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German Men of Letters Vol 1
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German Men of Letters Vol 1

by Alex Natan. 273 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Alex Natan

Publisher:

   O. Wolff

Place of Publication:

  London  

Publication Year:

  1961
Subjects:   Authors, German, German Literature--19th Century, German Literature--20th Century
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Studies in Modern German Literature: Sudermann; Hauptmann; Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
Book by Otto Heller; Ginn & Company, 1905
Subjects: German Literature--19th & 20th Century--History And Criticism, Hauptmann, Gerhart--1862-1946, Sudermann, Hermann--1857-1928, Women--Authors--Germany
...NINETENTH CENTURY BY OTTO HELLER, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ST...as well as in substance. Yet a frank declaration of the authors aim may vindicate him in the judgment even of those who...
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Modern German Literature, 1880-1950
Book by Jethro Bithell; Methuen, 1959
Subjects: German Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, German Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism
...etc., by seventeenth-century German poets. Historically Holz...will live in the annals of literature for the part they played...This is a prolific motif in German literature. It begins with the medieval...and helplessly yielding. German literature has only half a dozen or...
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The Doppelganger: Double Visions in German Literature
Book by Andrew J. Webber; Clarendon Press, 1996
Subjects: Doubles In Literature, German Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, German Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Split Self In Literature
...criticism. 2.German literature--20th century--History and criticism. 3.Doubles in literature. 4.Split self in literature. I.Title...case-history of subjectivity in German writing in and around the nineteenth...case for the subjective condition in German writing since Romanticism, it is...empirically grounded of nineteenth-century texts. By pushing the autonomy of...its limits, the Doppelganger literature marks it out as profoundly relative...
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The Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought
Book by Erich Heller; Bowes & Bowes, 1952
Subjects: German Literature--19th Century, German Literature--20th Century, Literature--Philosophy, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm--1844-1900
...DISINHERITED MIND ESSAYS IN MODERN GERMAN LITERATURE AND THOUGHT ERICH...lyrical poetry to be found within the German language. And more: Faust became...the side of what is great in the literature of the world--and this precisely...
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The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature
Book by Friederike Eigler, Susanne Kord; Greenwood Press, 1997
Subjects: Feminism And Literature--Dictionaries, German Literature--Dictionaries, German Literature--Women Authors--Dictionaries, Women Authors, German--Biography--Dictionaries
...Aysel, 1942-present: Body, Female; Hybridity; Turkish German Literature . The Appendix of Names thus serves as an overview...Index lists page references only. In cases where the authors pseudonym could be mistaken for her actual name, we have...
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The Image of Armeria in German Literature and in the New German Cinema Wim Wenders the American Friend
Journal article by Jürgen E. Schlunk; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 7, 1979
Subjects: Documentary films, German literature, Motion picture directors & producers, United States
...between these positive and negative poles. Yet, how have German authors formulated their literary visions of America? Until the...implies a moral or ideological purpose. Twentieth-century German literature offers brilliant examples of both the fictitious...
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Death in Venice in Literature and Film: Six 20th-Century Versions
Journal article by George B. Von Der Lippe; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 32, 1999
Subjects: Death in Venice (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Mann, Thomas--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Venice, Italy--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...prominent turn-of-the-century German writer Gustav von Aschenbach...tradition in the 20th century is that involving the...experienced across the arts - literature, film, painting and music...Works of Thomas Mann." Germanic Review 59.1 (1984): 11-18...
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The Relationship of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology to 20th Century Art, Literature and Philosophy
Journal article by Ludwig Janus Phd.; Pre- and Peri-natal Psychology Journal, Vol. 8, 1993
...MYTHICAL WORLD-VIEW For the sake of example, I will take German mythology. In it, prebirth experience is projected as a world...Heideggers rural origins, describes the fact of birth. In German, "werfen" (to throw, fling, drop, bring forth, produce) is...
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Japonisme: East-West Renaissance in the Late 19th Century
Journal article by Yoko Chiba; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 31, 1998
Subjects: Aesthetics, Modern--19th century, Art, Japanese--Influence, Europe--Art, Japan--Influence
...published this epoch-making journal solely devoted to Japanese art simultaneously in three languages--French, English, and German--from May 1888 to 1891. The journal contains illustrations of numerous prints and art works as well as Noh masks, and Lequeuxs...
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Multiculturalism in Contemporary German Literature
Journal article by Paul Michael Lützeler, Ellen Feinstan; World Literature Today, Vol. 69, 1995
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...can speak of a multicultural dimension in contemporary German literature was the question to be clarified during a symposium...St. Louis from 24 to 26 March 1995. The papers by the authors and the reports by the Germanists which appear here in...
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'J'accuse ... !': Cartoons of the Dreyfus Affair: Mark Bryant Looks at the Way Caricaturists Viewed the Scandal Engulfing France at the End of the 19th Century
Magazine article by Mark Bryant; History Today, Vol. 57, September 2007
Subjects: Armies--Cases, Armies--Officials and employees, Army officers--Cases, Authors, French--Records and correspondence, Dreyfus, Alfred--Cases, Dreyfus, Alfred--Portrayals, French writers--Records and correspondence, Political cartoons--Social aspects, Treason--Cases, Wrongful convictions (Law)--Cases, Zola, Emile--Records and correspondence
...The worlds of art and literature, like the general public at large, were fiercely partisan in their views on the alleged German spy, and the debate involved such figures as Zola, Proust, Anatole France, Renoir, Cezanne and Monet. Former friends Degas...
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If This Is a Man: Primo Levi's Holocaust Memoirs Stand among the Best Literature of the 20th Century, but His Greatest Creation Was Himself
Magazine article by Mona Simpson; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 299, June 2007
Subjects: A Tranquil Star (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...sight of men and women squatting wherever they could, on the platforms and in the middle of the tracks, and the German passengers openly expressed their disgust: people like this deserve their fate, just look how they behave. These are not...
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Franz Liszt and the Development of 19th-century Pianism: a Re-reading of the Evidence
Magazine article by Alan Davison; Musical Times, Vol. 147, Autumn 2006
Subjects: Composers, Liszt, Franz (1811-86), Musicology
...fixed position.24 Liszts unusual positioning of the hand caused disquiet amongst reviewers from as early as the 18405. A German critic reproached him in 1844, for holding his fingers about the keys in an unnatural or affected manner.25 The Boissier...
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The Month of Cherry Blossom: Elegiac and Exquisite, the Fictions of Yasunari Kawabata Were among the Most Memorable of the 20th Century. Jason Cowley on a Writer Who Knew the Value of Silence
Magazine article by Jason Cowley; New Statesman, Vol. 135, August 21, 2006
Subjects: Authors--Appreciation, Authors--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Authors--Works, Kawabata, Yasunari--Appreciation, Kawabata, Yasunari--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Kawabata, Yasunari--Works, Writers--Appreciation, Writers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Writers--Works
...moral force in our lives, he introduced Japanese readers to Joyce and Proust as well as the work of the surrealists, the German expressionists and Dadaists. Some of his early stories were bold experiments in form: the stream of consciousness, the fractured...
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The 19th-century Ländler: Some Thoughts
Magazine article by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe; Musical Times, Vol. 147, Winter 2006
Subjects: Classical music, Dance, Musical criticism, Musicology, Opera
...has remarked, apropos of this transformation, that the interiority so dear to the Germans was reflected in tlieir literature as dream, analysis, and introspection, and sometimes also as an exploration of the domestic world. The house - that...French authors, and that was perhaps best expressed in opera by Gounod and later by Massenet, often drawing upon key German works, from which they cleansed the harshness and retained, or even developed, the gently subtle elements to which...racine alternative to the flightiness and vigour of the waltz that pushed it aside in breach (as Byron saw it) of 18th-century decorum: Such was the time, nor ever yet was such; Hoops are no more, and petticoats not much; Morals and minuets...
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Fun and Laughter in the Victorian Era; History Laura Davis Looks at a New Book Which Destroys the Myth That 19th Century Life Was Dour and Oppressive
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 16, 2006
...by the current art deco building designed by architect Herbert Rowse, completed in 1939. Judith believes the influx of Germans to Liverpool during the 1800s was responsible for the orchestras following during the last half of the 19th Century "There...
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Theater of Young Fuels Western Life; Writer Finds 19th-Century Start, but Teenage Role Grows after War
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 20, 2007
Subjects: Adolescence, Theater
...both founded in Britain), as well as the Wandervogel (a German analogue to the Boy Scouts). It breezes through criminological...airlines flight. "I thought, if I had been the same age in Germany at that point, would I have actually gotten involved in...
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In the Throes of Madness; to Write Her Latest Novel, a Chester Mother Had to Enter the Mind of a Jewish Girl Banished to an Asylum as a Nymphomaniac after Her Affair with a German Boy
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 23, 2004
...Frankfurt who had breached the racial code by courting a German and then consenting to his intimacy. Thus, with her baby...the pounds 1, 000 Kathleen Fidler Award for unpublished authors. That led to Penguin publishing her first novel, The Edge...
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Found among Douglass' Many Loves: A German Woman Journalist
Newspaper article by Deborah Simmons; The Washington Times, August 29, 1999
Found among Douglass many loves: a German woman journalist by Deborah Simmons Books...is more than a snapshot of black-white relations in 19th-century America. It is a portrait of a woman who devoted much of...
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Author's Nazi Past
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 14, 2006
Subjects: Stewart, Martha, Walesa, Lech
Authors Nazi Past. Byline: Kevin Chaffee, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Authors Nazi past Former Polish president Lech Walesa has demanded that German Nobel laureate for literature Guenter Grass renounce his honorary citizenship of Gdansk...
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Greek Literature, Modern
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Solomos (1798 1857), a poet strongly under the influence of German idealism, whose "Ode to Liberty" became the national anthem...Barnstone, ed., Eighteen Texts: Writings by Contemporary Greek Authors (1972); E. Keeley and P. Bien, ed., Modern Greek Writers...
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Children's Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...variety, as evidenced in the sober, uplifting books of such authors as Thomas Day , Mary Sherwood, and Maria Edgeworth...that time are still popular today. Folk tales collected in Germany by the brothers Grimm were translated into English in 1823...
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Spanish Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...who helped to usher the Enlightenment into Spain. Three authors stood out as notable exceptions in the midst of a general...writers of the Generation of 98 , stimulated by French and German influences and by Ruben Dario and the modernismo...
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Yugoslav Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...nationalist upsurge in the late 18th and early 19th cent. In Slovenia this nationalism, which received much of its impetus from Germany, was weakened by a conflict between religious and secular writers. In Croatia the writers looked to Italy for inspiration...
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Spanish American Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Reyes of Mexico and by Pedro Henriquez Urena of the Dominican Republic. Later on Mariano Picon-Salas of Venezuela and German Arciniegas of Colombia made the essay the vehicle of social, historical, and political ideas in Spanish America. Those...
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