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Book Spirit of Resistance

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  • Author : Jeroen Dewulf
  • Publisher : Camden House
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 157113493X
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Spirit of Resistance written by Jeroen Dewulf and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to offer a complete story of the extraordinary proliferation of Dutch clandestine literature under the Nazi occupation. Clandestine literature was published in all countries under Nazi occupation, but nowhere else did it flourish as it did in the Netherlands. This raises important questions: What was the content of this literature? What were the risks of writing, printing, selling, and buying it? And why the Netherlands? Traditionally, the combative Dutch "spirit of resistance" has been cited, a reaction not only to German oppression but to German propaganda: while the Germans hoped to build bonds with their "Germanic" Dutch "brothers," clandestine literature insisted on their incompatibility. However, when reading clandestine literature, one should not forget that this "spirit of resistance" came rather late and did not prevent the transportation of seventy-three percent of the Netherlands' Jewish population to Nazi death camps -- the largest percentage in Western Europe. The Dutch case is complex: while the country proved to be remarkably resistant to Nazi propaganda, little was done to prevent the actual execution of Nazi policies. The complete story of Dutch clandestine literature therefore combines resistance and complicity, victory and defeat, pride and shame. Jeroen Dewulf is Queen Beatrix Professor of Dutch Studies in the Department of German at the University of California, Berkeley.

Book Albert Verwey s Translations from Shelley s Poetical Works

Download or read book Albert Verwey s Translations from Shelley s Poetical Works written by Baxter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1963-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Poetry of the Netherlands in Its European Context  1170 1930

Download or read book Poetry of the Netherlands in Its European Context 1170 1930 written by Theodoor Weevers and published by London, Athlone P. This book was released on 1960 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Existential Philosophy of Etty Hillesum

Download or read book The Existential Philosophy of Etty Hillesum written by Meins G. S. Coetsier and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Existential Philosophy of Etty Hillesum Meins G.S. Coetsier breaks new ground by demonstrating the Jewish existential nature of Etty Hillesum’s spiritual and cultural life in light of the writings of Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Hillesum’s diaries and letters, written between 1941 and 1943, illustrate her struggle to come to terms with her personal life in the context of the Second World War and the Shoah. By finding God under the rubble of the horrors, she rediscovers the divine presence between humankind, while taking up responsibility for the Other as a way to embrace justice and compassion. In a fascinating, accessible and thorough study, Coetsier dispels much of the confusion that assails readers when they are exposed to the bewildering range of Christian and Jewish influences and other cultural interpretations of her writings. The result is a convincing and profound picture of Etty Hillesum's path to spiritual freedom.

Book Etty

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  • Author : Etty Hillesum
  • Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780802839596
  • Pages : 862 pages

Download or read book Etty written by Etty Hillesum and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust, Etty's writings reveal a young Jewish woman who celebrated life and remained an undaunted example of courage, sympathy, and compassion. Through this splendid translation by Arnold J. Pomerans, commissioned by the Etty Hillesum Foundation, readers everywhere will resonate with the spirit of this amazing young woman.

Book Modern Dutch Studies

Download or read book Modern Dutch Studies written by M. J. Wintle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays by leading scholars explore the integration of language and literature study in the fields of art history and social sciences, exploring as a result the scope and nature of the discipline of Dutch Studies today.

Book Poets on Paintings

Download or read book Poets on Paintings written by Robert D. Denham and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ekphrasis, the description of pictorial art in words, is the subject of this bibliography. More specifically, some 2500 poems on paintings are catalogued, by type of publication in which they appear and by poet. Also included are 2000 entries on the secondary literature of ekphrasis, including works on sculpture, music, photography, film, and mixed media.

Book Visualizing Utopia

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  • Author : M. G. Kemperink
  • Publisher : Peeters Publishers
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9789042918771
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Visualizing Utopia written by M. G. Kemperink and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the essays presented at the workshop 'Visualizing Utopia' held in May 2005, organized by Mary Kemperink and Willemien Roenhorst. The essays presented here discuss utopian thinking from 1890 until 1930. From the end of the eighteenth century, this utopian thinking developed from what can be called 'classic' utopianism into 'modern' utopianism. Utopianism unmarked by temporality made way for a tale situated in time - future time. Thus what was first regarded as merely a thought experiment gradually assumed the character of a real political programme. In their view of the new world and new people, writers, artists, architects, social reformers, cultural critics, politicians, etc., would often draw on representations already present in the culture. These could be biblical representations, such as those of the Apocalypse, Christ the Saviour and earthly paradise, or ancient myths, such as those of the Age of Gold, Arcadia, the sun-drenched world of Gnosticism and the Wagnerian mythological universe. The workshop concentrated on the following two aspects: the way in which the future Utopia and the path that would lead to its realization was given shape in the artistic field as well as in the non-artistic field, and the question to which culturally rooted concepts these representations were related. This double line of approach created the opportunity for specialized researchers from different disciplines - history, cultural history, art history, history of architecture, literary history - to discuss utopianism as it manifested itself in Europe and the United States at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century.

Book Minos and the Moderns

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  • Author : Theodore Ziolkowski
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2008-07-17
  • ISBN : 0195336917
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Minos and the Moderns written by Theodore Ziolkowski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minos and the Moderns considers three mythological complexes that enjoyed a unique surge of interest in early twentieth-century European art and literature: Europa and the bull, the minotaur and the labyrinth, and Daedalus and Icarus. All three are situated on the island of Crete and are linked by the figure of King Minos. Drawing examples from fiction, poetry, drama, painting, sculpture, opera, and ballet, Minos and the Moderns is the first book of its kind to treat the role of the Cretan myths in the modern imagination.Beginning with the resurgence of Crete in the modern consciousness in 1900 following the excavations of Sir Arthur Evans, Theodore Ziolkowski shows how the tale of Europa-in poetry, drama, and art, but also in cartoons, advertising, and currency-was initially seized upon as a story of sexual awakening, then as a vehicle for social and political satire, and finally as a symbol of European unity. In contast, the minotaur provided artists ranging from Picasso to Durrenmatt with an image of the artist's sense of alienation, while the labyrinth suggested to many writers the threatening sociopolitical world of the twentieth century. Ziolkowski also considers the roles of such modern figures as Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud; of travelers to Greece and Crete from Isadora Duncan to Henry Miller; and of the theorists and writers, including T. S. Eliot and Thomas Mann, who hailed the use of myth in modern literature.Minos and the Moderns concludes with a summary of the manners in which the economic, aesthetic, psychological, and anthropological revisions enabled precisely these myths to be taken up as a mirror of modern consciousness. The book will appeal to all readers interested in the classical tradition and its continuing relevance and especially to scholars of Classics and modern literatures.

Book Leidse Germanistische en Anglistische Reeks

Download or read book Leidse Germanistische en Anglistische Reeks written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Albert Verwey s Translations from Shelley s Poetical Works

Download or read book Albert Verwey s Translations from Shelley s Poetical Works written by B. M. Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book European context

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  • Author : Theodoor Weevers
  • Publisher : MHRA
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN : 9780900547195
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book European context written by Theodoor Weevers and published by MHRA. This book was released on 1971 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Turning Tides

Download or read book Turning Tides written by Peter Van de Kamp and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... This odd but compelling collection transforms Dutch poems into English written with a heavy brogue ... The book offers much work that is startling, though readers may find themselves partial to the marvelous touch of Michael O'Loughlin and Eamon Grennan.--Publishers Weekly.

Book Nieuwsblad Voor Den Boekhandel

Download or read book Nieuwsblad Voor Den Boekhandel written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 1855-1927 are issued and bound: Handelingen van de algemeene vergadering.

Book Bibliographia Neerlandica

Download or read book Bibliographia Neerlandica written by A. M. P. Mollema and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book H  P  Berlage

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  • Author : Pieter Singelenberg
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book H P Berlage written by Pieter Singelenberg and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Da Costa s Kompleete Dichtwerken

Download or read book Da Costa s Kompleete Dichtwerken written by Isaäc da Costa and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: