Honor in nineteenth-century Germany is usually thought of as an anachronistic aristocratic tradition confined to the duelling elites. In this innovative study Ann Goldberg shows instead how it ...pervaded all aspects of German life and how, during an era of rapid modernization, it was adapted and incorporated into the modern state, industrial capitalism, and mass politics. In business, state administration, politics, labor relations, gender and racial matters, Germans contested questions of honor in an explosion of defamation litigation. Dr Goldberg surveys court cases, newspaper reportage, and parliamentary debates, exploring the conflicts of daily life and the intense politicization of libel jurisprudence in an era when an authoritarian state faced off against groups and individuals from 'below' claiming new citizenship rights around a democratized notion of honor and law. Her fascinating account provides a nuanced and important understanding of the political, legal and social history of imperial Germany.
This article discusses a corpus of work which constitutes British Jewish poetry and stands as a paradigm of diasporic poetry. It focuses in particular on the work of Isaac Rosenberg and Jon Silkin, ...but also introduces my anthology of British Jewish poetry, Passionate Renewal: Jewish Poetry in Britain since 1945 (2001). Further, the article theorizes the components of diasporic poetry, comprising in effect a diasporic poetics. It shows how British Jewish diasporic poetry and diasporic poetics together suggest a diasporic poetic praxis. A poem entitled 'Another Expulsion of European Jews', which appeared in my collection Senseless Hours (2009), concludes the article as an example of such synthesizing praxis.
And did those feet? Raine, Craig
TLS, the Times Literary Supplement,
08/2022
6228
Journal Article, Trade Publication Article
Raine reflects on feet which she deems as ambiguous things aesthetically. Egon Schiele prefers to mask their distracting complications in shoes and boots. On the other hand, we give our automatic ...assent to Handel's Messiah and the refrain "How beautiful are the feet"--without really registering why they are beautiful. It is because they lead us to the gospel of peace. Nothing intrinsic.But we make our assumptions about feet. We confer on them innocence. The empty slipper is the perfect emblem of the body from which the life has slipped away.
Die 1990 gegründete Reihe, die auf eine Anregung von Mazzino Montinari zurückgeht, publiziert Quellenmaterialien zu Nietzsches Leben, seinem Umkreis und seiner Wirkung. Die Supplementa stellen somit ...eine Ergänzung zu den Kritischen Ausgaben von Nietzsches Werken (KGW) und Briefen (KGB) dar.
Die Definition der Prager deutschen Literatur als humanistischer Gegenpol zur nationalistischen Provinzliteratur bestimmte lange Zeit die Forschung zur Literatur aus Böhmen und Mähren. Jörg Krappmann ...legt einen neuen Ansatz vor, der diese Dichotomie durch einen interkulturellen Blick auf die Region als Konstrukt entlarvt. Er zeigt: Der binnendeutsche Kulturtransfer erweist sich als intensiver als bisher angenommen. Dadurch entstehen neue Perspektiven für die Rezeption der ästhetischen Moderne und des Naturalismus als Epochen des Übergangs. Zugleich wird ein Plädoyer für eine Erweiterung des Kanons und eine Revision der Literaturgeschichte gehalten.
