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Book The Broch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Graham Bullen
  • Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2021-06-16
  • ISBN : 1800465858
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book The Broch written by Graham Bullen and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when the bottom falls out of your world, but dammit, no one’s gonna get to know? In THE BROCH, a wry, touching week-long odyssey into the wilds of the Scottish Outer Hebrides, we follow one man running away from answers, and towards the realities of his own mortality.

Book The Guiltless

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  • Author : Hermann Broch
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780810160781
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book The Guiltless written by Hermann Broch and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Murder, lust, shame, hypocrisy, and suicide are at the center of The Guiltless, Hermann Broch's postwar novel about the disintegration of European society in the three decades preceding the Second World War. Broch's characters - an apathetic man who can barely remember his own name; a high-school teacher and his lover who return from the brink of a suicide pact to carry on a dishonest relationship; Zerline, a lady's maid who enslaves her mistresses, prostitutes the young country girl Melitta, and metes out her own justice against the "empty wickedness" of her betters - are trapped in their indifference, prisoners of a sort of "wakeful somnolence." These men and women may mention the "imbecile Hitler," yet they prefer a nap or sexual encounter to any social action. Broch thought the kind of ethical perversity and political apathy exhibited by his characters paved the way for Nazism. He believed in the purifying power of writing and hoped that by revealing Germany's underlying guilt he could purge indifference from his own and future generations. In The Guiltless, Broch captures how apathy and ennui - very human failings - evolve into something dehumanizing and dangerous." --Book Jacket.

Book Hermann Broch  Visionary in Exile

Download or read book Hermann Broch Visionary in Exile written by Paul Michael Lützeler and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of one of the foremost 20c Austrian writers, as a critic and as a novelist and dramatist. The Austrian novelist Hermann Broch ranks with Kafka and Musil among the three greatest 20th-century Austrian novelists and belongs to the century's most gifted novelists in German from whatever country. He established his reputation with The Sleepwalkers, a trilogy of political and philosophical novels. His best-known work is The Death of Virgil, a long, challenging work in a lyrical, exuberant, and sometimes nearly incomprehensible style, akind of cerebral stream-of-consciousness of the dying Virgil. Broch also wrote extensively about modern art and architecture, Hofmannsthal, and mass psychology. He has a special connection to Yale, as he lived the last years of his life there after having escaped Austria in 1938. The participants in the Yale Symposium of April 2001 are among the world's most prominent Broch scholars. Fourteen of their presentations have been extensively revised for this volume, which focuses on Broch as critic and as novelist and dramatist. Topics include Broch's views on kitsch and art, and on drama; his cultural criticism; his cooperation with Borgese and Arendt; his theory of mass psychology; history in his works, Ernst Kretschmer's influence on him; Virgil and Celan's Atemwende; Jean Starr Untermeyer's translation of Virgil; guilt and the fall in Those without Gui Paul Michael Lützeler is Distinguished University Professor of German at Washington University St. Louis and editor of Broch's collected works. MATTHIAS KONZETT is associate professor of German at Yale; WILLY RIEMER is associate professor of German at the University of Delaware, and CHRISTA SAMMONS is curator of the German collections of the Beinecke Library at Yale.

Book A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch

Download or read book A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch written by Graham Bartram and published by Studies in German Literature L. This book was released on 2019 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is best known for his two major modernist works, The Sleepwalkers (3 vols., 1930-1932) and The Death of Virgil (1945), which frame a lifetime of ethical, cultural, political, and social thought. A textile manufacturer by trade, Broch entered the literary scene late in life with an experimental view of the novel that strove towards totality and vividly depicted Europe's cultural disintegration. As fascism took over and Broch, a Viennese Jew, was forced into exile, his view of literature as transformative was challenged, but his commitment to presenting an ethical view of the crises of his time was unwavering. An important mentor and interlocutor for contemporaries such as Arendt and Canetti as well as a continued inspiration for contemporary authors, Broch wrote to better understand and shape the political and cultural conditions for a postfascist world. This volume covers the major literary works and constitutes the first comprehensive introduction in English to Broch's political, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical writings. Contributors: Graham Bartram, Brechtje Beuker, Gisela Brude-Firnau, Gwyneth Cliver, Jennifer Jenkins, Kathleen L. Komar, Paul Michael Lützeler, Gunther Martens, Sarah McGaughey, Judith Ryan, Judith Sidler, Galin Tihanov, Sebastian Wogenstein. Graham Bartram retired as Senior Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Lancaster, UK. Sarah McGaughey is Associate Professor of German at Dickinson College, USA. Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

Book Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and His Time

Download or read book Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and His Time written by Hermann Broch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1984-08-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is remembered among English-speaking readers for his novels The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil, and among German-speaking readers for his novels as well as his works on moral and political philosophy, his aesthetic theory, and his varied criticism. This study reveals Broch as a major historian as well, one who believes that true historical understanding requires the faculties of both poet and philosopher. Through an analysis of the changing thought and career of the Austrian poet, librettist, and essaist Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), Broch attempts to define and analyze the major intellectual issues of the European fin de siècle, a period that he characterizes according to the Nietzschean concepts of the breakdown of rationality and the loss of a central value system. The result is a major examination of European thought as well as a comparative study of political systems and artistic styles.

Book Broch Island

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  • Author : J M Struthers
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1291291016
  • Pages : 179 pages

Download or read book Broch Island written by J M Struthers and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burray is one of the southern islands of Orkney, situated in the natural harbour of Scapa Flow. On a world scale it is literally a dot in the ocean, but even such a small place has a story to tell. From the early brochs which gave the island its name through the kelp and herring industries to its strategic importance in two world wars, this is the history of Burray through the ages.

Book The Beast on the Broch

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  • Author : John K. Fulton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9781911279037
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book The Beast on the Broch written by John K. Fulton and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lonely girl. A wild beast. An unforgettable friendship. Scotland, 799 AD. Talorca befriends a strange Pictish beast; together, they fight off Viking raiders.

Book The Sleepwalkers

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  • Author : Hermann Broch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 648 pages

Download or read book The Sleepwalkers written by Hermann Broch and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Excavations at Crosskirk Broch  Caithness

Download or read book Excavations at Crosskirk Broch Caithness written by Horace Fairhurst and published by Society Antiquaries Scotland. This book was released on 1984 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Download or read book Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland written by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes List of members.

Book Hermann Broch and Mass Hysteria

Download or read book Hermann Broch and Mass Hysteria written by Brett E. Sterling and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language monograph on Hermann Broch's literary and theoretical work on mass hysteria.

Book Scotland in Pagan Times

Download or read book Scotland in Pagan Times written by Joseph Anderson and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 1883 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Scotland In Pagan Times: The Iron Age"" is a historical book written by Joseph Anderson and published in 1883. The book provides a detailed account of the Iron Age in Scotland, a period that spanned from around 800 BC to the arrival of the Romans in AD 43. Anderson draws on archaeological evidence, including artifacts and structures, to paint a picture of what life was like for the people of Scotland during this time. He describes the various tribes that inhabited the region, their social structures, and their religious beliefs and practices. The book also delves into the economy and technology of the Iron Age, including agriculture, metalworking, and trade. Anderson discusses the impact of the Roman invasion on the region and how it changed the course of Scottish history. Overall, ""Scotland In Pagan Times: The Iron Age"" is a comprehensive and informative resource for anyone interested in the history of Scotland or the Iron Age in general.The Rhind Lectures In Archaeology For 1881.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Book Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Download or read book Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1 includes history, by-laws and membership of the society.

Book Archaeologia Scotica

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  • Author : Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1890
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 704 pages

Download or read book Archaeologia Scotica written by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Archaeologia Scotica

Download or read book Archaeologia Scotica written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geist and Zeitgeist

Download or read book Geist and Zeitgeist written by Hermann Broch and published by Counterpoint. This book was released on 2002-12-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermann Broch achieved international recognition for his brilliant use of innovative literary techniques to present the entire range of human experience, from the biological to the metaphysical. Concerned with the problem of ethical responsibility in a world with no unified system of values, he turned to literature as the appropriate form for considering those human problems not subject to rational treatment. Late in life, Broch began questioning his artistic pursuits and turned from literature to devote himself to political theory. While he is well known and highly regarded throughout the world as a novelist, he was equally accomplished as an essayist. These six essays give us a fascinating glimpse into the mind of one of the twentieth century's most original thinkers.

Book Music in the Works of Broch  Mann  and Kafka

Download or read book Music in the Works of Broch Mann and Kafka written by John Hargraves and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the ironic influence of Friedrich Schlegel and Arthur Schopenhauer's ideas of music's primacy among the arts on three of the most important modern writers of German: Hermann Broch, Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka.