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Book Turns und Trends der Literaturwissenschaft

Download or read book Turns und Trends der Literaturwissenschaft written by Christian Meierhofer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eardrums

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  • Author : Tyler Whitney
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2019-06-15
  • ISBN : 0810140233
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Eardrums written by Tyler Whitney and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study, Tyler Whitney demonstrates how a transformation and militarization of the civilian soundscape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries left indelible traces on the literature that defined the period. Both formally and thematically, the modernist aesthetics of Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Detlev von Liliencron, and Peter Altenberg drew on this blurring of martial and civilian soundscapes in traumatic and performative repetitions of war. At the same time, Richard Huelsenbeck assaulted audiences in Zurich with his “sound poems,” which combined references to World War I, colonialism, and violent encounters in urban spaces with nonsensical utterances and linguistic detritus—all accompanied by the relentless beating of a drum on the stage of the Cabaret Voltaire. Eardrums is the first book-length study to explore the relationship between acoustical modernity and German modernism, charting a literary and cultural history written in and around the eardrum. The result is not only a new way of understanding the sonic impulses behind key literary texts from the period. It also outlines an entirely new approach to the study of literature as as the interaction of text and sonic practice, voice and noise, which will be of interest to scholars across literary studies, media theory, sound studies, and the history of science.

Book Before Photography

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  • Author : Kirsten Belgum
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2021-03-08
  • ISBN : 3110696622
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Before Photography written by Kirsten Belgum and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen a wealth of new scholarship on the history of photography, cinema, digital media, and video games, yet less attention has been devoted to earlier forms of visual culture. The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic proliferation of new technologies, devices, and print processes, which provided growing audiences with access to more visual material than ever before. This volume brings together the best aspects of interdisciplinary scholarship to enhance our understanding of the production, dissemination, and consumption of visual media prior to the predominance of photographic reproduction. By setting these examples against the backdrop of demographic, educational, political, commercial, scientific, and industrial shifts in Central Europe, these essays reveal the diverse ways that innovation in visual culture affected literature, philosophy, journalism, the history of perception, exhibition culture, and the representation of nature and human life in both print and material culture in local, national, transnational, and global contexts.

Book The Limburg Sermons  Preaching in the Medieval Low Countries at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century

Download or read book The Limburg Sermons Preaching in the Medieval Low Countries at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century written by Wybren Scheepsma and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-08-31 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the field of Dutch literature the Limburg Sermons constitute a unique collection of sermons from the thirteenth century. In addition to material translated from German it contains a unique series of vernacular sermons on the ‘Song of Songs’, which reveal unsuspected connections with the mystic authors Beatrijs van Nazareth and Hadewijch.

Book The Turn of the Century

Download or read book The Turn of the Century written by Christian Berg and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1995 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rewritten versions of contributions to an international conference held at the University of Antwerp in May 1992. Starting point for the conference was the vagueness of the very terms 'modernism' and 'modernity'. In the first section a group of comparatists address the theoretical and terminological problems of modernism. Practical readings of modernist writers; discussions of different modernist movements; and, the work of critics who have contributed to debates about modernism make up the second section. The third section looks at the problem of modernism from an interartistic and interdisciplinary perspective.

Book Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur

Download or read book Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Major Figures of Turn of the century Austrian Literature

Download or read book Major Figures of Turn of the century Austrian Literature written by Donald G. Daviau and published by Ariadne Press (CA). This book was released on 1991 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this projected seven-volume series is to help make the major figures of Austrian literature from 1800 to the present accessible to an English-speaking audience. The introductions provide an overview of the cultural and political background of the age to furnish a broader context for the individual contributions. Bibliographies of primary and secondary texts enhance the value of the volumes as reference works. This volume covers the turbulent period between the two world wars. Despite the hardships endured by a country recovering from a severe war, and despite the prominence of politics, literature flourished to a degree that, surprisingly perhaps, makes this era one of the richest periods in Austrian literary history.

Book All change please    challenges and opportunities of the energy transition

Download or read book All change please challenges and opportunities of the energy transition written by Andreas Stefansky and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual meeting of the ARLs Junges Forum forum for young professionals on 6-8 October 2016 in Leipzig addressed various aspects of the energy transition-when, where, how and why? In presentations and discussion groups, they considered not only technical, legal and planning aspects related to infrastructure expansion and the management and structuring of the energy transition, but also its significance for spatial development. The focus of the annual meeting was selected in view of the current importance of the issue. The transition is a process intended to ensure a safe, environmentally friendly and economically successful future and as such involves a broad spectrum of social, planning and scientific challenges and opportunities that require more in-depth consideration and analysis. The following questions thus provided the starting points for the presentations: What are the key action areas for the implementation of the energy transition? How will the cities and the countryside of the future look? How do the various actors behave and how do they react to different technologies? Where and why do conflicts and competition emerge and how can resistance and acceptance be dealt with? These key questions were the focus of the annual meeting and informed the following themes: How smart is the city of the future? Pole position for new form: of mobility and We say no! - public protest in the energy transition.

Book Landscape Theories

Download or read book Landscape Theories written by Olaf Kühne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decades, the discussion about theoretical approaches to the topic of 'landscape' has increased. This book presents the currently discussed theoretical approaches to landscape and shows its potentials and limits. The theoretical approaches are discussed on the basis of current questions, such as socialisation and the hybridisation of landscape, and combined with empirical results. This is followed by a discussion of the landscape policy operationalisation of theoretical considerations and empirical findings.

Book Beitr  ge zur mittelalterlichen Literatur

Download or read book Beitr ge zur mittelalterlichen Literatur written by Werner Schwarz and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1984 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monstrous Anatomies

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  • Author : Raul Calzoni
  • Publisher : V&R Unipress
  • Release : 2015-09-16
  • ISBN : 3847004697
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Monstrous Anatomies written by Raul Calzoni and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the significance and dissemination of 'monstrous anatomies' in British and German culture by investigating how and why scientific and literary representations and descriptions of abnormal bodies were proposed in the late Enlightenment, during the Romantic and the Victorian Age. Since the investigations of late 18th-Century natural sciences, the fascination with monstrous anatomies has proved crucial to the study of human physiology and pathology. Featuring essays by a number of scholars focusing on a wide range of literary texts from the long nineteenth century and foregrounding the most important monstrous anatomies of the time, this book intends to offer a significant contribution to the study of the representations of the abnormal body in modern culture.

Book Ethics in Culture

Download or read book Ethics in Culture written by Astrid Erll and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alongside the recent cultural turn in the humanities, there has been a noticeable return to ethical considerations. With regard to literature as well as other media, this has rekindled awareness of a tension, antagonism, or even disparity between ethics and aesthetics. This volume of articles takes a more systematic and cross-disciplinary approach to the widely mooted ethical turn in literature and other media than has been pursued so far. It brings together a wide range of critical perspectives from literary studies, media and cultural memory studies, and philosophy, tracing the complex and sometimes conflicting relationship between ethics and aesthetics in theoretical contexts and individual case studies as diverse as colonial architecture, nineteenth-century literary histories, and postmodern writing and art.

Book Sprache  Literatur  Kultur  Translatio delectat

Download or read book Sprache Literatur Kultur Translatio delectat written by Matthias Bauer and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Turns of Translation Studies

Download or read book The Turns of Translation Studies written by Mary Snell-Hornby and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What’s new in Translation Studies? In offering a critical assessment of recent developments in the young discipline, this book sets out to provide an answer, as seen from a European perspective today. Many “new” ideas actually go back well into the past, and the German Romantic Age proves to be the starting-point. The main focus lies however on the last 20 years, and, beginning with the cultural turn of the 1980s, the study traces what have turned out since then to be ground-breaking contributions (new paradigms) as against what was only a change in position on already established territory (shifting viewpoints). Topics of the 1990s include nonverbal communication, gender-based Translation Studies, stage translation, new fields of interpreting studies and the effects of new technologies and globalization (including the increasingly dominant role of English). The author’s aim is to stimulate discussion and provoke further debate on the current profile and future perspectives of Translation Studies.

Book Swedish Novelist Selma Lagerl  f  1858 1940  and Germany at the Turn of the Century

Download or read book Swedish Novelist Selma Lagerl f 1858 1940 and Germany at the Turn of the Century written by Jennifer Watson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This quote from the Novel Prize winner, Nelly Sachs, about Selma Lagerlof (1848-1940) is one that rings ture not only for Germany but for all of Europe at the turn of the century (19th-20th). Lagerlof was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909), and at the height of her literary career, was an internationally acclaimed author, praised by the public and critics alike. She was particularly heralded in Germany where Scandinavian authors have a strong impact on German literature during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book examines the literary impact Selma Lagerlof had on German authors of the time. It also clearly sheds new light on Selma Lagerlof, as well as other notable German authors such as Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Gerhardt Hauptmann, Nelly Sachs, Ina Seidel and Gustav Frenssen. This book will be of great value to those in the fields of Scandinavian, German and Comparative literature.

Book The Smell of Books

Download or read book The Smell of Books written by Hans J. Rindisbacher and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates that sense of smell plays a significant role in the history of European literature