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An Introduction to the Works of Peter Weiss

Author : Olaf Berwald
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571132321
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Works of Peter Weiss written by Olaf Berwald and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Weiss's plays, fiction, autobiography, and non-fiction prose. Pp. 22-25 illuminate "Die Ermittlung", an oratorio based on Weiss's 1964 attendance at the Frankfurt war crimes trial. He used actual documents both aesthetically and politically. 18 of the defendants appear with their real names, either defending themselves with the jargon of doing their duty or totally denying their guilt. Among the charges against these Nazis were conducting medical experiments, torture, and murder. Ch. 7 (pp. 107-129) elucidates Weiss's three-volume novel "Die Ästhetik des Widerstands", about resistance to Nazism in thought and action. The characters in the novel are based on members of the Rote Kapelle resistance group. Politics and creative thinking (art) are shown as complementary, not contradictory.

Understanding Peter Weiss

Author : Robert Cohen
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780872498983
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Peter Weiss written by Robert Cohen and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life & work of the playwright & novelist whose literary stature places him among Boll, Grass, & Frisch as one of the leaders of postwar German literature.

Hölderlin

Author : Peter Weiss
Publisher : German List
ISBN 13 : 9780857427137
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Hölderlin written by Peter Weiss and published by German List. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hölderlin, distinguished German playwright Peter Weiss brings to the page the life and times of one of Germany's greatest poets. Like Trotsky in Exile, Hölderlin presents a biography in the form of a two-act drama. Following its opening in 1971 in Stuttgart, the play was staged numerous times in Germany and Switzerland, and as Robert Cohen explains in his introduction, it was "greeted by accolades as well as by intense criticism since Weiss had dared to revise the image of one of the great heroic figures of German Culture." Weiss explains that he was motivated "to describe something of the conflict that arises in a person who suffers to the point of madness from the injustices, the humiliations in his society, who completely supports the revolutionary upheavals, and yet does not find the praxis with which the misery can be remedied."

Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

Author : Peter Weiss
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826409638
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman written by Peter Weiss and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Weiss (1916-1982) was virtually unknown in the mid-1960s when Peter Brook made Marat/Sade into a film. The weaving of time, space, plot, real-and-imagined characters, sexual liberation, and surrealist imagery made Marat/Sade a sensation. Little did audiences realize that this counterculture classic was written by a German Jew. At that time, Weiss was also at work on a play about Auschwitz: The Investigation. These two dramas are in this volume along with The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman. All are cogently introduced and edited by Robert Cohen.

The New Trial

Author : Peter Weiss
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The New Trial written by Peter Weiss and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2001-04-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFirst-time publication in English, one of Peter Weiss' last works which takes a surreal look at the fortunes of "Josef K," attorney, whose law firm appears to be sincere and appealing to the public while masking a dark, fascistic impulse to ach/div

The German Epic in the Cold War

Author : Matthew D. Miller
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810137348
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The German Epic in the Cold War written by Matthew D. Miller and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Miller’s The German Epic in the Cold War explores the literary evolution of the modern epic in postwar German literature. Examining works by Peter Weiss, Uwe Johnson, and Alexander Kluge, it illustrates imaginative artistic responses in German fiction to the physical and ideological division of post–World War II Germany. Miller analyzes three ambitious German-language epics from the second half of the twentieth century: Weiss’s Die Ästhetik des Widerstands (The Aesthetics of Resistance), Johnson’s Jahrestage (Anniversaries), and Kluge’s Chronik der Gefühle (Chronicle of Feelings). In them, he traces the epic’s unlikely reemergence after the catastrophes of World War II and the Shoah and its continuity across the historical watershed of 1989–91, defined by German unification and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Building on Franco Moretti’s codification of the literary form of the modern epic, Miller demonstrates the epic’s ability to understand the past; to come to terms with ethical, social, and political challenges in the second half of the twentieth century in German-speaking Europe and beyond; and to debate and envision possible futures.

Imagining the Age of Goethe in German Literature, 1970-2010

Author : John David Pizer
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571135170
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Age of Goethe in German Literature, 1970-2010 written by John David Pizer and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first book-length study devoted to modern German "author-as-character" fiction set in the Age of Goethe. It shows for the first time in a sustained manner the powerful hold the Goethezeit continues to exercise on the imagination of many of Germany's leading writers. This inner-German dialogue across the ages provides an important corrective to the dominant critical view that contemporary German-language literature is composed primarily under the sign of both globalization and the influence of mass American culture." -- Book cover.

Meaning and Mind

Author : Ana Margarida Abrantes
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631595930
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Meaning and Mind written by Ana Margarida Abrantes and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Portugal, for the degree of Doctor of German Language and Literature, 2007.

Holocaust Drama

Author : Gene A. Plunka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139477412
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Drama written by Gene A. Plunka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holocaust - the systematic attempted destruction of European Jewry and other 'threats' to the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945 - has been portrayed in fiction, film, memoirs, and poetry. Gene Plunka's study will add to this chronicle with an examination of the theatre of the Holocaust. Including thorough critical analyses of more than thirty plays, this book explores the seminal twentieth-century Holocaust dramas from the United States, Europe, and Israel. Biographical information about the playwrights, production histories of the plays, and pertinent historical information are provided, placing the plays in their historical and cultural contexts.

Peter Weiss: a Search for Affinities

Author : Ian Hilton
Publisher : London : Wolff
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Peter Weiss: a Search for Affinities written by Ian Hilton and published by London : Wolff. This book was released on 1970 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Shadow of the Coachman's Body

Author : Peter Weiss
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811231623
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Shadow of the Coachman's Body written by Peter Weiss and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meticulously observed and macabre tale of hell on earth from the revolutionary German author of the famous play Marat/Sade Peter Weiss’s first prose work, The Shadow of the Coachman’s Body, was unanimously praised as an original and perfect work of art by critics when it appeared in 1960. Here, in poet Rosmarie Waldrop’s stunning translation, Weiss arranges a dark, vividly alive comedy of inert objects in a dismal boarding house—stones, buttons, hooks, needles, chairs, newspapers in an outhouse, clinking tin cups, celestial orbs, sewing machines, an overwound windup music box—which have oblique characters’ shadows as their supporting cast. Described by Weiss as a “micro-novel,” The Shadow of the Coachman’s Body can be obscene, trivial and brutal, and yet it is also peculiarly intimate and offers endless possibilities—like a telescope and kaleidoscope rolled into one.

Conversation of the Three Wayfarers

Author : Peter Weiss
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081123164X
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Conversation of the Three Wayfarers written by Peter Weiss and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fast-moving, tightly-wound, and gleefully dark novella contains an entire universe in miniature Conversation of the Three Wayfarers is a tale overheard, rather than told directly. Abel, Babel, and Cabel, the wayfarers, carry on a three-sided monologue, each reporting curious incidents—the effect is of three capers rolled into one: a steeplechase performed on a floating pontoon. But are they really three distinct individuals? Why do their lives blend in such a fantastic manner? Weiss’s strikingly original prose has an impossibly contained quality, with each sentence doing a perfect double-double backflip before neatly landing. This essential rediscovered work, from the masterful and acclaimed German modernist Peter Weiss, will be a delightful discovery for readers of Kafka, Musil, and Gombrowicz.

Leavetaking [and] Vanishing Point

Author : Peter Weiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Leavetaking [and] Vanishing Point written by Peter Weiss and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

To Have or Have Not

Author : James Fisher
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078648683X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book To Have or Have Not written by James Fisher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a rapidly changing world, the ways in which economic forces affect both personal and global change can be difficult to track, particularly in the arts. This collection of twenty new essays explores both obscure and famous plays dealing with economic issues. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, the text moves from Marx's theories to Wall Street speculation, nineteenth century immigration issues, the excesses of the Gilded Age and the 1920s, the Great Depression, World War II and millennial economic challenges.

Theodor W. Adorno

Author : Gerhard Schweppenhäuser
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822390728
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Theodor W. Adorno written by Gerhard Schweppenhäuser and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) was one of the twentieth century’s most important thinkers. In light of two pivotal developments—the rise of fascism, which culminated in the Holocaust, and the standardization of popular culture as a commodity indispensable to contemporary capitalism—Adorno sought to evaluate and synthesize the essential insights of Western philosophy by revisiting the ethical and sociological arguments of his predecessors: Kant, Nietzsche, Hegel, and Marx. This book, first published in Germany in 1996, provides a succinct introduction to Adorno’s challenging and far-reaching thought. Gerhard Schweppenhäuser, a leading authority on the Frankfurt School of critical theory, explains Adorno’s epistemology, social and political philosophy, aesthetics, and theory of culture. After providing a brief overview of Adorno’s life, Schweppenhäuser turns to the theorist’s core philosophical concepts, including post-Kantian critique, determinate negation, and the primacy of the object, as well as his view of the Enlightenment as a code for world domination, his diagnosis of modern mass culture as a program of social control, and his understanding of modernist aesthetics as a challenge to conceive an alternative politics. Along the way, Schweppenhäuser illuminates the works widely considered Adorno’s most important achievements: Minima Moralia, Dialectic of Enlightenment (co-authored with Horkheimer), and Negative Dialectics. Adorno wrote much of the first two of these during his years in California (1938–49), where he lived near Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, whom he assisted with the musical aesthetics at the center of Mann’s novel Doctor Faustus.

Heights of Reflection

Author : Sean Moore Ireton
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571135022
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Heights of Reflection written by Sean Moore Ireton and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Mountains have always stirred the human imagination, playing a crucial role in the cultural evolution of peoples around the globe and becoming infused with meaning in the process. Beyond their geographical-geological significance, mountains affect the topography of the mind, whether as objects of peril or attraction, of spiritual enlightenment or existential fulfillment, of philosophical contemplation or aesthetic inspiration. This volume challenges the oversimplified assumption that human interaction with mountains is a distinctly modern development, one that began with the empowerment of the individual in the wake of Enlightenment rationalism and Romantic subjectivity. These essays by European and North American scholars examine the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, with a focus on the interaction between humans and the alpineenvironment. The contributors consider mountains not as mere symbolic tropes or literary metaphors, but as constituting a tangible reality that informs the experiences and ideas of writers, naturalists, philosophers, filmmakers, and composers. Overall, this volume seeks to provide multiple answers to questions regarding the cultural significance of mountains as well as the physical practice of climbing them. Contributors: Peter Arnds, Olaf Berwald, Albrecht Classen, Roger Cook, Scott Denham, Sean Franzel, Christof Hamann, Harald Höbusch, Dan Hooley, Peter Höyng, Sean Ireton, Oliver Lubrich, Anthony Ozturk, Caroline Schaumann, Heather I. Sullivan, Johannes Türk, Sabine Wilke, Wilfried Wilms. SEAN IRETON is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri. CAROLINE SCHAUMANN is Professor of German Studies at Emory University.

The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II

Author : Peter Weiss
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478007567
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II written by Peter Weiss and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major literary event, the publication of the second volume of Peter Weiss's three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. The crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the internationally renowned writer best known for his play Marat/Sade, The Aesthetics of Resistance spans the period from the late 1930s to World War II, dramatizing antifascist resistance and the rise and fall of proletarian political parties in Europe. Volume II, initially published in 1978, opens with the unnamed narrator in Paris after having retreated from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War. From there, he moves on to Stockholm, where he works in a factory, becomes involved with the Communist Party, and meets Bertolt Brecht. Featuring the narrator's extended meditations on paintings, sculpture, and literature, the novel teems with characters, almost all of whom are based on historical figures. Throughout, the narrator explores the affinity between political resistance and art—the connection at the heart of Weiss's novel. Weiss suggests that meaning lies in embracing resistance, no matter how intense the oppression, and that we must look to art for new models of political action and social understanding. The Aesthetics of Resistance is one of the truly great works of postwar German literature and an essential resource for understanding twentieth-century German history.