Ilse Aichinger: "Die Größere Hoffnung"
Author : Gail Wiltshire
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 2016-06
Category :
ISBN : 9783826059216
The Long Aftermath
Author : Manuel Bragança
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1782381546
Book Description
In its totality, the “Long Second World War”—extending from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War to the end of hostilities in 1945—has exerted enormous influence over European culture. Bringing together leading historians, sociologists, and literary and film scholars, this broadly interdisciplinary volume investigates Europeans’ individual and collective memories and the ways in which they have shaped the continent’s cultural heritage. Focusing on the major combatant nations—Spain, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, and Russia—it offers thoroughly contextualized explorations of novels, memoirs, films, and a host of other cultural forms to illuminate European public memory.
The Child's View of the Third Reich in German Literature
Author : Debbie Pinfold
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 2001-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191554197
Book Description
This book examines the ways in which German authors have used the child's perspective to present the Third Reich. It considers how children at this time were brought up and educated to accept unquestioningly National Socialist ideology, and thus questions the possibility of a traditional naive perspective on these events. Authors as diverse as Günter Grass, Siegfried Lenz, and Christa Wolf, together with many less well-known writers, have all used this perspective, and this raises the question as to why it is such a popular means of confronting the enormity of the Third Reich. This study asks whether this perspective is an evasive strategy, a means of gaining new insights into the period, or a means of discovering a new language which had not been tainted by Nazism. This raises and addresses issues central to a post-war aesthetic in German writing.
The Bound Man, and Other Stories
Author : Ilse Aichinger
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 1955
Category :
ISBN :
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Bad Words
Author : Ilse Aichinger
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
"I now no longer use the better words." Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) was one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, she survived World War II in Vienna, while her twin sister Helga escaped with one of the last Kindertransporte to England in 1938. Many of their relatives were deported and murdered. Those losses make themselves felt throughout Aichinger's writing, which since her first and only novel, The Greater Hope, in 1948, has highlighted displacement, estrangement, and a sharp skepticism toward language. By 1976, when she published Bad Words in German, her writing had become powerfully poetic, dense, and experimental. This volume presents the whole of the original Bad Words in English for the first time, along with a selection of Aichinger's other short stories of the period; together, they demonstrate her courageous effort to create and deploy a language unmarred by misleading certainties, preconceived rules, or implicit ideologies.
Vienna Is Different
Author : Hillary Hope Herzog
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0857451820
Book Description
Assessing the impact of fin-de-siècle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the Austrian Empire and later the Austrian nation, assumed a special significance in the imaginations of Jewish writers as a space and an idea. The author focuses on the special relationship between Austrian-Jewish writers and the city to reveal a century-long pattern of living in tension with the city, experiencing simultaneously acceptance and exclusion, feeling “unheimlich heimisch” (eerily at home) in Vienna.
Selected Poetry & Prose
Author : Ilse Aichinger
Publisher : Durango, Colo. : Logbridge-Rhodes
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
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German and European Poetics After the Holocaust
Author : Gert Hofmann
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1571132902
Book Description
New essays on poetical and theoretical responses to the Holocaust's rupture of German and European civilization. Crisis presents chances for change and creativity: Adorno's famous dictum that writing poetry after Auschwitz would be barbaric has haunted discourse on poetics, but has also given rise to poetic and theoretical acts of resistance. The essays in this volume discuss postwar poetics in terms of new poetological directions and territory rather than merely destruction of traditions. Embedded in the discourse triggered by Adorno, the volume's foci include the work of Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn, and Ingeborg Bachmann. Other German writers discussed are Ilse Aichinger, Rose Ausländer, Charlotte Beradt, Thomas Kling, Heiner Müller, and Nelly Sachs; concrete poetry is also treated. The final section offers comparative views of the poetics of European literary figures such as Jean Paul Sartre, André Malraux, and Danilo Kis and a consideration of the aesthetics of Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah. Contributors: Chris Bezzel, Manuel Bragança, Gisela Dischner, Rüdiger Görner, Stefan Hajduk, Gert Hofmann, Aniela Knoblich, Rachel MagShamhráin, Marton Marko, Elaine Martin, Barry Murnane, Marko Pajevic, Tatjana Petzer, Renata Plaice, Annette Runte, Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, Michael Shields, Peter Tame. Gert Hofmann is a Lecturer in German, Comparative Literature, Drama, and Film and Rachel MagShamhráin is a Lecturer in German, Film, and Comparative Literature, both at University College Cork; Marko Pajevic is a Lecturer in German at Queen's University Belfast; Michael Shields is a Lecturer in German at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Distant Kinship
Author : Matthias N. Lorenz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 40,38 MB
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3476058786
Book Description
This study of Joseph Conrad's influential work "Heart of Darkness" presents for the first time the German-language reception of this reference text in the debate on postcolonialism. The spectrum ranges from Conrad's contemporaries (like Kafka) to many canonical authors of the 20th century (including Thomas Mann, Ernst Jünger, Christa Wolf) to the most recent names in literature (i.e. Christian Kracht und Lukas Bärfuss). Beyond the readings of their works, the study contributes to the study of cultural transfers as well as to Conrad philology, and it expands the theory of intertextuality with parameters that capture the complex factor of power in postcolonial relations.
Nazi Characters in German Propaganda and Literature
Author : Dagmar C. G. Lorenz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004365265
Book Description
Antifascist literature repurposed Nazi stereotypes to express opposition. These stereotypes became adaptable ideological signifiers during the political struggles in interwar Germany and Austria, and they remain integral elements in today’s cultural imagination.
