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.
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was a leading figure of second-generation Viennese modernism. Appreciated in his time as an extraordinary draughtsman, he was also notorious for the blatant eroticism of his ...young female nudes and the ruthless honesty of his tortured self-portraits. A historically informed psychoanalytic approach reveals both the intrapsychic and psychohistorical significance of his work.
Schiele's explorations in portraiture were partly the product of internal conflicts on many levels. But they were also refracted through a turn-of-the-century crisis in European masculine identity. The crisis was born of social and political developments that worked to undermine middle-class males' sense of power and self-esteem, among them the woman's movement and a new cultural awareness of the psychological power of mothers and of female sexuality. These factors were especially powerful in the psychology of artists, who often felt both marginal and effeminate in a culture that valued the manly virtues of the warrior and the entrepreneur. Their effects are reflected in the fragmented self-images, overpowering mothers, and seductively self-certain girls and women of Schiele's paintings.
MacDonald documents his study with a wide range of contemporary sources, from newspapers to military memoirs. Exploring the genesis of an imperial institution through its own texts, he brings new ...insight into the Edwardian age.
The literature on Oskar Kokoschka is divided between those scholars who argue for the psychological truth of the artist's self-portraits and those who argue for their fictive artificiality. This ...debate often hinges upon the pluralistic nature of the artist's self-portraiture. If Kokoschka depicts himself in multiple guises, so the argument goes, how can his art claim to represent the "real" self? This essay contributes to the discussion by introducing current theories about the nature of the self from social psychology into the debate. By relying on the recent distinctions made between the individual, relational, and collective self, as well as the theory of symbolic self-completion, and the dramaturgical aspects certain psychologists discern in everyday behavior, such an interdisciplinary approach allows a more nuanced version of the self to emerge. On this account, the self does betray multiple facets, but those facets may not necessarily unveil hitherto disguised layers of the psyche, as much as the various ways an individual engages in deliberate self-fashioning.
Im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert traten in ganz Westeuropa zahllose spektakuläre Skandale auf. Es kam zu Enthüllungen über Korruption, Ehebrüche und koloniale Gewalt, die zu politischen Krisen und ...grenzübergreifender Empörung führten. Frank Bösch untersucht diese politischen Skandale erstmalig systematisch, international vergleichend und anhand von umfassenden Archivquellen. Er analysiert Verlauf und Wirkungen der Skandale und fragt, inwieweit sie die politische Kommunikation, Machtstrukturen und kulturellen Normen beeinflussten. Zudem zeigt die Studie, wie sich in Deutschland und Großbritannien das Verhältnis von Politik, Medien und Öffentlichkeit veränderte und verdeutlicht die Interaktionen und Annäherungen zwischen den beiden Ländern.
Robert Jentzsch, mathematician and poet Duren, Peter; Herbig, Anne-Katrin; Khavinson, Dmitry
The Mathematical intelligencer,
06/2008, Letnik:
30, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Duren et al investigate the life of mathematician Robert Jentzsch. Jentzsch was born in Konigsberg on Nov 4, 1890, the youngest in a family of four children. After attending the Konigliches Wilhelms ...Gymnasium in Konigsberg and the Prinz-Heinrichs Gymnasium in Berlin, Jentzsch studied mathematics for one semester in Jena and then entered the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat zu Berlin in 1908. He studied in Munich during the years 1911-1912, but returned to Berlin in 1912. Concurrently with his mathematical studies, while performing at such a high level, Jentzsch had been actively writing poetry. He was a member of the Neue Club, a group of young expressionist writers in Berlin that included Robert's close friend and fellow-poet Georg Heym, whose poetry is still known in Germany today. On March 21, 1918, he was killed in battle, hit by a chain-bomb on the Ossu heights above the Cambrai-St.-Quentjn canal.
