Author: Paul Leppin
Publisher:
ISBN: 3752408766
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Severins Gang in die Finsternis. Ein Prager Gespensterroman by Paul Leppin
Severins Gang in Die Finsternis. Ein Prager Gespensterroman
Author: Paul Leppin
Publisher:
ISBN: 3752408766
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Severins Gang in die Finsternis. Ein Prager Gespensterroman by Paul Leppin
Publisher:
ISBN: 3752408766
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Severins Gang in die Finsternis. Ein Prager Gespensterroman by Paul Leppin
Prague Territories
Author: Scott Spector
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520929777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Scott Spector’s adventurous cultural history maps for the first time the "territories" carved out by German-Jewish intellectuals living in Prague at the dawn of the twentieth century. Spector explores the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which Franz Kafka and his contemporaries flourished, revealing previously unseen relationships between politics and culture. His incisive readings of a broad array of German writers feature the work of Kafka and the so-called "Prague circle" and encompass journalism, political theory, Zionism, and translation as well as literary program and practice. With the collapse of German-liberal cultural and political power in the late-nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, Prague’s bourgeois Jews found themselves squeezed between a growing Czech national movement on the one hand and a racial rather than cultural conception of Germanness on the other. Displaced from the central social and cultural position they had come to occupy, the members of the "postliberal" Kafka generation were dazzlingly productive and original, far out of proportion to their numbers. Seeking a relationship between ideological crisis and cultural innovation, Spector observes the emergence of new forms of territoriality. He identifies three fundamental areas of cultural inventiveness related to this Prague circle’s political and cultural dilemma. One was Expressionism, a revolt against all limits and boundaries, the second was a spiritual form of Zionism incorporating a novel approach to Jewish identity that seems to have been at odds with the pragmatic establishment of a Jewish state, and the third was a sort of cultural no-man’s-land in which translation and mediation took the place of "territory." Spector’s investigation of these areas shows that the intensely particular, idiosyncratic experience of German-speaking Jews in Prague allows access to much broader and more general conditions of modernity. Combining theoretical sophistication with a refreshingly original and readable style, Prague Territories illuminates some early signs of a contemporary crisis from which we have not yet emerged.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520929777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Scott Spector’s adventurous cultural history maps for the first time the "territories" carved out by German-Jewish intellectuals living in Prague at the dawn of the twentieth century. Spector explores the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which Franz Kafka and his contemporaries flourished, revealing previously unseen relationships between politics and culture. His incisive readings of a broad array of German writers feature the work of Kafka and the so-called "Prague circle" and encompass journalism, political theory, Zionism, and translation as well as literary program and practice. With the collapse of German-liberal cultural and political power in the late-nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, Prague’s bourgeois Jews found themselves squeezed between a growing Czech national movement on the one hand and a racial rather than cultural conception of Germanness on the other. Displaced from the central social and cultural position they had come to occupy, the members of the "postliberal" Kafka generation were dazzlingly productive and original, far out of proportion to their numbers. Seeking a relationship between ideological crisis and cultural innovation, Spector observes the emergence of new forms of territoriality. He identifies three fundamental areas of cultural inventiveness related to this Prague circle’s political and cultural dilemma. One was Expressionism, a revolt against all limits and boundaries, the second was a spiritual form of Zionism incorporating a novel approach to Jewish identity that seems to have been at odds with the pragmatic establishment of a Jewish state, and the third was a sort of cultural no-man’s-land in which translation and mediation took the place of "territory." Spector’s investigation of these areas shows that the intensely particular, idiosyncratic experience of German-speaking Jews in Prague allows access to much broader and more general conditions of modernity. Combining theoretical sophistication with a refreshingly original and readable style, Prague Territories illuminates some early signs of a contemporary crisis from which we have not yet emerged.
Kafka
Author: Reiner Stach
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151007523
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
These are also the years of Kafka's fascination with early forms of Zionism and the Yiddish theater despite his longing to be assimilated into the minority German culture in Prague; of his off-again, on-again engagement to Felice Bauer; of his long friendship with Max Brod; and of the outbreak of World War I, a war whose horrors Kafka's own writings sometimes seemed to prefigure."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151007523
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
These are also the years of Kafka's fascination with early forms of Zionism and the Yiddish theater despite his longing to be assimilated into the minority German culture in Prague; of his off-again, on-again engagement to Felice Bauer; of his long friendship with Max Brod; and of the outbreak of World War I, a war whose horrors Kafka's own writings sometimes seemed to prefigure."--BOOK JACKET.
Popular Revenants
Author: Andrew Cusack
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 1571135197
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
There is growing interest in the internationality of the literary Gothic, which is well established in English Studies. Gothic fiction is seen as transgressive, especially in the way it crosses borders, often illicitly. In the 1790s, when the English Gothic novel was emerging, the real or ostensible source of many of these uncanny texts was Germany. This first book in English dedicated to the German Gothic in over thirty years redresses deficiencies in existing English-language sources, which are outdated, piecemeal, or not sufficiently grounded in German Studies.
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 1571135197
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
There is growing interest in the internationality of the literary Gothic, which is well established in English Studies. Gothic fiction is seen as transgressive, especially in the way it crosses borders, often illicitly. In the 1790s, when the English Gothic novel was emerging, the real or ostensible source of many of these uncanny texts was Germany. This first book in English dedicated to the German Gothic in over thirty years redresses deficiencies in existing English-language sources, which are outdated, piecemeal, or not sufficiently grounded in German Studies.
Philologica Pragensia
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philology
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philology
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Severin's Journey Into the Dark
Author: Paul Leppin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Prague - a city of darkened walls and strange decay - forms the backdrop of Severin's erotic adventures and fateful encounters as he enters a world of femmes fatales, Russian anarchists, dabblers in the occult and denizens of decadent salons.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Prague - a city of darkened walls and strange decay - forms the backdrop of Severin's erotic adventures and fateful encounters as he enters a world of femmes fatales, Russian anarchists, dabblers in the occult and denizens of decadent salons.
Jewish Prague
Author: Ctibor Rybár
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Dotyczy m.in. historii polskich Żydów.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Dotyczy m.in. historii polskich Żydów.
Faszination des Okkulten
Author: Wolfgang Müller-Funk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Magic
Languages : de
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Magic
Languages : de
Pages : 420
Book Description
Sudetenland
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Czechoslovakia
Languages : de
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Czechoslovakia
Languages : de
Pages : 392
Book Description
German books in print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : German literature
Languages : de
Pages : 1650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : German literature
Languages : de
Pages : 1650
Book Description