Author: Walther MattheyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Die Historischen Erzählungen Des Carl Franz Van Der Velde
Reading German II
Author: Jörg Matthias-RochePublisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN: 1551303582
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Reading German II, the official exercise book for Reading German, the web-based reading comprehension course of Deutsch-Uni Online, provides the perfect way to improve your understanding of the German language, even with little or no prior knowledge. Especially effective for students in select English-taught subjects at German universities and in beginner's German courses within the English-speaking world, Reading German II presents a wide variety of readings and exercises and offers a contemporary view on what shapes the German language and culture. Ideal for use in blended learning instruction, this authoritative manual's well-balanced step-by-step progression also allows for completely independent learning.
A Study of the Major Novellas of E.T.A. Hoffmann
Author: Birgit RöderPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1571132716
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Analysis of the novellas of the German Romantic writer and composer, focusing on the issues of art and the artist. The German Romantic writer and composer E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) -- perhaps best known to the English-speaking world through his Nutcracker and through Jacques Offenbach's opera Tales of Hoffmann -- struggled toconvince his predominantly bourgeois public of the merits of art and literature. Not surprisingly, many of his most important novellas are bound up with the dilemmas of art and the challenges faced by the Romantic artist, and itis these Künstlernovellen that are the focus of this study. Birgit Röderargues that Hoffmann's artists are not simply individuals who create works of art, but rather figures through whom the author explores the predicamentof those who reject the conventional world of bourgeois reality and seek to assert the claims of the imagination in a world dominated by prosaic rationalism. Contrary to previous scholars however, Röder demonstrates that Hoffmann's novellas clearly warn against a view of art as an autonomous aesthetic realm cut off from the world of reality. This is particularly apparent in Röder's analysis of gender relations in Hoffmann's oeuvre -- especially the relationship between (male) artist and (female) muse -- which underlines the extent to which art, literature, and the imagination are inseparably bound up with the prevailing social reality. The novellas that are given extensive consideration are Das Fräulein von Scuderi, Der Sandmann, Die Jesuiterkirche in G., Die Fermate, Der Artushof, Don Juan, Das Sanctus, and Rat Krespel. Birgit Röder teaches German language and literature at the University of Reading, UK.
The Tales of Hoffmann
Author: William GermanoPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137451211
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) is a unique and important film, both in the history of British cinema and in the history of interdisciplinary art-making. It is the first full-throttle presentation of an opera on screen: a Technicolor exploration of romance, fantasy, and failure, more danced than sung.
Monatsschrift Für Das Deutsche Geistesleben
Author: E.T.A. Hoffmann and Alcohol
Author: Victoria Dutchman-SmithPublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1906540233
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Originally published as author's thesis (Ph.D.--Trinity College, Cambridge).
Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture
Author: Laurence SenelickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108326242
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Offenbach's operas were a significant force for cultural change, both in his own time and in the decades to follow. In this book, Laurence Senelick demonstrates the ways in which this musical phenomenon took hold globally, with Offenbach's work offering an alternative, irreverent, sexualized view of life which audiences found liberating, both personally and socially. In the theatre, the composer also inspired cutting-edge innovations in stagecraft and design, and in this book, he is recognized as a major cultural influence, with an extensive impact on the spheres of literature, art, film, and even politics. Senelick argues that Offenbach's importance spread far beyond France, and that his provocative and entertaining works, often seen as being more style than substance, influenced numerous key artists, writers, and thinkers, and made a major contribution to the development of modern society.
The Aesthetics of Fear in German Romanticism
Author: Paola MayerPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228000262
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Enlightenment – both the phenomenon specific to the eighteenth century and the continuing trend in Western thought – is an attempt to dispel ignorance, achieve mastery of a potentially hostile environment, and contain fear of the unknown by promoting science and rationality. Enlightenment is often accompanied and challenged by countercultures such as German Romanticism, which explored the nature of fear and deployed it as a corrective to the excesses of rationalism. The Aesthetics of Fear in German Romanticism uncovers the formative role this movement played in the development of dark or negative aesthetics. Recovering a missing chapter in the history of the aesthetics of fear, Paola Mayer illustrates that Romanticism was a crucial transitional phase between the eighteenth-century sublime and the early twentieth-century uncanny. Mayer puts literature and philosophy in dialogue, examining how German Romantic literature employed narratives of fear to radicalize and then subvert the status quo in society, culture, and science. She traces the development of this aesthetic from its inception with pre-Romantics such as Jean Paul Richter to its end in Joseph von Eichendorff's critical retrospective, and juxtaposes canonical authors such as E.T.A. Hoffmann – the father of the modern fantastic – with writers who have previously been ignored. Today, when the dark side of science looms in the foreground, The Aesthetics of Fear in German Romanticism points to the power of a literary movement to construct competing currents of thought.
Concerto in F Major for Organ and Orchestra
Author: George Frideric HandelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with orchestra
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
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