Author: Guy de Pourtal�sPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244240086
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Louis II de Bavi�re ou Hamlet Roi
Author: Guy de Pourtal�sPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244240086
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Jews & Gender
Author: Nancy Anne HarrowitzPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781566392488
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
In 1903 Otto Weininger, A Viennese Jew who converted to Protestantism, publishedGeschiecht und Charakter(Sex and Character), a book in which he set out to prove the moral inferiority and character deficiency of "the woman" and "the Jew." Almost immediately, he was acclaimed as a young genius for bringing these two elements together. Shortly thereafter, at the age of twenty-three, Weininger committed suicide in the room where Beethoven had died. Weininger's sensationalized death immortalized him as an intellectual who expressed the abject misogyny and antisemitism. This collection of essays, many translated into English for the first time, examines Weininger's influence and reception in Western culture, particularly his impact on important writers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, and James Joyce. One essay considers the ways Weininger's ideas were used to further Nazi ideology, and several offer feminist approaches to interpreting the intersection of antisemitism and misogyny. The concluding essay explores Weininger's surprising role in Israel's ongoing sociopolitical self-definition through the bold production of Joshua Sobol's play, "The Soul of a Jew (Weininger's Last Night)." This volume 's close examination of Weininger's ideas, and their subsequent appearance in other well-known texts, suggests how the legacies of prejudice affect Western culture today. Author note: Nancy A. Harrowitzis author ofAntisemitism, Misogyny and the Logic of Cultural Difference: Cesare Lombroso and Matilde Seraoand editor ofTainted Greatness: Antisemitism and Cultural Heroes(Temple). Barbara Hyamsis Lecturer with the rank of Assistant Professor of German at Brandeis University.
The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic
Author: Clive BloomPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030408663
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 867
Book Description
By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic—the literature of disturbance and uncertainty—now produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual crimes, drug filled hallucinations, the terrible secrets of middle class marriage, imperial horror at alien invasion, occult demonism and the insanity of psychopaths. It was from the 1830s onwards that the old gothic castle gave way to the country house drawing room, the dungeon was displaced by the sewers of the city and the villains of early novels became the familiar figures of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, Dorian Grey and Jack the Ripper. After the death of Prince Albert (1861), the Gothic became darker, more morbid, obsessed with demonic lovers, blood sucking ghouls, blood stained murderers and deranged doctors. Whilst the gothic architecture of the Houses of Parliament and the new Puginesque churches upheld a Victorian ideal of sobriety, Christianity and imperial destiny, Gothic literature filed these new spaces with a dread that spread like a plague to America, France, Germany and even Russia. From 1830 to 1914, the period covered by this volume, we saw the emergence of the greats of Gothic literature and the supernatural from Edgar Allan Poe to Emily Bronte, from Sheridan Le Fanu to Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. Contributors also examine the fin-de-siècle dreamers of decadence such as Arthur Machen, M P Shiel and Vernon Lee and their obsession with the occult, folklore, spiritualism, revenants, ghostly apparitions and cosmic annihilation. This volume explores the period through the prism of architectural history, urban studies, feminism, 'hauntology' and much more. 'Horror', as Poe teaches us, 'is the soul of the plot'.
The First Hundred Years of Wagner's Tristan
Author: Elliott ZuckermanPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Explores Wagner's Tristan, from the writing and launching of the music, to its first performance and how it affected the people associated with it, through the music criticism and theory attached to it.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2754
Book Description
Siegfried's Curse; the German Journey from Nietzsche to Hesse
Author: Wayne AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, German
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
German history from Bismarck to Hitler.
The New International Year Book
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ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
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