A Companion to the Works of Alfred Döblin
Title | A Companion to the Works of Alfred Döblin PDF eBook |
Author | Roland Dollinger |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1571134603 |
A volume of carefully focused essays illuminating the works of one of the leading 20th-century German writers.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Title | Berlin Alexanderplatz PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Döblin |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780826477897 |
Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) studied medicine in Berlin and specialized in the treatment of nervous diseases. Along with his experiences as a psychiatrist in the workers' quarter of Berlin, his writing was inspired by the work of Holderlin, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and was first published in the literary magazine, Der Sturm. Associated with the Expressionist literary movement in Germany, he is now recognized as on of the most important modern European novelists. Berlin Alexanderplatz is one of the masterpieces of modern European literature and the first German novel to adopt the technique of James Joyce. It tells the story of Franz Biberkopf, who, on being released from prison, is confronted with the poverty, unemployment, crime and burgeoning Nazism of 1920s Germany. As Franz struggles to survive in this world, fate teases him with a little pleasure before cruelly turning on him. Foreword by Alexander Stephan Translated by Eugene Jolas>
Alfred Döblin
Title | Alfred Döblin PDF eBook |
Author | Steffan Davies |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 431 |
Release | 2009-10-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110217708 |
Döblin’s texts, which range widely across contemporary discourses, are paradigms of the encounter between literary and scientific modernity. With their use of ‛Tatsachenphantasie’, they explode conventional language, seeking a new connection with the world of objects and things. This volume reassesses and reevaluates the uniquely interdisciplinary quality of Döblin’s interdiscursive, factually-inspired poetics by offering challenging new perspectives on key works. The volume analyses not only some of Döblin’s best-known novels and stories, but also neglected works including his early medical essays, political journalism and autobiographical texts. Other topics addressed are Döblin’s engagement with German history; his relation to medical discourse; his topography of Berlin; his aestheticisation of his own biography and his relation to other major writers such as Heine, Benn, Brecht and Sebald. With contributions in English and in German by scholars from Germany and the United Kingdom, the volume presents insights into Döblin that are of value to advanced researchers and to students alike.
Redeeming Words
Title | Redeeming Words PDF eBook |
Author | David Michael Kleinberg-Levin |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2013-11-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1438447817 |
Probing study of how literature can redeem the revelatory, redemptive powers of language. In this probing look at Alfred Döblin’s 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and the stories of W. G. Sebald, Redeeming Words offers a philosophical meditation on the power of language in literature. David Kleinberg-Levin draws on the critical theory of Benjamin and Adorno; the idealism and romanticism of Kant, Hegel, Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schelling; and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. He shows how Döblin and Sebald—writers with radically different styles working in different historical moments—have in common a struggle against forces of negativity and an aim to bring about in response a certain redemption of language. Kleinberg-Levin considers the fast-paced, staccato, and hard-cut sentences of Döblin and the ghostly, languorous, and melancholy prose fiction of Sebald to articulate how both writers use language in an attempt to recover and convey this utopian promise of happiness for life in a time of mourning.
A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism
Title | A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism PDF eBook |
Author | Neil H. Donahue |
Publisher | Camden House |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1571131752 |
New essays examining the complex period of rich artistic ferment that was German literary Expressionism.
Weimar on the Pacific
Title | Weimar on the Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Ehrhard Bahr |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2008-08-08 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520257952 |
In the 1930s and '40s, LA became a cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodor W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg - who were fleeing Nazi Germany. This book is the first to examine their work and lives.
A People Betrayed
Title | A People Betrayed PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Döblin |
Publisher | New York, N.Y. : Fromm International Publishing Corporation |
Pages | 668 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Fiction |
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Set in Berlin after Germany's defeat in World War I, Doblin makes vividly real the public and private dramas of a nation on the brink of revolution. He brings to life a fascinating cast of characters that includes both the makers of history and the historically anonymous.