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Survival In Simplicissimus And Mutter Courage
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Author :Cara M. Horwich Publisher :Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers ISBN 13 : Total Pages :176 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Survival in Simplicissimus and Mutter Courage by : Cara M. Horwich
Download or read book Survival in Simplicissimus and Mutter Courage written by Cara M. Horwich and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Hans Grimmelshausen's (1625-76) Simplicissimus and Bertolt Brecht's (1898-1956) Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder share an overriding concern with human survival in a dangerous world. Focuses on the depiction of various threats to survival, how the characters deal with them, and the price they pay for doing so. Finds that both authors hold up the lower clergy as models for survival, a surprise in light of the setting of religious conflict in both works and Brecht's communism. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Cultural Confessionalism by : Grant Henley
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Book Synopsis Reading Rilke's Orphic Identity by : Erika M. Nelson
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Book Synopsis The Poetry of Gottfried Benn by : Martin Travers
Download or read book The Poetry of Gottfried Benn written by Martin Travers and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive study of Gottfried Benn's poetry to appear in English. It covers the entirety of Benn's verse, from his early Morgue cycle (1912) and Expressionist poems through to the «anthropological» poetry of his middle period to the «postmodern» Phase II work after the Second World War. Against the background of the poet's theoretical writings, this study, drawing upon the classic texts of Benn scholarship, analyzes in detail the major themes of his verse and its distinctive idiom. In particular, this work focuses on Gottfried Benn's extended process of rhetorical self-fashioning, his use of classical iconography, color motifs and chiffres, his often confusing historical semantics, the seemingly self-constituting «absolute» poem, and the colloquial idiom of his late verse. The book also engages with the multiplicity of voices in Benn's work and their varied textual forms, the hermeneutically variable positions of speech that they articulate and the often contradictory notion of selfhood to which they give rise.
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Book Synopsis The Art of Survival by : Libby Murphy
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Book Synopsis The Nazi Abduction of Ganymede by : Gary Schmidt
Download or read book The Nazi Abduction of Ganymede written by Gary Schmidt and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The male homosexual appears in many guises in postwar West German literature: whether he is a sexually predatory soldier, corrupt teacher, decadent artist, purveyor of kitsch, or powerful industrialist, he appears almost always as an insider of the social and political system. Writers such as Heinrich Boll, Wolfgang Koeppen and Alfred Anderch utilized images of homosexuality in order to examine the Nazi past and to critique the Federal Republic of Germany. Their literary depictions are infomed by discourses that circulated in the early twentieth century, including the scientism of Magnus Hirschfeld, the masculinism of the German youth movement and the Gemeinschaft der Eigenen, and the literary irony of Thomas Mann. Pre-Nazi images of homosexuality reappear in postwar West German literature in a new sociohistorical context, in which the meaning of the Nazi past and its relationship to the new Federal Republic is debated on many levels. The Nazi Abduction of Ganymede traces the development of a postwar West German literary tradition that participated in parallel developments in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and popular culture, all of which continued to find new ways to link homosexuality with fascism.
Book Synopsis Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children by : Peter Thomson
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Book Synopsis Hans Friedrich Blunck by : W. Scott Hoerle
Download or read book Hans Friedrich Blunck written by W. Scott Hoerle and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Which literary traditions helped carry the Nazis to power? In which parts of Germany were these traditions strongest? This study answers these questions by examining the life and career of one of the Third Reich's most influential literati, the northern G"
Book Synopsis Current Contents. Arts & Humanities by : Institute for scientific information (Philadelphie, Pa).
Download or read book Current Contents. Arts & Humanities written by Institute for scientific information (Philadelphie, Pa). and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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