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Book Sketches from My Boyhood by Justinus Kerner

Download or read book Sketches from My Boyhood by Justinus Kerner written by Harold B. Segel and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Swabian German Romantic poet, medical doctor, scientist, and investigator of parapsychological phenomena Justinus Kerner (1786–1862) has long been celebrated as one of the leading intellectuals of his time. His renowned study of a local clairvoyant, Die Seherin von Prevorst [The Seeress of Prevorst] (1829), was translated into English as early as 1845 by the English writer, Catherine Crowe. Encouraged by the Romantic interest in childhood, Kerner in later life wrote a book of youthful reminiscences under the title Bilderbuch aus meiner Knabenzeit [Sketches from My Boyhood] (1849). Inspired by such well-known memoirs of youth as Goethe’s Dichtung und Wahrheit [Poetry and Truth] and Jung-Stilling’s Heinrich Stillings Leben [The Life of Heinrich Stilling], Kerner’s Sketches is a much shorter, more modest account of his boyhood years in the Duchy (then Kingdom) of Württemberg. Consisting of eighty-six loosely related sketches, or vignettes, Sketches from My Boyhood is a vivid, charming, often entertaining, sometimes serious, narrative of growing up in, above all, Ludwigsburg, the site of the magnificent Ludwigsburg Palace. Although emphasizing primarily the personal facets of his early life, Kerner does not ignore the ever-present reality of the French Revolution and its impact on such German states as Württemberg. Sketches from My Boyhood merits its recognition as a gem of nineteenth-century German autobiographical writing.

Book Sketches from My Boyhood by Justinus Kerner

Download or read book Sketches from My Boyhood by Justinus Kerner written by Harold B. Segel and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sketches from My Boyhood

Download or read book Sketches from My Boyhood written by Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Swabian German Romantic poet, medical doctor, scientist, and investigator of parapsychological phenomena Justinus Kerner (1786â "1862) has long been celebrated as one of the leading intellectuals of his time. His renowned study of a local clairvoyant, Die Seherin von Prevorst [The Seeress of Prevorst] (1829), was translated into English as early as 1845 by the English writer, Catherine Crowe. Encouraged by the Romantic interest in childhood, Kerner in later life wrote a book of youthful reminiscences under the title Bilderbuch aus meiner Knabenzeit [Sketches from My Boyhood] (1849). Inspired by such well-known memoirs of youth as Goetheâ (TM)s Dichtung und Wahrheit [Poetry and Truth] and Jung-Stillingâ (TM)s Heinrich Stillings Leben [The Life of Heinrich Stilling], Kernerâ (TM)s Sketches is a much shorter, more modest account of his boyhood years in the Duchy (then Kingdom) of WÃ1/4rttemberg. Consisting of eighty-six loosely related sketches, or vignettes, Sketches from My Boyhood is a vivid, charming, often entertaining, sometimes serious, narrative of growing up in, above all, Ludwigsburg, the site of the magnificent Ludwigsburg Palace. Although emphasizing primarily the personal facets of his early life, Kerner does not ignore the ever-present reality of the French Revolution and its impact on such German states as WÃ1/4rttemberg. Sketches from My Boyhood merits its recognition as a gem of nineteenth-century German autobiographical writing.

Book Travel Shadows by Justinus Kerner

Download or read book Travel Shadows by Justinus Kerner written by Harold B. Segel and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justinus Kerner (1786–1862) was one of the most celebrated figures in nineteenth-century German culture. A physician by training, he was also a leading member of the Swabian Romantic circle of poets which included, among others, Ludwig Uhland and Gustav Schwab. Kerner’s international fame rests primarily on his contributions to the investigation of paranormal phenomena. The most important of these was his exhaustive case study, Die Seherin von Prevorst (The Seeress of Prevorst, 1829). The book was translated into English in 1849 by the English writer, Catherine Crowe (1803–76). Until the present, this has been the only work of Kerner available in English. Apart from his many scientific publications and his poetry, Kerner was also the author of one of the more intriguing literary works of German Romanticism, Die Reiseschatten (Travel Shadows, 1811). Ostensibly an account of his travels through Germany and Austria following his graduation from the University of Tübingen, the book is a highly imaginative, almost surreal concoction of Romantic, sentimental, grotesque, satirical, and Old German folkloric elements. Attributed by Kerner to an itinerant “shadow performer” named Lux, Travel Shadows was inspired by the tradition of “Chinese Shadows” (ombres chinoises) and represents Kerner’s attempt to create a travel narrative in the form of a grandiose shadow show. In the introduction to his translation of Travel Shadows – the first in English – Harold B. Segel situates Kerner’s work in the context of the emergence of a German shadow show tradition in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Book Light

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Book The pioneers of the spiritual reformation  Life and works of dr  Justinus Kerner  adapted from the Germ   of A  Reinhard   William Howitt and his work for spiritualism  Biographical sketches

Download or read book The pioneers of the spiritual reformation Life and works of dr Justinus Kerner adapted from the Germ of A Reinhard William Howitt and his work for spiritualism Biographical sketches written by Anna Mary Watts and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era  1760   1850

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era 1760 1850 written by Christopher John Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 1303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate reference source on the literature, thought, music, and art of the period, demonstrating the rich interplay of international influences and cross-currents at work; and to explore the many issues raised by the very concepts of Romantic and Romanticism.

Book The Bibliophile Library of Literature  Art and Rare Manuscripts

Download or read book The Bibliophile Library of Literature Art and Rare Manuscripts written by Forrest Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spirit drawings  a personal narrative

Download or read book Spirit drawings a personal narrative written by W. M. Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Warner s Dictionary of Authors Ancient and Modern

Download or read book Warner s Dictionary of Authors Ancient and Modern written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biographical Dictionary and Synopsis of Books

Download or read book Biographical Dictionary and Synopsis of Books written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of the World s Best Literature

Download or read book Library of the World s Best Literature written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of the World s Best Literature  Dictionary of authors

Download or read book Library of the World s Best Literature Dictionary of authors written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of the World s Best Literature  Biographical dictionary

Download or read book Library of the World s Best Literature Biographical dictionary written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Library of the World s Best Literature   Ancient and Modern   Vol XLIII  Forty Five Volumes   Dictionary of Authors  K Z

Download or read book A Library of the World s Best Literature Ancient and Modern Vol XLIII Forty Five Volumes Dictionary of Authors K Z written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warner's quip about how "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it"-had assembled this set, it would still be hailed today as one of the great achievements of the book world. Volume 43 is Part Two of a dictionary of authors-from Hans Vilhelm Kaalund to Ulrich Zwingli-that serves as a handy, condensed reference to the authors quoted in the first 40 volumes, as well as a guide to thousands more authors whose works are notable but not featured in this set.

Book The Ohio Farmer

Download or read book The Ohio Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: