Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : German literature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A Chronology and Practical Bibliography of Modern German Literature
Author: MLN.
Author: Selections from Early German Literature
Author: Klara Hechtenberg CollitzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German literature
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Self-Portrait in Words
Author: Max BeckmannPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226041360
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
One of the most important German artists of the twentieth century, Max Beckmann was labeled a "degenerate artist" by the Nazis and chose exile. His artistic production encompassed the realism and figural themes of his early works to the provocatively blunt portraiture, critical urban views, and richly layered symbolic works for which he is now universally recognized. Although he was a prolific writer, his written work has never before been collected and translated into English. Beckmann is known for the depth, pungency, and tremendous sensuous force of his works; only in the last twenty years have we come to learn more about his personal life. Self-Portrait in Words maps out Beckmann's life and draws attention to the occasions on or for which he produced his writings, to the importance writing had for him as a form of expression, and to both the contemporary and personal references of his ideas and images.
Dictionary Catalog of the University Library, 1919-1962
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Best-sellers by Design
Author: Lynda J. KingPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814320006
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
An account of German literature and publishing in the 1920s and early 30s, focussing on Baum and her milieu.
Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Guide to Microforms in Print
Author: K G Saur BooksPublisher: K. G. Saur
ISBN: 9783598117121
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
Book Description
Voltaire and the Century of Light
Author: Alfred Owen AldridgePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400866952
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Taking an approach different from (hat of earlier biographers, A. Owen Aldridge examines Voltaire's literary and intellectual career chronologically, using the methods both of comparative literature and of the history of ideas. The resulting biography portrays a fascinating personality as well as a great writer and thinker. Voltaire is revealed not only through his correspondence, here extensively quoted, but through the statements others made about him in anecdotes, memoirs, and other contemporary documents. New information is introduced regarding Voltaire's sojourn in England, his later relations with English men of letters, his domestic turmoils at the court of Frederick the Great, and his contact with French contemporaries such as Montesquieu and Diderot. For the first time in any biography, attention is given to Voltaire's extensive knowledge of Spanish literature and its influence on his own work, particularly Candide. Voltaire is portrayed as a conscious participant in the Enlightenment. In his early years he was interested primarily in aesthetics and abstract philosophy; later, he passionately dedicated himself to humanitarian causes with ideological implications. Professor Aldridge brings forward evidence pointing to the contrast between these two periods in Voltaire's life. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.