Author: David Gethin John
Publisher: Röhrig Universitätsverlag
ISBN: 9783861103554
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Das Buch ist der erfolgreichen Geschichte eines akademischen Austauschs gewidmet. Es dokumentiert die Magister- und Doktorarbeiten, mit denen mehr als 100 Studierende einen doppelten Studienabschluss erlangten: einen deutschen und einen nordamerikanischen Titel. Die Beiträge reflektieren persönliche Erfahrungen, entwickeln innovative Konzepte interkulturellen Lehrens und Lernens, analysieren linguistische und gesellschaftliche Aspekte des Kulturkontakts, Intertextualität, Austauschprozesse sowie Kooperation und Partnerschaft für große kulturelle Inszenierungen.
Author: Lorna Fitzsimmons
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
ISBN: 1611461235
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining Goethe’s Faust and its derivatives in European, North American, and South American cultural contexts. It takes both a canonic and archival approach to Faust in studies of adaptations, performances, appropriations, sources, and the translation of the drama contextualized within cultural environments ranging from Gnosticism to artificial intelligence. Lorna Fitzsimmons’ introduction sets this scholarship within a critical framework that draws together work on intertextuality and memory. Alan Corkhill looks at the ways in which the authority of the word is critiqued in Faust and Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus.Robert E. Norton revisits the question of Herder as Faust and the early twentieth-century context in which the claim resonated. J. M. van der Laan explores the symbolic possibilities of the mysterious Eternal-Feminine. Frederick Burwick examines Coleridge’s critique of Goethe’s Faust and his own plans for a Faustian tale on Michael Scott. Andrew Bush demonstrates how Estanislao del Campo’s poem “Fausto” retells Gounod’s opera in the sociolect of Argentine gauchos. David G. John examines complete productions of Goethe’s Faust by Peter Stein and the Goetheanum. Jörg Esleben surveys contemporary Canadian interplay with Goethe’s Faust. Susanne Ledanff discusses the significance of Goethe’s Faust for Werner Fritsch’s avant-garde “Theater of the Now.” Bruce J. MacLennan examines Faust from the perspective of a researcher in several Faustian technologies: artificial intelligence, autonomous robotics, artificial life, and artificial morphogenesis.
Author: Alexander Burry
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299342107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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The story of Don Juan first appeared in writing in seventeenth-century Spain, reaching Russia about a century later. Its real impact, however, was delayed until Russia’s most famous poet, Alexander Pushkin, put his own, unique, and uniquely inspirational, spin on the tale. Published in 1830, TheStone Guest is now recognized, with other Pushkin masterpieces, as part of the Russian literary canon. Alexander Burry traces the influence of Pushkin’s brilliant innovations to the legend, which he shows have proven repeatedly fruitful through successive ages of Russian literature, from the Realist to the Silver Age, Soviet, and contemporary periods. Burry shows that, rather than creating a simple retelling of an originally religious tale about a sinful, consummate seducer, Pushkin offered open-ended scenes, re-envisioned and complicated characters, and new motifs that became recursive and productive parts of Russian literature, in ways that even Pushkin himself could never have predicted.
Author: Zina J. Gimpelevich
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773529007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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"Considered the best modern Belarusan writer and the last Eastern European literary dissident, Vasil Bykau (1924-2003) is referred to as the "conscience of a nation" for leading an intellectual crusade against Lukasenka's totalitarian regime. In exile from Belarus for several years, he was given refuge by Vaclav Havel in Czechoslovakia. Based on interviews that the author conducted with Bykau, this is the first English biography of his life. Gimpelevich also provides a literary criticism of his work, including The Ordeal and Pack of Wolves, and discusses the psychological realism of his early novels and his interest in existentialism." "The Soviet Union banned many of Vasil Bykau's novels, which often focus on the agonizing moral dilemmas faced by young officers during the horrors of war. Zina Gimpelevich's literary biography of the Belarusan anti-war and dissident writer describes the conditions under which Bykau lived in the former USSR and provides a literary and political history of Belarus from 1918-2003." --Book Jacket.
Author: Lorraine Byrne Bodley
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783272007
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Goethe's Faust, a work which has attracted the attention of composers since the late eighteenth century and played a vital role in the evolution of vocal, operatic and instrumental repertoire in the nineteenth century, hashad a seminal impact in musical realms.
Author: Lorna Fitzsimmons
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1612494730
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Faust Adaptations, edited and introduced by Lorna Fitzsimmons, takes a comparative cultural studies approach to the ubiquitous legend of Faust and his infernal dealings. Including readings of English, German, Dutch, and Egyptian adaptations ranging from the early modern period to the contemporary moment, this collection emphasizes the interdisciplinary and transcultural tenets of comparative cultural studies. Authors variously analyze the Faustian theme in contexts such as subjectivity, genre, politics, and identity. Chapters focus on the work of Christopher Marlowe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Adelbert von Chamisso, Lord Byron, Heinrich Heine, Thomas Mann, D. J. Enright, Konrad Boehmer, Mahmoud Aboudoma, Bridge Markland, Andreas Gössling, and Uschi Flacke. Contributors include Frederick Burwick, Christa Knellwolf King, Ehrhard Bahr, Konrad Boehmer, and David G. John. Faust Adaptations demonstrates the enduring meaningfulness of the Faust concept across borders, genres, languages, nations, cultures, and eras. This collection presents innovative approaches to understanding the mediated, translated, and adapted figure of Faust through both culturally specific inquiry and timeless questions.
Author: Ute Smit
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Author: Gerhard P. Bassler
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525590359
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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Today German Canadians are among Canada’s most assimilated citizens, often distinguishable from other Canadians by their name only. For centuries their pioneer farmers, economic developers, industrialists, professionals, musicians, artists, missionaries, fisherman, boat builders, and soldiers have acquired an acknowledged reputation as nation builders in Canada. Not too long ago, however, they were also associated with Canada’s enemy in two world wars, discriminated against, and subjected to infringements of their citizenship rights. Virtually overnight, Canadians of German-speaking background were recast into disloyal enemy aliens. Anti-German sentiments and stigmas, unknown in Canada before World War I, became firmly entrenched and have obliterated their legacy as nation builders. This book documents and illustrates how German Canadians have experienced Canada and how Canada has experienced German Canadians over the course of four centuries. It shows what influence Canada’s relations with Germany had on this development. This is the first comprehensive synopsis of the German experience in Canada.
Author: Imogen Feld
Publisher: Waxmann Verlag
ISBN: 3830989121
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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Results of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 2011 (PIRLS 2011) illustrate yet again that the association between reading achievement of fourth graders and social background in Germany is high compared to the OECD-country mean. This relation is less pronounced for the Canadian Provinces that are participating in PIRLS 2011. The present study conducts a comparative analysis between Germany and the participating Canadian Provinces concerning the association between parental involvement, social background, and reading achievement. This direct country comparison is extended by conducting analyses on performance groups as well as on differences between the Canadian provinces Quebec and Ontario. The approach of the current study is to use general results of large-scale assessment data to identify differences between countries and groups and to provide a more in-depth analysis of the data. A broad literature review helps to interpret the results more accurately taking additional information about the country contexts into account. Dr. Imogen Feld, Studium der Soziologie an der Philipps-Universität Marburg; 2016 Promotion an der Universität Hamburg, seit 2012 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Arbeitsbereich Evaluation von Bildungssystemen in der Fakultät Erziehungswissenschaft an der Universität Hamburg Forschungsschwerpunkte: Soziale Disparitäten, elterliche Eingebundenheit im Schulkontext, Citizenship Education und international vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft Imogen Feld studied sociology at the Philipps-University Marburg. She received her PhD from the Faculty of Education of the University of Hamburg. She worked for several years in the working group >Evaluation of Educational Systems
Author: John R. Davis
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004223495
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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The volume questions traditional nation-centred narratives of the Empire as an exclusively British undertaking by concentrating on the transnational networks of German migrants, pursued over more than two centuries in a multitude of geographical settings within the British Empire.
