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Madame Staël é uma das figuras mais fascinantes da França dos fins do século XVIII. Nascida Annie-Luise-Germaine Necker (1766-1817), a parisiense se destacava nos salões iluministas com sua inteligê……続きを見る

While there are many books on the romantics, and many books on Heidegger, there has been no book exploring the connection between the two. Pol Vandevelde’s new study forges this important link. Vand……続きを見る

Around 1800, print culture became a particularly rich source for metaphors about thinking as well as writing, nowhere more so than in the German tradition of Dichter und Denker. Goethe, Jean Paul, a……続きを見る

Staging West German Democracy examines how political “founding discourses” of the nascent Federal Republic (FRG) were reflected, reinforced, and actively manufactured by the Federal government in co……続きを見る

Mit Romanen wie "Effi Briest" und Gedichten wie "Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck im Havelland" hat sich Teodor Fontane (1819–1898) gleichermaßen in die Weltliteratur wie in die Schulbücher eingeschrieb……続きを見る

Croce admired Goethe partly because the latter possessed a knowledge of human nature in all its aspects but nonetheless kept his mind above and beyond political sympathies and the quarrels of nation……続きを見る

The lever appears to be a very simple object, a tool used since ancient times for the most primitive of tasks: to lift and to balance. Why, then, were prominent intellectuals active around 1800 in a……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Ältere Deutsche Literatur, Mediävistik, Note: 1,0, Universität Potsdam (Institut für Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Das Nibelungenlied, 10 ……続きを見る

En effet, mes amis patients, je veux vous dire ce que je voulais faire là en bas, je veux vous le dire dans cette préface tardive qui aurait facilement pu devenir une nécrologie, une oraison funèbre……続きを見る

« Comment une chose pourrait-elle naître de son contraire ? Par exemple, la vérité de l’erreur ? Ou bien la volonté du vrai de la volonté de l’erreur ? L’acte désintéressé de l’acte égoïste ? Commen……続きを見る

Il paraît que l’opinion publique en Allemagne interdit de parler des conséquences néfastes et dangereuses d’une guerre, surtout s’il s’agit d’une guerre victorieuse. On écoute d’autant plus volontie……続きを見る

Élever et discipliner un animal qui puisse faire des promesses ー n’est-ce pas là la tâche paradoxale que la nature s’est proposée vis-à-vis de l’homme ? N’est-ce pas là le véritable problème de l’h……続きを見る

Wie in der Spitze eines Blitzableiters die Elektrizität der ganzen Atmosphäre, ist dann eine unermeßliche Fülle von Geschehnissen zusammengedrängt in die engste Spanne von Zeit. Was ansonsten gemäch……続きを見る

Faust is Goethe's magnum opus and considered by many to be one of the greatest works of German literature. The story takes place in multiple settings, the first of which is heaven. Mephistopheles ma……続きを見る

A 2020 Prose Award Finalist What do we do with pasts we inherit that carry shame? A major and original contribution to thinking about and grappling with the legacies of German and Nazi history, this……続きを見る

During his lifetime Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was among the most widely read German-language writers in the world. Always controversial, he fell into critical disfavor as writers an……続きを見る

INDICE DALLA GUERRA DEL 1870 ALLA GUERRA DEL 1914 GLI EPIGONI E I RIBELLI HAUPTMANN E GLI SBOCCHI DEL NATURALISMO. FRANK WEDEKIND, IL PRECORRITORE CREPUSCOLO LIRICO DI UN IMPERO STEFAN GEORGE E LA S……続きを見る

Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures (Awarded by the MLA) With an innovative approach that combines material media history, media theory, a……続きを見る

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Erich Fromm (1900-1980) is known to most readers as the author of the international bestseller The Art of Loving (1956). What may be less widely known……続きを見る

In Peripheral Desires, Robert Deam Tobin charts the emergence, from the 1830s through the early twentieth century, of a new vocabulary and science of human sexuality in the writings of literary auth……続きを見る

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 'Kindred by Choice' (also known as 'The Elective Affinities') is a novel that delves into the complexities of love, marriage, and human relationships. Set in early 19th ……続きを見る

Goethe is the most famous German author, and the poetic drama Faust, Part I (1808) is his best-known work, one that stands in the company of other leading canonical works of European literature such……続きを見る

Autore di capolavori come Austerlitz, Gli anelli di Saturno e Vertigini, W.G. Sebald non ha mai indietreggiato dalla responsabilità di sentirsi parte di un popolo – quello tedesco – che egli ritenev……続きを見る

Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls investigates the creation of "obscene writings and images" as a category of print in nineteenth-century Germany. Sarah L. Leonard charts the process through which ……続きを見る

Ein Streifzug durch Fontanes Spätwerk. Zum 200. Geburtstag von Theodor Fontane. Fontane war mit sechzig Jahren bereits der »alte Fontane«, als er an sein eigentliches Lebenswerk ging: den Zyklus der……続きを見る

Focusing on particular cases of Anglo-German exchange in the period known as the Sattelzeit (1750-1850), this volume of essays explores how drama and poetry played a central role in the development ……続きを見る

Between 1933 and 1945, National Socialists enacted a focused effort to propagandize children’s literature by distorting existing German values and traditions with the aim of creating a homogenous “f……続きを見る

Mit einer Einführung des Herausgebers zum Begriff und zur (-Selbst)Definition der Popliteratur, ihrer Geschichte seit den 1960er Jahren, insbesondere aber ihren Ausprägungen und Möglichkeiten sowie ……続きを見る

KLG Extrakt "Schriftstellerinnen II" setzt die Werkporträts bedeutender deutschsprachiger Autorinnen in "Schriftstellerinnen I" fort. Die versammelten Essays machen bekannt u.a. mit dem politisch en……続きを見る

Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culturechallenges a model of literary production that persists in literary studies: the so-called Geniekult or the idea of the solitary male author as……続きを見る