This masterful synthesis of criticism and biography surveys all of Hermann Hesse's major works and many of his minor ones in relation to the intricate psychological design of his entire life history. ...Eugene Stelzig examines what it means to be an "autobiographical writer" by considering Hesse's fictions of the self as an exemplary instance of the relationship between life and art and between biography and autobiography. In a graceful and inviting style, he frees this major confessional writer from the confines of German culture and the status of "cult figure" of the 1960s, and situates him in the tradition of world literature and in a variety of literary, psychological, philosophical, and religious contexts.
Three introductory chapters on autobiography and Hesse set the stage for a chronological study. Then follows a penetrating analysis of the balance between biographical fact and confessional fantasy in Hesse's long career, from the failed autobiography of his first literary success, Beneath the Wheel, through the protracted midlife crisis of the grotesque Steppenwolf period, to the visionary autobiography of his magisterial fictional finale, The Glass Bead Game.
Originally published in 1988.
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How are we to think of satire if it has ceased to exist as a discrete genre? This study proposes a novel solution, understanding the satiric in the postwar era as a set of writing practices: figures ...of inversion, myth-making, and citation. By showing how writers and theorists alike deploy these devices in new contexts, this book reexamines the link between German postwar writing and the history of satire, and between literature and theory.
Wie andere Außenseiter der Literatur wurde auch Kleist häufig zum Gegenstand einer Deutungspraxis, welche die Gebrechlichkeit der Texte vor allem als Hindernis auf dem Weg zu einer einheitlichen ...Interpretation begriffen hat. Die Aufsätze des vorliegenden Bandes, die mehr oder minder deutlich vor dem Hintergrund intensiver literaturtheoretischer Debatten in Frankreich und den USA entstanden sind, nehmen Kleists Literatur in einer anderen Weise ernst. Bei aller Unterschiedlichkeit der individuellen Leseverfahren erscheint das Werk Kleists als Herausforderung an die Literaturwissenschaft. Die Herausforderung besteht nicht zuletzt darin, daß das, was als die ebenso grundlegende wie (häufig) unausgesprochene Voraussetzung jeder literaturwissenschaftlichen Arbeit im Spiel ist, von den Texten Kleists in Frage gestellt wird: die Möglichkeit des Verstehens selbst. Kleists Texte geben weniger eine äußere Realität wieder, als daß sie die epistemologischen Grenzen der Referenz zum Thema machen. Gerade deshalb bietet sich sein Werk für Untersuchungen des Verhältnisses von Literatur und Philosophie, von Sprachlichkeit und Welterfahrung, Subjekt und symbolischer Ordnung, von Gesetz und Gerechtigkeit an.
Dieses Buch ist die erste Arbeit uberhaupt uber literarische Foto-Texte, d.h. literarische Werke, in denen zwischen den abgebildeten Fotografien und dem Text ein gleichwertiges Verhaltnis besteht. ...Ein Abriss uber die Theorie der Fotografie und ein Uberblick uber die Anfange des Genres bei Rodenbach, Breton, Brecht und Tucholsky bieten eine kompakte Einfuhrung in die Thematik. Daruber hinaus werden erstmals die Fotos in den Werken der wichtigsten Vertreter des literarischen Foto-Textes - Brinkmann, Kluge und Sebald - detailliert untersucht und in einen historischen Zusammenhang gestellt.
This book contains a selection of annotated glosses and texts on the subject of language that were published in theFrankfurter Zeitungduring the Nazi period in an attempt to bypass official ...censorship. An extensive introduction elucidatesthe position of the paper in the media landscape of the Third Reich, contemporary controversies concerning "internal emigration," and the problematics of writing and reading "between the lines."
Walter Benjamin Eiland, Howard; Jennings, Michael W
2014, 2014-01-16
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Walter Benjamin was perhaps the twentieth century's most elusive intellectual. His writings defy categorization, and his improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. In a major new ...biography, Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings present a comprehensive portrait of the man and his times, as well as extensive commentary on his work.
In the years 1786 to 1790, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger wrote his three tragedies that adapt and modify classical stories. In particular the two 'Medea' dramas, the originality of which was stressed ...by Klinger himself, mark an important point in the history of the literary interpretation of this figure from classical times through to the present day. This reprint presents the first edition of the plays and, in a variant apparatus, the deviations in the authorized editions published during Klinger's lifetime as well as information concerning the creation of the dramas. Karl-Heinz Hartmann, Ulrich Profitlich und Michael Schulte,Freie UniversitätBerlin.
Das lyrische Werk Goethes hat einen wesentlichen Anteil an der Entstehung des modernen Liebesdiskurses. Die Gedichte der Leipziger, der Straßburger und der Frankfurter Jahre entfalten ebenso wie die ...Texte der Weimarer Schaffensphasen immer neue Poetiken der Liebe, die mit zeitgenössischen Positionen von der Aufklärung bis zur Spätromantik konkurrieren. Als einzigartig erweisen sich hierbei Goethes Forminnovationen, die oftmals mit interkulturellen Referenzen einhergehen.
Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political presence in the twenty-first century's advanced economies. This is reflected in cultural production, which this book discusses for a ...wide range of media and genres from the novel to reality television. With a focus on Britain, its chapters divide their attention between current representations of poverty and important earlier narratives that have retained significant relevance today.
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