Sinti and Roma
Sinti and Roma

Author: Susan Tebbutt

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781571819222

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This collection of essays explores, in depth, the life of the Sinti and Roma in Germany, their representation in German literature, and the relationships between the German and Romani languages. It gives background to their maltreatment and underlines the fact that the persecution of Gypsies during the Nazi period, which until the 1980s had been totally marginalised by historians, did not cease in 1945. The continuity of this anti-Gypsyism is traced to the present day, and the efforts, achievements and aspirations of the Sinti and Roma civil rights movement are highlighted.

Popular Revenants
Popular Revenants

Author: Andrew Cusack

Publisher: Camden House

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1571135197

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There is growing interest in the internationality of the literary Gothic, which is well established in English Studies. Gothic fiction is seen as transgressive, especially in the way it crosses borders, often illicitly. In the 1790s, when the English Gothic novel was emerging, the real or ostensible source of many of these uncanny texts was Germany. This first book in English dedicated to the German Gothic in over thirty years redresses deficiencies in existing English-language sources, which are outdated, piecemeal, or not sufficiently grounded in German Studies.

Bulletin
Bulletin

Author: Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City

Publisher:

Published: 1905

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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Theodor Storm
Theodor Storm

Author: David Artiss

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9027209650

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How characteristic were the elements used in Theodor Storm's (1817 – 1888) fiction? What were the rich fund of symbols and myths that he used? Few Storm interpreters have addressed themselves seriously to these questions. This study tries to fill this gap.

The Doppelgänger
The Doppelgänger

Author: Andrew J. Webber

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1996-06-27

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0191583936

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Ever since its literary coinage in Jean Paul's novel, Siebenkäs (1796), the concept of Doppelgänger has had significant influence upon representations of the self in German literature. This study charts the development of the double from its origins in the Romantic period, through its more marginal - but nonetheless significant - manifestations in the post-Romantic culture, to its revival at the fin-de-siècle and transfer to the silent screen. The book features an introduction to the practice and theory underlying the use of the Doppelgänger, with particular reference to psychoanalysis, followed by chapters on Jean Paul, Hoffmann, Kleist, poetic realism (Droste-Hülshoff, Keller, Storm) and modernism (Kafka, Rilke, Hoffmannsthal, Schnitzler, Meyrink, Werfal). This study shows that the often underestimated figure of the double may provide a key to the epistomological, aesthetic and psychosexual structures of the texts it visits and revisits, with a particular focus on its effects in the fields of vision and language.

Literature, the Volk and the Revolution in Mid-nineteenth Century Germany
Literature, the Volk and the Revolution in Mid-nineteenth Century Germany

Author: Michael Perraudin

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9781571819895

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Between the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, poverty reached new extremes in Germany, as in other European countries, and gave rise to a class of disaffected poor, leading to the widespread expectation of a social revolution. Whether welcomed or feared, it dominated private and public debate to a larger extent than is generally assumed as is shown in this study on the reflections in literature of what was called the "Social Question." Examining works by Heine, Eichendorff, Nestroy, Büchner, Grillparzer, and Theodor Storm, the author reveals an acute awareness of political issues in an era in literature which is often seen as tending to quiescence and withdrawal from public preoccupations.