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Book Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany  1880 1920

Download or read book Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany 1880 1920 written by Katharina Herold-Zanker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920 examines the Orientalist portrayal of Middle Eastern cultures in Decadent Literatures in England and Germany at the turn of the century. This book argues that the role of Orientalism in literary Decadence uniquely exposes its paradoxical engagement with other cultures. In bringing together two fin-de-siècle European literatures, this comparative study makes a case for the transnational, if not imperial, nature of Decadence. The East emerges as an 'indispensable' mediator between various versions of European Decadence. The book examines the role of the East with specific reference to selected English and German authors: starting from Oscar Wilde's Victorian vision of Egypt and Arthur Symons's and Violet Fane's image of Constantinople, it moves to Paul Scheerbart's and Else Lasker-Schüler's Decadent Babylon and Assyria and concludes by turning to Stefan George's exclusion of the East from his poetic practice. The geographical reach of the East focuses on regions of the Eastern Mediterranean and Northern Africa. The cultural translation of specifically the Middle East into different European national contexts gains new—sometimes oppositional—meanings, avoiding a one-sided representation of both the East and the two national literatures that absorbed it. In arguing for a Decadent cosmopolitanism as a model of heterogeneous inclusivity that reaches beyond the binaries established by Edward Said's Orientalism, the present book brings twenty-first century theories of cosmopolitanism into dialogue with art history and literature to uncover striking synergies and interdependences between the different manifestations of Decadence in England and Germany.

Book Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany  1880 1920

Download or read book Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany 1880 1920 written by Katharina Herold-Zanker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature written in England and Germany, exploring the relationship between Orientalism, Decadence, and cosmopolitanism, arguing that representations of the East played a critical role in the literary landscape of Decadence over this period.

Book The Black Mirror and Other Stories

Download or read book The Black Mirror and Other Stories written by Franz Rottensteiner and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handsomely equipped with a comprehensive introductory historical essay, editor's notes and selected bibliography, this distinguished anthology is a model of genre research. These previously untranslated stories, published from 1871 onward, offer reading virtually unknown to most American (and many German) readers. Some authors combine scientific and philosophical issues, like Kurd Lasswitz in his witty tale "To the Absolute Zero of Existence: A Story from 2371, " while others, as in Erik Simon's 1983 title story, pose psychological puzzles involving alien phenomena. Though the earlier stories in particular demand painstaking reading, all of them repay it with rewarding insights into German and Austrian culture and the many possible uses and misuses of science.

Book Wir sind die Deinen

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  • Author : Martin Camaj
  • Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9783447062213
  • Pages : 604 pages

Download or read book Wir sind die Deinen written by Martin Camaj and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mit dem Gedenkband "Wir sind die Deinen" fur Martin Camaj (21.07.1925-12.03.1992), der von 1971 bis 1988 die erste Professur fur Albanologie im deutschsprachigen Raum innehatte, mochten 33 ehemalige Freunde, Schuler, Kollegen und Kenner seines literarischen und wissenschaftlichen Werkes ein Zeichen ihrer personlichen und wissenschaftlichen Verbundenheit setzen.Mehr als eine einfache Widmung an diese zentrale Figur der albanischen Exilliteratur und der albanologischen Forschung in der zweiten Halfte des letzten Jahrhunderts ist der von Bardhyl Demiraj herausgegebene Gedenkband bestrebt, den Kenntnisstand in verschiedenen Bereichen der albanologischen Forschung darzustellen und die Albanologie als komplexe Disziplin zu prasentieren. Dabei werden denjenigen Fragen besondere Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt, die den Schwerpunkten im Wirkungsfeld des Schriftstellers und Albanologen Martin Camaj Rechnung tragen, darunter Albanische Sprachwissenschaft und Literaturwissenschaft und Volks- und Kulturgeschichte. Der Band richtet sich an alle verwandten Disziplinen sowie an alle Interessenten albanischer und balkanischer Themenbereiche.

Book International Review Of Biblical Studies 2003 2004

Download or read book International Review Of Biblical Studies 2003 2004 written by Bernhard Lang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formerly known by its subtitle "Internationale Zeitschriftenschau fur Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete," the "International Review of Biblical Studies" has served the scholarly community ever since its inception in the early 1950's. Each annual volume includes approximately 2,000 abstracts and summaries of articles and books that deal with the Bible and related literature, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, Non-canonical gospels, and ancient Near Eastern writings. The abstracts - which may be in English, German, or French - are arranged thematically under headings such as e.g. "Genesis," "Matthew," "Greek language," "text and textual criticism," "exegetical methods and approaches," "biblical theology," "social and religious institutions," "biblical personalities," "history of Israel and early Judaism," and so on. The articles and books that are abstracted and reviewed are collected annually by an international team of collaborators from over 300 of the most important periodicals and book series in the fields covered.

Book The Jewish Quarterly Review

Download or read book The Jewish Quarterly Review written by Claude Goldsmid Montefiore and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of Ethnic Microhistory

Download or read book Journal of Ethnic Microhistory written by Walther Friesen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-02 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two articles in issue 6, IV-2023 of "Journal of Ethnic Microhistory". The investigative essay "Warning Against Emigration to the Caucasus" by Walther Friesen is based on the article published on 10 May 1860 in Dortmunder Kreisblatt (The Newspaper of Dortmund Dictrict). It outlines the situation of Swabian pietists from Württemberg who came to the South Caucasus at the invitation of Emperor of Russia Alexander I. The author portrays the history of German expatriates on that territory from 1818 to 1941. The critical review "About Those who Went Through All the Hardships with their People (Notes about Soviet German literature)" by Hugo Wormsbecher is devoted to the development of Russia-German literature before 1989. The contribution is written in German and preceded by an English abstract.

Book International Review of Biblical Studies  Volume 50  2003 2004

Download or read book International Review of Biblical Studies Volume 50 2003 2004 written by Bernhard Lang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formerly known by its subtitle "Internationale Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete", the International Review of Biblical Studies has served the scholarly community ever since its inception in the early 1950's. Each annual volume includes approximately 2,000 abstracts and summaries of articles and books that deal with the Bible and related literature, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, Non-canonical gospels, and ancient Near Eastern writings. The abstracts - which may be in English, German, or French - are arranged thematically under headings such as e.g. "Genesis", "Matthew", "Greek language", "text and textual criticism", "exegetical methods and approaches", "biblical theology", "social and religious institutions", "biblical personalities", "history of Israel and early Judaism", and so on. The articles and books that are abstracted and reviewed are collected annually by an international team of collaborators from over 300 of the most important periodicals and book series in the fields covered.

Book International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature Chiefly in the Fields of Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences

Download or read book International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature Chiefly in the Fields of Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Review of Biblical Studies  Volume 49  2002 2003

Download or read book International Review of Biblical Studies Volume 49 2002 2003 written by Bernhard Lang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formerly known by its subtitle “Internationale Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete”, the International Review of Biblical Studies has served the scholarly community ever since its inception in the early 1950’s. Each annual volume includes approximately 2,000 abstracts and summaries of articles and books that deal with the Bible and related literature, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, Non-canonical gospels, and ancient Near Eastern writings. The abstracts – which may be in English, German, or French - are arranged thematically under headings such as e.g. “Genesis”, “Matthew”, “Greek language”, “text and textual criticism”, “exegetical methods and approaches”, “biblical theology”, “social and religious institutions”, “biblical personalities”, “history of Israel and early Judaism”, and so on. The articles and books that are abstracted and reviewed are collected annually by an international team of collaborators from over 300 of the most important periodicals and book series in the fields covered.

Book Haeckel s Embryos

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nick Hopwood
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2015-05-11
  • ISBN : 022604713X
  • Pages : 397 pages

Download or read book Haeckel s Embryos written by Nick Hopwood and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictures from the past powerfully shape current views of the world. In books, television programs, and websites, new images appear alongside others that have survived from decades ago. Among the most famous are drawings of embryos by the Darwinist Ernst Haeckel in which humans and other vertebrates begin identical, then diverge toward their adult forms. But these icons of evolution are notorious, too: soon after their publication in 1868, a colleague alleged fraud, and Haeckel’s many enemies have repeated the charge ever since. His embryos nevertheless became a textbook staple until, in 1997, a biologist accused him again, and creationist advocates of intelligent design forced his figures out. How could the most controversial pictures in the history of science have become some of the most widely seen? In Haeckel’s Embryos, Nick Hopwood tells this extraordinary story in full for the first time. He tracks the drawings and the charges against them from their genesis in the nineteenth century to their continuing involvement in innovation in the present day, and from Germany to Britain and the United States. Emphasizing the changes worked by circulation and copying, interpretation and debate, Hopwood uses the case to explore how pictures succeed and fail, gain acceptance and spark controversy. Along the way, he reveals how embryonic development was made a process that we can see, compare, and discuss, and how copying—usually dismissed as unoriginal—can be creative, contested, and consequential. With a wealth of expertly contextualized illustrations, Haeckel’s Embryos recaptures the shocking novelty of pictures that enthralled schoolchildren and outraged priests, and highlights the remarkable ways these images kept on shaping knowledge as they aged.

Book International Review of Biblical Studies  Volume 51  2004 2005

Download or read book International Review of Biblical Studies Volume 51 2004 2005 written by Bernhard Lang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. Formerly known by its subtitle "Internationale Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete", the International Review of Biblical Studies has served the scholarly community ever since its inception in the early 1950's. Each annual volume includes approximately 2,000 abstracts and summaries of articles and books that deal with the Bible and related literature, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, Non-canonical gospels, and ancient Near Eastern writings. The abstracts - which may be in English, German, or French - are arranged thematically under headings such as e.g. "Genesis", "Matthew", "Greek language", "text and textual criticism", "exegetical methods and approaches", "biblical theology", "social and religious institutions", "biblical personalities", "history of Israel and early Judaism", and so on. The articles and books that are abstracted and reviewed are collected annually by an international team of collaborators from over 300 of the most important periodicals and book series in the fields covered.

Book Bulgarian historical review

Download or read book Bulgarian historical review written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bakers Review

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 858 pages

Download or read book Bakers Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Brewers  Review

Download or read book American Brewers Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sadness and Melancholy in German language Literature and Culture

Download or read book Sadness and Melancholy in German language Literature and Culture written by Mary Cosgrove and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on "Sadness and Melancholy in German-language Literature and Culture," volume 6 investigates the often subversive function and meaning of sadness and melancholy in German-language literature and culture from the seventeenth century to the present where, arguably, it has fallen from the heights of melancholy genius and artistic creativity of earlier epochs to become the embarrassing other of a Western civilization that prizes happiness as the mark of successful modern living. Interrogating the distinction between sadness as an anthropological constant and melancholy as a shifting cultural discourse, the contributions explore how different authors use established literary and cultural topoi from melancholy discourses to comment on topics as diverse as war, religion, gender inequality, and modernity. As well as essays on canonical figures including Goethe and Thomas Mann, the volume features studies of sadness in lesser-known writers such as Betty Paoli and Julia Schoch. -- From publisher's website.

Book Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church  South

Download or read book Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church South written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: