Jesuit School Drama
Author: Nigel Griffin
Publisher: DS Brewer
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780729302456
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Teaching German in Twentieth-century America
Author: David P. Benseler
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780299168308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTeaching a foreign language and culture is always a challenge, but it has been especially problematic to teach the German language and culture in the United States in the twentieth century. The tradition of Germany's great poets and thinkers of the past has been joined by a starker legacy. Through explorations of such topics as the world wars, the Holocaust, women in the language-teaching profession, Jewish contributions, and technology's impact on scholarship, this volume inspects the fascination and frustrating relationships of the two cultures as they interact through the teaching of German in American educational systems--from small liberal arts colleges to large and famous universities. This volume resulted from a conference, "Shaping Forces in American Germanics," held in Madison, Wisconsin in September 1996.
The End of Modernism
Author: William Collins Donahue
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003-01-14
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0807875228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNobel laureate Elias Canetti wrote his novel Auto-da-Fe (Die Blendung) when he and the twentieth century were still quite young. Rooted in the cultural crises of the Weimar period, Auto-da-Fe first received critical acclaim abroad--in England, France, and the United States--where it continues to fascinate readers of subsequent generations. The End of Modernism places this work in its cultural and philosophical contexts, situating the novel not only in relation to Canetti's considerable body of social thought, but also within larger debates on Freud and Freudianism, misogyny and modernism's "fragmented subject," anti-Semitism and the failure of humanism, contemporary philosophy and philosophical fads, and traditionalist notions of literature and escapist conceptions of history. The End of Modernism portrays Auto-da-Fe as an exemplum of "analytic modernism," and in this sense a crucial endpoint in the progression of postwar conceptions of literary modernism.
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
Author: Phyllis Rugg Brown
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780802089625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHrotsvit's keen awareness of contemporary issues and her determination to provide her readers with a rich variety of exemplary female heroes and acts of personal courage, offer twenty-first-century readers a powerful model of responsibility and agency.
Women in German Yearbook
Author: Jeanette Clausen
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780803297463
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Text & Presentation, 2004
Author: Stratos E. Constantinidis
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009-12-21
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 078645539X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKText & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference. This anthology includes papers from the 28th annual conference held in Columbus, Ohio. Topics covered include Euripides, German and Russian theatre, dramatic antecedents of the striptease, surrogate love in The Glass Menagerie, surrealist drama, Greek comedy and the American concept musical, and theatre and politics.
Directory of German Studies
Author: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 602
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (fl. 960)
Author: Phyllis R. Brown
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9004229620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHrotsvit wrote stories, plays, and histories during the reign of Emperor Otto the Great (962-973). 12 original essays survey her work, showing historical roots and contexts, Christian values, and a surprisingly modern grappling with questions of identity and female self-realization.
Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters
Author: K. Attar
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-12-17
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1137465727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching medieval and early modern texts in the 21st-century university. Topics range from the intersections of race, religion, gender, and nation in cross-cultural encounters to the use of popular culture as pedagogical tools.
The Look of Things
Author: Carsten Strathausen
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003-12-04
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0807863238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the relationship between German poetry, philosophy, and visual media around 1900, Carsten Strathausen argues that the poetic works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Stefan George focused on the visible gestalt of language as a means of competing aesthetically with the increasing popularity and "reality effect" of photography and film. Poetry around 1900 self-reflectively celebrated its own words as both transparent signs and material objects, Strathausen says. In Aestheticism, this means that language harbors the potential to literally present the things it signifies. Rather than simply describing or picturing the physical experience of looking, as critics have commonly maintained, modernist poetry claims to enable a more profound kind of perception that grants intuitive insights into the very texture of the natural world.
