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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Gedichte, Dramen, Prosa written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernst Toller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 493 pages
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Download or read book Prosa, Briefe, Dramen, Gedichte. Mit Einem Vorwort Von Kurt Hiller written by Ernst Toller and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Augustinus P. Dierick
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442638265
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book German Expressionist Prose written by Augustinus P. Dierick and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1987-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extreme sensitivity to gathering social crisis, an accompanying angry enthusiasm for artistic experimentation and renewal – this compelling mix in German art, poetry, and drama of the period 1910 to 1925 continues to draw both scholarly attention and intense popular interest. In this book Augustinus Dierick focuses on another significant but hitherto neglected medium of German Expressionist thought – short narrative prose – in order to illuminate and evaluate the contribution of that genre to one of the twentieth century's most powerful artistic movements. Dierick's study includes a thorough analysis of the works of a broad range of Expressionist prose writers, from those of such specialists in the genre as Edschmid, Heym, Benn, Loerke, Frank, Sternheim, Ehrenstein, and 'Mynona' to the shorter prose works of such major figures as Alfred Döblin, Heinrich Mann, Max Brod, and Franz Werfel. Dierick isolates the thematic obsessions common among Expressionist writers: the pathos of the self in confrontation with nature and with God, the tension between self and the institutions of bourgeois society, and the attractions and dangers of eroticism. Throughout Dierick stresses the interrelationship between themes and their formal expression. He examines many apparent excesses in style and tone, many aberrations in structure and generic characteristics, and identifies them not as needless experimentation but as a necessary result of the attempt to find appropriate forms for extreme situations and complex ideas. Dierick's analysis makes clear that Expressionist prose has an intrinsic artistic value and, because of certain nuances and different accents, must be included in any estimation of the nature and importance of Expressionism as a whole.
Author : Christa Spreizer
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571131300
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (313 download)
Download or read book From Expressionism to Exile written by Christa Spreizer and published by Camden House. This book was released on 1999 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first general study in English on the German Expressionist writer Walter Hasenclever (1890-1940) and the first that draws upon new materials found in his collected works, which were completed in 1997. It draws additionally on the author's archival research in eastern Germany. Spreizer's work deals with the life and writings of this major figure in the Expressionist literary movement, first known for his volume of Expressionist poetry Der Jungling (1913), and best known today for his groundbreaking Expressionist drama Der Sohn (1914).
Author : Matthias Konzett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113594122X
Total Pages : 1159 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of German Literature written by Matthias Konzett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 1159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.
Author : Cecil Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134361858
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book The Plays of Ernst Toller written by Cecil Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the fullest and most detailed study yet published in English of Ernst Toller's plays and their most significant productions. In particular the productions directed by Karl-Heinz Martin, Jurgen Fehling and Erwin Piscator are closely analyzed and the author demonstrates how, brilliant though they were, they obscured or even distorted Toller's intentions. The plays are seen as eminently stage-worthy while worth lies in Toller's use of language, both in prose and inverse. The neglected puppet-play The Scorned Lovers' Revenge is analyzed from a new perspective in the light, both of its language and its sexual theme, so important in Toller's writings as a whole. The reader is led to appreciate why Toller was regarded as the most outstanding German dramatist of his generation until, after his death in 1939 his reputation was overlaid by that of Brecht. This book should do much to restore Toller to his proper place in theatre history.
Author : Raymond Furness
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134747632
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Twentieth-Century German Literature written by Raymond Furness and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing entries on over four hundred authors of fiction, poetry and drama from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, this invaluable work of reference presents material of a range and depth that no other book on the subject in English attains. For the second edition, the entries have been updated to include the most recent works of German literature. A number of new entries have been added, dealing in particular with the East German literary scene and the changing literary landscape after reunification. In addition to basic biographical facts, the Companion offers summaries, information on involvement in literary groups and political developments, schools and movements, critical terms and aspects of the other arts, including film.
Author : Robert P. Newton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110891018
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Form in the Menschheitsdämmerung written by Robert P. Newton and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Hoelzel
Publisher : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Walter Hasenclever's Humanitarianism written by Alfred Hoelzel and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Hasenclever (1890-1940) is known primarily as an Expressionist writer. This critical study, the first comprehensive one in English, analyzes his entire oeuvre from his early Expressionist works to his newspaper feuilletons and the later satirical comedies, including several unpublished works. This analysis reveals that all of Hasenclever's writings, no matter whether Expressionist or satirical, share one basic and recurrent theme: protest against the injustices and hypocrisies of his age and his society.
Author : Christian Berg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110140187
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Turn of the Century written by Christian Berg and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1995 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rewritten versions of contributions to an international conference held at the University of Antwerp in May 1992. Starting point for the conference was the vagueness of the very terms 'modernism' and 'modernity'. In the first section a group of comparatists address the theoretical and terminological problems of modernism. Practical readings of modernist writers; discussions of different modernist movements; and, the work of critics who have contributed to debates about modernism make up the second section. The third section looks at the problem of modernism from an interartistic and interdisciplinary perspective.
Author : István Deák
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Weimar Germany's Left-Wing Intellectuals written by István Deák and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geert Buelens
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784781509
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Everything to Nothing written by Geert Buelens and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poets’ Great War: violence, revolution and modernism The First World War changed the map of Europe forever. Empires collapsed, new countries were born, revolutions shocked and inspired the world. This tumult, sometimes referred to as ‘the literary war’, saw an extraordinary outpouring of writing. The conflict opened up a vista of possibilities and tragedies for poetic exploration, and at the same time poetry was a tool for manipulating the sentiments of the combatant peoples. In Germany alone during the first few months there were over a million poems of propaganda published. We think of war poets as pacifistic protestors, but that view has been created retrospectively. The verse of the time, particularly in the early years of the conflict—in Fernando Pessoa or Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, for example—could find in the violence and technology of modern warfare an awful and exhilarating epiphany. In this cultural history of the First World War, the conflict is seen from the point of view of poets and writers from all over Europe, including Rupert Brooke, Anna Akhmatova, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Rainer Maria Rilke and Siegfried Sassoon. Everything to Nothing is the award-winning panoramic history of how nationalism and internationalism defined both the war itself and its aftermath—revolutionary movements, wars for independence, civil wars, the treaty of Versailles. It reveals how poets played a vital role in defining the stakes, ambitions and disappointments of postwar Europe.
Author : Rüdiger Görner
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1912208822
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Kokoschka written by Rüdiger Görner and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) achieved global fame with his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. In this first English-language biography, Rüdiger Görner depicts the artist in all his fascinating and contradictory complexity. He traces Kokoschka’s path from bête noire of the bourgeoisie and “hunger artist” who had to flee the Nazis to a wealthy and cosmopolitan political and critical artist who played a significant role in shaping the European art scene of the twentieth century and whose relevance is undiminished to this day. In Kokoschka: A Life in Art, Görner emphasizes the artist’s versatility. Kokoschka, although best known for his expressionistic portraits and landscapes, was more than a mere visual artist: his achievements as a playwright, essayist, and poet bear witness to a remarkable literary talent. Music, too, played a central role in his work, and a passion for teaching led him to establish in 1953 the School of Seeing, an unconventional art school intended to revive humanist ideals in the horrific aftermath of war. This biography shows brilliantly how all the pieces of Kokoschka’s disparate interests and achievements cohered in the richly creative life of a singular artist.
Author : Marc Ferro
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472112806
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Meetings in No Man's Land written by Marc Ferro and published by Constable. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The soldiers' 'football match' and the unofficial ceasefire of Christmas 1914 has become a legend of the Great War, but fraternization between enemy troops was actually widespread. In winter 1914, after months of marching, soldiers on both fronts began to dig trenches, and the war became a battle of attrition in which young men faced each other across what was often only a few yards of the muddy, bombed landscape called No Man's Land. Trapped in this devastation the soldiers of both armies experienced a shared feeling of pointlessness that culminated in the unofficial armistice of Christmas 1914, when German and English soldiers laid down their weapons for a few hours of joyful peace and carol singing. Using original research from the best European historians and discovering a history forgotten or lost in censor reports, officer journals and official reports, these brief moments of humanity are explored on all fronts during the long years of conflict.
Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940092335X
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Elemental Passions of the Soul Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: Part 3 written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ben Lieberman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789205883
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book From Recovery to Catastrophe written by Ben Lieberman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of the stabilization phase of Weimar Germany tend to identify German recovery after the First World War with the struggle to revise reparations and control hyperinflation. Focusing primarily on economic aspects is not sufficient, however, the author argues; the financial burden of recovery was only one of several major causes of reaction against the republic. Drawing on material from major German cities, he is able to trace the emergence of strong local activism and of comprehensive and functional policies of recovery on the municipal level which enjoyed broad political backing. Ironically, these same programs that created consensus also contained the potential for destabilization: they unleashed intense debate over the needs of the consumersand the purpose and extent of public spending, and with that of government intervention more generally, which accelerated the fragmentation of bourgeois politics, leading to the final destruction of the Weimar Republic.
Author : Istvan Deak
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520310284
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Weimar Germany's Left-Wing Intellectuals written by Istvan Deak and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Germany between the two world wars, which produced some of the greatest literary lights of the century, also produced a forum worthy of them: the brilliantly edited, crusading, lef-oriented (but not party-affiliated) Weltbühne. The present book tells the history of this weekly Berlin journal, discusses the men that ran it and wrote it, and outlines the causes for which it fought. The Weltbühne had three editors--the uncompromising style-conscious Siegfried Jacobsohn, the sharp-tongued, satirical Kurt Tucholsky, and the enigmatic, aristocratic Carl von Ossietzky, martyred by the Nazis. The radical, intellectual elite of Germany (and to come extent outside Germany) contributed to the journal -- Heinrich Mann, Alfred Polgar, Erich Kästner, Alfred Doblin, Bertolt Brecht, Leonhard Frank, Theodor Plievier, Rene Schickele, Lion Feuchtwanger, Ernst Toller, Arnold Zweig; also Arthur Koestler, Romain Rolland, Henry Barbusse, and Leon Trotsky. These men stood for the demilitarization of Germany, the purge of the reactionary administration and judiciary, the end of all restraints on human rights (including the restraints on abortion and homosexuality), complete equality of women, pacifist educational policies, the intellectualization of politics and politicization of the intellectuals, unity of the working-class parties, and socialism. When, on May 11, 1933, on Opera Square in Berlin, the stormtroopers burned books of fifteen authors sinning against the German Volk, thirteen of them had made contribution to the Weltbühne; and since many of them were Jews, the auto-da-fé gave special pleasure to the mob. Mr. Deak recreates with unusual empathy the atmosphere of the era, characterized by terrific social and political issues, which eventually lead to the disaster of the Thirties. The campaigns of the Weltbühne failed, and the contributors were killed or went into exile, with the journal itself moving from Berlin to Vienna to Prague to Paris before it died. Mr. Deak makes a lasting contribution to history by opening to a broader public the records preserved in the pages of this important but largely ignored journal, by selecting and interpreting the issues, and by brining to life the personalities that gave the era its intellectual profile. And understanding of the Weltbühne campaigns is indispensable for an appraisal of Central European politics in the first half of our century. Mr. Deak, in this readable book written with the passionate interest of a person who seems to have been a participant rather than a chronicler, makes this understanding possible by a lucid exposition and a searching analysis of the events. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.
