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Book The Lessing Legend

    Book Details:
  • Author : Franz Mehring
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1938
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book The Lessing Legend written by Franz Mehring and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lessing Legend

Download or read book The Lessing Legend written by Franz Mehring and published by New York, Critics group. This book was released on 1938 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Doris Lessing

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  • Author : Susan Watkins
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2013-07-19
  • ISBN : 1847796710
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Doris Lessing written by Susan Watkins and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and has recently published what she has announced will be her final novel. Whereas earlier assessments have focused on Lessing’s relationship with feminism and the impact of her 1962 novel, The Golden Notebook, this book argues that Lessing's writing was formed by her experiences of the colonial encounter; it makes use of postcolonial theory and criticism to examine Lessing's continued interest in ideas of nation, empire, gender and race and the connections between them. The book examines the entire range of her writing, including her most recent fiction and non-fiction, which have been comparatively neglected. The book is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students of Doris Lessing’s work as well as the general reader who enjoys her writing. This is the first significant book-length critical evaluation in ten years.

Book A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Download or read book A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing written by Barbara Fischer and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most independent thinkers in German intellectual history, the Enlightenment author Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) contributed in decisive and lasting fashion to literature, philosophy, theology, criticism, and drama theory. Lessing invented the brgerliches Trauerspiel (bourgeois tragedy) and wrote one of the first successful German tragedies as well as one of the finest German comedies. In his final dramatic masterpiece, Nathan der Weise, he writes of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, of religious tolerance and intolerance and the clash of civilizations. Lessing's dramas are the oldest German theater pieces still regularly performed (both in Germany and internationally), and both his plays and his drama theory have influenced such writers as Goethe, Schiller, Hebbel, Hauptmann, Ibsen, Strindberg, Schnitzler, and Brecht. Addressing an audience ranging from graduate students to seasoned scholars, this volume introduces Lessing's life and times and places him within the broader context of the European Enlightenment. It discusses his pathbreaking dramas, his equally revolutionary theoretical, critical, and aesthetic writings, his original fables, his innovative work in philosophy and theology, and his significant contributions to Jewish emancipation. The volume concludes by examining 20th-century reception of Lessing and his oeuvre. Contributors: Barbara Fischer, Thomas C. Fox, Steven D. Martinson, Klaus L. Berghahn, John Pizer, Beate Allert, H. B. Nisbet, Arno Schilson, Willi Goetschel, Peter Hyng, Karin A. Wurst, Ann Schmiesing, Reinhart Meyer, Hans-Joachim Kertscher, Hinrich C. Seeba, Dieter Fratzke, Helmut Berthold, Herbert Rowland. Barbara Fischer is associateprofessor of German and Thomas C. Fox is professor of German, both at the University of Alabama.

Book Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Download or read book Gotthold Ephraim Lessing written by Hugh Barr Nisbet and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sets [Lessing's] life and work in the context of the intellectual, social, and cultural background of eighteenth-century Europe."--Provided by publisher.

Book Lessing yearbook

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780814329856
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book Lessing yearbook written by and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Doris Lessing

Download or read book Doris Lessing written by Alice Ridout and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing has received relatively little critical attention. One of the reasons for this is that Lessing has spent much of her lifetime and her long published writing career crossing both national and ideological borders. This essay collection reflects and explores the incredible variety of Lessing's border crossings and positions her writing in its various social and cultural contexts. Lessing crosses literal national borders in her life and work, but more controversial have been her crossings of genre borders into sci-fi and "space fiction", and her crossing of ideological borders such as moving into and out of the Communist Party and from a colonial into a post-colonial world. This timely collection also considers a number of the most interesting recent critical and theoretical approaches to Lessing's writing, including work on maternity and abjection in relation to The Fifth Child and The Grass is Singing, eco-criticism in Lessing's 'Ifrakan' novels, and postcolonial re-writings of landscape in her African Stories.

Book Shattered Past

    Book Details:
  • Author : Konrad H. Jarausch
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2009-03-24
  • ISBN : 140082527X
  • Pages : 395 pages

Download or read book Shattered Past written by Konrad H. Jarausch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broken glass, twisted beams, piles of debris--these are the early memories of the children who grew up amidst the ruins of the Third Reich. More than five decades later, German youth inhabit manicured suburbs and stroll along prosperous pedestrian malls. Shattered Past is a bold reconsideration of the perplexing pattern of Germany's twentieth-century history. Konrad Jarausch and Michael Geyer explore the staggering gap between the country's role in the terrors of war and its subsequent success as a democracy. They argue that the collapse of Communism, national reunification, and the postmodern shift call for a new reading of the country's turbulent development, one that no longer suggests continuity but rupture and conflict. Comprising original essays, the book begins by reexamining the nationalist, socialist, and liberal master narratives that have dominated the presentation of German history but are now losing their hold. Treated next are major issues of recent debate that suggest how new kinds of German history might be written: annihilationist warfare, complicity with dictatorship, the taming of power, the impact of migration, the struggle over national identity, redefinitions of womanhood, and the development of consumption as well as popular culture. The concluding chapters reflect on the country's gradual transition from chaos to civility. This penetrating study will spark a fresh debate about the meaning of the German past during the last century. There is no single master narrative, no Weltgeist, to be discovered. But there is a fascinating story to be told in many different ways.

Book The Bureaucratization of the World

Download or read book The Bureaucratization of the World written by Henry Jacoby and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility  and Other Writings on Media

Download or read book The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility and Other Writings on Media written by Walter Benjamin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-31 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of influential essays on the visual arts that were made possible by machines, and the implications for the future of culture.

Book Literature and Mass Culture

Download or read book Literature and Mass Culture written by Leo Lowenthal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of the collected writings of sociologist Leo Lowenthal contains his classic theoretical and historical writings on the relationship of art to mass culture. This book series presents Lowenthal's contributions to a theory of the role of communication in modern society. This volume lays out the basis for a theory of mass culture. Lowenthal demonstrates that the juxtaposition of a "low"mass culture and a "high"esoteric culture did not originate in contemporary industrial, bourgeois society but can be traced back to the Middle Ages and antiquity.

Book The Life and Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Download or read book The Life and Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing written by Adolf Stahr and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopedia of Christianity

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Christianity written by Erwin Fahlbusch and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 300 articles, covering the alphabetical entries P-Sh, this book also includes articles on significant topics ranging from Paul, political theology and the Qur'an, to religious liberty, salvation history and scholasticism.

Book The Life and Works of G  E  Lessing  From the German     By E  P  Evans

Download or read book The Life and Works of G E Lessing From the German By E P Evans written by Adolf Wilhelm Theodor Stahr and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Marxism and Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maynard Solomon
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN : 9780814316214
  • Pages : 724 pages

Download or read book Marxism and Art written by Maynard Solomon and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marxism and Art is a collection of basic readings in Marxist criticism and aesthetics.

Book Class  Party  Revolution

Download or read book Class Party Revolution written by Leo Panitch and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since beginning publication in1964, The Socialist Register has been one of the most important sources of engaged, critical, and influential theoretical interventions on the socialist left. Released as an annual with a focus on publishing rigorous, sustained pieces that take up particular themes, it has always been committed to developing an independent, nonsectarian relationship with Marxism. This volume—the Register’s first-ever reader—grapples with the question of whether political organization is a necessary part of the struggle by the working-class to overthrow capitalism. In pieces published over the course of publication’s entire history contributors, from Ralph Miliband to Jean-Paul Satre, examine various aspects of this theme.

Book History and Class Consciousness

Download or read book History and Class Consciousness written by Georg Lukács and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and Class Consciousness was the most important of Georg Lukcs's early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923. The subject of high praise and passionate criticism, it had a major impact on all the Marxist debates that followed, introducing key new concepts such as 'totality', 'reification' and 'imputed class consciousness'. This centenary edition, with a new preface by Michael Lwy, comprises a series of essays exploring, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality, Rosa Luxemburg as a Marxist, the changing function of historic Marxism, and the substantiation and consciousness of the proletariat. This classic book has influenced many key philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Adorno, Debord, Heidegger, Lefebvre, Merleau-Ponty and Zizek, and it can lay claim to being one of the cornerstones of contemporary thought.