Great German Short Stories of the Twentieth Century
Great German Short Stories of the Twentieth Century

Author: M. Charlotte Wolf

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0486476324

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"Ideal for students, this affordable anthology features expert new translations of a dozen works previously unavailable in English. The translations appear alongside the original German text of such stories as "Beauty and the Beast" by Irmtraud Morgner, Gabriele Wohmann's "Good Luck and Bad Luck," and tales by other modern authors, including Grunert, Inneberger, and Klockmann"--

A German Generation
A German Generation

Author: Thomas A. Kohut

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 0300178042

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Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so doing, offers a new history of twentieth-century Germany, as experienced and made by ordinary human beings.On the basis of sixty-two oral-history interviews, this book shows how this generation was shaped psychologically by a series of historically engendered losses over the course of the century. In response, this generation turned to the collective to repair the losses it had suffered, most fatefully to the community of the "Volk" during the Third Reich, a racial collective to which this generation was passionately committed and which was at the heart of National Socialism and its popular appeal.

Berlin Alexanderplatz
Berlin Alexanderplatz

Author: Alfred Döblin

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9780826477897

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Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) studied medicine in Berlin and specialized in the treatment of nervous diseases. Along with his experiences as a psychiatrist in the workers' quarter of Berlin, his writing was inspired by the work of Holderlin, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and was first published in the literary magazine, Der Sturm. Associated with the Expressionist literary movement in Germany, he is now recognized as on of the most important modern European novelists. Berlin Alexanderplatz is one of the masterpieces of modern European literature and the first German novel to adopt the technique of James Joyce. It tells the story of Franz Biberkopf, who, on being released from prison, is confronted with the poverty, unemployment, crime and burgeoning Nazism of 1920s Germany. As Franz struggles to survive in this world, fate teases him with a little pleasure before cruelly turning on him. Foreword by Alexander Stephan Translated by Eugene Jolas>

Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature
Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature

Author: A. Goodbody

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-10-24

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0230589626

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This book traces shifting attitudes towards science and technology, nature and the environment in Twentieth-century Germany. It approaches them through discussion of a range of literary texts and explores the philosophical influences on them and their political contexts, and asks what part novels and plays have played in environmental debate.

A New History of German Literature
A New History of German Literature

Author: David E. Wellbery

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 1038

ISBN-13: 9780674015036

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'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.

Twentieth Century German Philosophy
Twentieth Century German Philosophy

Author: Paul Gorner

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0192893092

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This book offers an historical and critical account of some of the main philosophical movements and of the major German philosophers of the twentieth century. In an accessible way, Gorner takes the reader through the principal representatives: Husserl's phenomenology; Gadamer's hermeneutics; Habermas's critical theory; and Apel's pragmatics, and gives extensive treatment of Heidegger's fundamental ontology and history of being. Twentieth Century German Philosophy provides both the undergraduate and general reader with a discussion of these philosophers and philosophies against the background of what is most distinctive in the German philosophical tradition.

Twentieth-century German Political Thought
Twentieth-century German Political Thought

Author: Peter M. R. Stirk

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0748622918

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Offers an account of German political thought emphasising its diversity and contested nature. This book gives an overview of the subject that allows access to unknown figures as well as the 'names' of the tradition, and a demonstration of the political significance of figures better known in other disciplines including law and sociology.

Modern Hungers
Modern Hungers

Author: Alice Autumn Weinreb

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 019060509X

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This text explores Germany's role in the two world wars and the Cold War to analyze the food economy of the twentieth century. It argues that controlling food supply and determining how and what people ate shaped the course of these three wars

Objects as History in Twentieth-century German Art
Objects as History in Twentieth-century German Art

Author: Peter Chametzky

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 0520260422

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This book provides an overview of twentieth-century German art, focusing on some of the period's key works. In Peter Chametzky's innovative approach, these works become representatives rather than representations of twentieth-century history. Chametzky draws on both scholarly and popular sources to demonstrate how the works (and in some cases, the artists themselves) interacted with, and even enacted, historical events, processes, and ideas.--[book jacket].

Voyage Through the Twentieth Century
Voyage Through the Twentieth Century

Author: Klemens von Klemperer

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2009-08-01

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 184545944X

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The account of the author’s life, spent between Europe and America, is at the same time an account of his generation, one that came of age between the two World Wars. Recalling not only circumstances of his own situation but that of his friends, the author shows how this generation faced a reality that seemed fragmented, and in their shared thirst for knowledge and commitment to ideas they searched for cohesiveness among the glittering, holistic ideologies and movements of the twenties and thirties. The author’s scholarly work on the German Resistance to Hitler revealed to him those who maintained dignity and courage in times of peril and despair, which became for him a life’s pursuit. This work is unique in its thorough inclusion of the postwar decades and its perspective from a historian eager to rescue the “other” Germany—the Germany of the righteous rather than the Holocaust murderers.