Download or read book Political Autobiographies and Memoirs in Antiquity written by Gabriele Marasco and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient autobiography has been the object of several studies and meetings. However, these have focused chiefly on the philosophical and literary aspects. This book aims to examine the development of political autobiography and memoirs in the Greek and Roman world, stressing, instead, the relation of a single work with the traditions of the genre and also the influence of the respective aims of the authors on the composition of autobiographies. At times these works were written as a means of propaganda in a political struggle, or to defend a past action, and often to furnish material to historians. Nonetheless, they still preserve the personal viewpoint and voice of the protagonists in all their vividness, even if distorted by the aim of defending their record. Political Autobiographies and Memoirs in Antiquity will be a highly valuable and useful reference tool for both scholars and students of Greek and Roman history and literature.

Download or read book Neue Perspektiven zur deutschsprachigen Literatur der Schweiz written by Romey Sabalius and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enth. u. a.: S. 11-30: Das Bild der USA in der zeitgenössischen Literatur der deutschsprachigen Schweiz / Romey Sabalius. [Betr. u. a. Friedrich Dürrenmatt (S. 13-14), Christoph Geiser (S. 23-25), Gertrud Wilker (S. 25-26) und Peter Bichsel (S. 27-28)]. - S. 52-72: Dialog und Didaxe in Gotthelfs "Uli"--Romanen : mit einem Nachwort zur Mediendebatte / Ernest W.B. Hess-Lüttich. - S. 143-152: Friedrich Dürrenmatts "Besuch der alten Dame" als Höhepunkt der Entwicklung eines Sujets im deutschsprachigen Drama / Dieter Sevin. - S. 153-165: Zur Dramaturgie aporetischen Denkens : Dürrenmatt und Kierkegaard / Roger W. Müller-Farguell. - S. 187-201: Von den Schwierigkeiten des "Unsagbaren": Walter Vogts "Altern" und Christoph Geisers "Wüstenfahrt" / Sibille Tröml. - S. 228-234: Das Territorium der Utopie / Anne-Marie Heintz-Gresser. [Betr. u. a. Paul Nizons "Selbstverpflanzung" nach Paris.].

Download or read book Inscribing Difference and Resistance written by Martina Horáková and published by Masarykova univerzita. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kniha Inscribing Difference and Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Personal Non-fiction and Life Writing in Australia and North America zkoumá, jak literárně-esejistická tvorba domorodých obyvatelek v USA, Kanadě a Austrálii, publikovaná v 90. letech 20. století, přispěla k formování teoretických východisek tzv. Indigenous feminism (indigenní či domorodý feminismus) a zároveň přispěla k přepsání dominantní historiografie v kontextu těchto osadnických kolonií. Rozbor textů Paully Gunn Allen a Anny Lee Walters z USA, Lee Maracle a Shirley Sterling z Kanady a Jackie Huggins a Doris Pilkington Garimara z Austrálie ukazuje, jak tyto autorky využívají hybridní, multi-žánrový styl, kombinující literární kritiku, historiografii, auto/biografické psaní a fikčně laděné příběhy, k literárnímu vyjádření své odlišné kulturní identity, transgeneračního traumatu z kolonizace a resistence vůči násilné asimilaci.

Download or read book Judentum und Antisemitismus written by Anne Betten and published by Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Realit tskonstruktionen in der zeitgen ssischen Kultur written by Susanne Knaller and published by Böhlau Verlag Wien. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realitätskonzepte in der Moderne sind vielfältig, facettenreich und voller Widersprüche: Realität wird als bewusstseinsunabhängige Materie, als ein Konstrukt mentaler oder körperlicher Prozesse, als Ergebnis sprachlicher Strukturen, kultureller Codes oder als Resultat menschlichen Handelns und Herstellens verstanden. Die einzelnen, nach interdisziplinären und intermedialen Gesichtspunkten angelegten Beiträge über Kunst, Werbung, Fernsehen, Musik, Literatur, Fotografie, Video, Film und Neue Medien bieten einen umfassenden Einblick in zeitgenössische Realitätskonzeptionen. Die wissenschaftliche Diskussion von Realitätskonzeptionen wird durch Statements und Kommentare von Künstlerinnen und Künstlern ergänzt. Ausgehend von der Annahme, dass Realitätsbegriffe stets medial vermittelt sind, setzen sich die einzelnen Aufsätze mit verschiedenen Bild-, Körper- und Sprachmedien in ihren Interrelationen auseinander und diskutieren die so eröffneten Möglichkeiten , Realitätskonzepte zu bilden, zu stabilisieren oder zu modifizieren. Dabei werden auch im Kontext der digitalen Techniken brisant gewordene Problemfelder wie Realismus- und Abbildfragen und Zuschreibungen und Modifikationen des Körpers durch die Neuen Medien thematisiert.

Download or read book G nter de Bruyn in Perspective written by Dennis Tate and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1999 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Germany in the 1990s written by Hahn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Introduction. Dennis TATE: Trapped in the past? The identity problems of East German writers since the Wende. Stuart PARKES: Disunity and unity - The inter-German Literaturstreit of the early 1990s. Astrid HERHOFFER: Auf der Suche nach Wahrheit. Helmut PEITSCH: 'Vereinigung': Literarische Debatten über die Funktion der intellektuellen. Ian HUTCHINGS: Reunited Germany: bane or blessing for Europe? John THEOBALD & Gertrud ZUBER: Who wanted unification? Ann KENNARD: Emerging relations between Germany and Poland since German unification. Clive EDWARDS: Trade unions in the new Bundesländer: the shape of things to come? Marilyn FARR: Works councils in the new Bundesländer - the management view. Ulla KITE: Political, economic and social changes and developments since unification: case study Leipzig. Derek LEWIS: The role of language in the fall of the GDR and the aftermath. Hermann KORTE: Zur Lage der Universitäten in Deutschland. Simon GREEN: The European dimension in German schools. Alan BANCE: The impact of the second Gulf War on German political culture and consciousness. David HEAD: 'Made in Germany' in the 1990s. Gisela SHAW: Die Deutschen Rechtsanwälte - eine Profession im Umbruch?

Download or read book Und Immer Z gelloser Wird Die Lust written by Beth V. Linklater and published by Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to expectations, sexual constructions in East German literatures are challenging and diverse. They contribute to, and take issue with, developments in aesthetic form and content, enriching and democratising GDR culture. This book provides a thorough survey of East German art from this new perspective, concentrating specifically upon the iconoclastic work of Irmtraud Morgner and Gabriele Stötzer-Kachold. Both authors use the theme of the erotic not simply in order to break taboos, but - and more importantly - to introduce ideas of utopia, identity and feminism into their art.

Download or read book Gesammelte Werke Autobiographische werke Briefe written by Theodor Fontane and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Zwischen Amnesie und Nostalgie written by Ulf Brunnbauer and published by Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar. This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hannibal written by Eve MacDonald and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of the great Carthaginian general who marched into Rome during the Second Punic War is reexamined in this revealing and scholarly biography. Once of the greatest military minds of the Ancient World, Hannibal Barca lived a life of daring and survival, massive battles, and ultimate defeat. A citizen of Carthage and military commander in Punic Spain, he famously marched his war elephants and huge army over the Alps into Rome’s own heartland to fight the Second Punic War. Yet the Romans were the ultimate victors. They eventually captured and destroyed Carthage, and thus it was they who wrote the legend of Hannibal: a brilliant and worthy enemy whose defeat represented military glory for Rome. In this groundbreaking biography, Eve MacDonald employs archaeological findings and documentary sources to expand the memory of Hannibal beyond his military career. Considering him in the context of his time and the Carthaginian culture that shaped him, MacDonald offers a complex portrait of a man from a prominent family who was both a military hero and a statesman. MacDonald also analyzes Hannibal’s legend over the millennia, exploring how statuary, Jacobean tragedy, opera, nineteenth-century fiction, and other depictions illuminate the character of one of the most fascinating figures in all of history.

Download or read book Discourses on Nations and Identities written by Daniel Syrovy and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of the collected papers of the ICLA congress "The Many Languages of Comparative Literature" includes contributions that focus on the interplay between concepts of nation, national languages, and individual as well as collective identities. Because all literary communication happens within different kinds of power structures - linguistic, economic, political -, it often results in fascinating forms of hybridity. In the first of four thematic chapters, the papers investigate some of the ways in which discourses can establish modes of thinking, or how discourses are in turn controlled by active linguistic interventions, whether in the context of the patriarchy, war, colonialism, or political factions. The second thematic block is predominantly concerned with hybridity as an aspect of modern cultural identity, and the cultural and linguistic dimensions of domestic life and in society at large. Closely related, a third series of papers focuses on writers and texts analysed from the vantage points of exile and exophony, as well as theoretical contributions to issues of terminology and what it means to talk about transcultural phenomena. Finally, a group of papers sheds light on more overtly violent power structures, mechanisms of exclusion, Totalitarianism, torture, and censorship, but also resistance to these forms of oppression. In addition to these chapters, the volume also collects a number of thematically related group sections from the ICLA congress, preserving their original context.

Download or read book A Companion to Marcus Aurelius written by Marcel van Ackeren and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO MARCUS AURELIUS Considered the last of the “Five Good Emperors,” Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman Empire from ad 161 until his death in 180 – yet his influence on philosophy continues to resonate in the modern age through his Meditations. A Companion to Marcus Aurelius presents the first comprehensive collection of essays to explore all essential facets relating to contemporary Marcus Aurelius studies. Featuring contributions from top international scholars in relevant fields, initial readings provide an overview of source material by addressing such topics as manuscript transmission, historical written sources, archaeological evidence, artifacts, and coins. Readings continue with state-of-the-art discussions of various aspects of Marcus Aurelius – his personal biography; political, cultural, and intellectual background; and aspects of his role as emperor, reformer of administration, military leader, and lawgiver. His Meditations are analyzed in detail, including the form of the book, his way of writing, and the various aspects of his philosophy. The final series of readings addresses evolving aspects of his reception. A Companion to Marcus Aurelius offers important new insights on a figure of late antiquity whose unique voice has withstood the centuries to influence contemporary life.

Download or read book Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries written by Sylvia Paletschek and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular presentations of history have recently been discovered as a new field of research, and even though interest in it has been growing noticeably very little has been published on this topic. This volume is one of the first to open up this new area of historical research, introducing some of the work that has emerged in Germany over the past few years. While mainly focusing on Germany (though not exclusively), the authors analyze different forms of popular historiographies and popular presentations of history since 1800 and the interrelation between popular and academic historiography, exploring in particular popular histories in different media and popular historiography as part of memory culture.

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Download or read book Escapees written by Tanja von Fransecky and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the countless stories of resistance, ingenuity, and personal risk to emerge in the years following the Holocaust, among the most remarkable, yet largely overlooked, are those of the hundreds of Jewish deportees who escaped from moving trains bound for the extermination camps. In France, Belgium, and the Netherlands alone over 750 men, women and children undertook such dramatic escape attempts, despite the extraordinary uncertainty and physical danger they often faced. Drawing upon extensive interviews and a wealth of new historical evidence, Escapees gives a fascinating collective account of this hitherto neglected form of resistance to Nazi persecution.