysis of individual works, and featuring a chronology and guides to further reading, this Companion will be indispensable to students and teachers.

The Cambridge Companion to Virgil

Author : Charles Martindale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521498852
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Virgil written by Charles Martindale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.

The Sleepwalkers

Author : Hermann Broch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Sleepwalkers written by Hermann Broch and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Guiltless

Author : Hermann Broch
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810160781
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Guiltless written by Hermann Broch and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Murder, lust, shame, hypocrisy, and suicide are at the center of The Guiltless, Hermann Broch's postwar novel about the disintegration of European society in the three decades preceding the Second World War. Broch's characters - an apathetic man who can barely remember his own name; a high-school teacher and his lover who return from the brink of a suicide pact to carry on a dishonest relationship; Zerline, a lady's maid who enslaves her mistresses, prostitutes the young country girl Melitta, and metes out her own justice against the "empty wickedness" of her betters - are trapped in their indifference, prisoners of a sort of "wakeful somnolence." These men and women may mention the "imbecile Hitler," yet they prefer a nap or sexual encounter to any social action. Broch thought the kind of ethical perversity and political apathy exhibited by his characters paved the way for Nazism. He believed in the purifying power of writing and hoped that by revealing Germany's underlying guilt he could purge indifference from his own and future generations. In The Guiltless, Broch captures how apathy and ennui - very human failings - evolve into something dehumanizing and dangerous." --Book Jacket.

Hermann Broch and Mass Hysteria

Author : Brett E. Sterling
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1640140042
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Hermann Broch and Mass Hysteria written by Brett E. Sterling and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language monograph on Hermann Broch's literary and theoretical work on mass hysteria.

Hermann Broch and Mass Hysteria

Author : Brett E. Sterling
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781787448247
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Hermann Broch and Mass Hysteria written by Brett E. Sterling and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2022 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language monograph on Hermann Broch's literary and theoretical work on mass hysteria.

Kafka's Castle and the Critical Imagination

Author : Stephen D. Dowden
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571130044
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Kafka's Castle and the Critical Imagination written by Stephen D. Dowden and published by Camden House. This book was released on 1995 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kafka's final, unfinished novel The Castle remains one of the most celebrated yet most stubbornly uninterpretable masterpieces of modernist fiction. Consequently it has been a lightning rod for theories and methods of literary criticism. In this chronological study of its fate at the hands of academic and non-academic critics, S. D. Dowden lays emphasis on the acts of critical imagination that have shaped our image and understanding of Kafka and his novel. He explores the historical and cultural contingencies of criticism: from the Weimar Era of Max Brod and Walter Benjamin to Lionel Trilling's Cold War to the postmodern moment of multiculturalism and its turn to "cultural studies." Dowden shows how and why The Castle became a contested site in the imaginative life of each succeeding generation of criticism. In addition, he accounts for those moments at which Kafka's novel escapes, or at least attempts to escape, the gravitational pull of historically anchored understanding. Forthright in its prose, Dowden's is a book essential for anyone, casual reader or professional critic, who hopes to grasp the peculiar difficulties and challenges of Kafka's prose in general and of The Castle in particular.

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004335498
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde examines the ways in which Ancient Greek and Roman culture were appropriated by a global set of authors from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries.

The Unknown Quantity

Author : Hermann Broch
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810160828
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Unknown Quantity written by Hermann Broch and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mild and sensitive Richard Hieck endured a quietly difficult childhood in Germany. Raised in humble circumstances, Richard was profoundly influenced by his withdrawn mother and by his father, an enigma whose devotion centered not on his five children but on his mysterious career. From his father, Richard inherited an interest in the night sky, learning to love the constellations and to take comfort in the strength of Orion and the warm radiance of Venus. Richard's shadowy, elusive father also influenced him to pursue studies in mathematics, a field offering Richard the discipline he had craved as a child." "Published in 1933, The Unknown Quantity is Hermann Broch's study of the underlying chaos - and, finally, the impossibility - of life within a society whose values are in decay. As Richard seeks to reconcile the conflicting demands of love and science, of passion and reason, societal and family values begin to undermine him and those in orbit around him." --Book Jacket.

Hermann Broch

Author : Paul Michael Lützeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Hermann Broch written by Paul Michael Lützeler and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

White-haired Melody

Author : 古井由吉
Publisher : U of M Center for Japanese Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book White-haired Melody written by 古井由吉 and published by U of M Center for Japanese Studies. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditative exploration of aging and approaching death by one of Japan's finest novelists

Bloom and Bust

Author : Gwyneth Cliver
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 178238491X
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book Bloom and Bust written by Gwyneth Cliver and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East — and how the filling of previous absences and the absence of previous presence — creates the cultural landscape of modern unified Germany. This broadens our understanding of this transformation by examining often-neglected cities, spaces, or structures, and historical narration and preservation.

A Companion to the Works of Robert Musil

Author : Philip Payne
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571131108
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Works of Robert Musil written by Philip Payne and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and extensive look at the works of the great Austrian novelist in the context of the German and Austrian culture of his time.

Afterlives of the Roman Poets

Author : Nora Goldschmidt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107180252
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Afterlives of the Roman Poets written by Nora Goldschmidt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book reconceptualises Roman poetry and its reception through the lens of fictional biography ('biofiction').

A Companion to the Works of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Author : Thomas A. Kovach
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571132154
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Works of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal written by Thomas A. Kovach and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Viennese poet, dramatist, and prose writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was among the most celebrated men of letters in the German language at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. His early poems established his reputation as the `child prodigy' of German letters, and a few remain among the most anthologized in the German language. His early lyric dramas prompted no less a judge than T. S. Eliot to pronounce him, along with Yeats and Claudel, one of the three European writers who had done the most to revive verse drama in modern times. His critical essays attest to the subtle powers of discrimination that marked him as one of the most discerning literary critics of the day. And yet he underwent a crisis of cognition and language around 1900, and from then on turned away from poetry and lyric drama almost entirely, concentrating instead on more public forms of drama such as the libretti for Richard Strauss's operas, the plays written for the Salzburg Festival (of which he was a co-founder), and on discursive and narrative prose. The body of work that Hofmannsthal left behind at his premature death is matched in its variety, breadth, and quality by that of only a handful of German writers. And yet posterity has not been kind to his reputation: those who admired the early work for its aesthetic refinement disdained his turn to more popular forms, whereas many of those who might have been receptive to the more committed and public stance of his later work were put off by his conservative politics. This volume of new essays by top Hofmannsthal scholars re-examines his extraordinarily rich and complex body of work, assessing his stature in German and world literature in the new century. Contributors: Katherine Arens, Judith Beniston, Benjamin Bennett, Nina Berman, Joanna Bottenberg, Douglas A. Joyce, Thomas A. Kovach, Ellen Ritter, Hinrich C. Seeba, Andreas Thomasberger, W. Edgar Yates. Professor Thomas Kovach is Head of the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona.