Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters

Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters
Title Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters PDF eBook
Author Michael Wood
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 259
Release 2019-06-27
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1611462932

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Focusing on particular cases of Anglo-German exchange in the period known as the Sattelzeit (1750-1850), this volume of essays explores how drama and poetry played a central role in the development of British and German literary cultures. With increased numbers of people studying foreign languages, engaging in translation work, and traveling between Britain and Germany, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to unprecedented opportunities for intercultural encounters and transnational dialogues. While most research on Anglo-German exchange has focused on the novel, this volume seeks to reposition drama and poetry within discourses of national identity, intercultural transfer, and World Literature. The essays in the collection cohere in affirming the significance of poetry and drama as literary forms that shaped German and British cultures in the period. The essays also consider the nuanced movement of texts and ideas across genres and cultures, the formation and reception of poetic personae, and the place of illustration in cross-cultural, textual exchange.

Congress Volume Aberdeen 2019

Congress Volume Aberdeen 2019
Title Congress Volume Aberdeen 2019 PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 520
Release 2022-06-08
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004515100

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This volume presents the main lectures of the 23rd Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) held in Aberdeen, United Kingdom, in August 2019.

Mediation and Children's Reading

Mediation and Children's Reading
Title Mediation and Children's Reading PDF eBook
Author Anne Marie Hagen
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 265
Release 2022-03-29
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1611463270

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This collection of essays explores the cultural significance of children’s reading by analyzing a series of Anglo-American case studies from the eighteenth century to the present. Marked by historical continuity and technological change, children’s reading proves to be a phenomenon with broad influence, one that shapes both the development of individual readers and wider social values. The essays in this volume capture such complexity by invoking the conception of “mediation” to approach children’s reading as a site of interaction among individual people, material texts, and institutional networks. Featuring a range of scholarly perspectives from the disciplines of literature, education, graphic design, and library and information science, this collection uncovers both the intricacies and wider stakes of children’s reading. The books, public programs, and archives that focus explicitly on children’s interests and needs are powerful arenas that give expression to the key ideological investments of a culture.

A Pedagogy of Observation

A Pedagogy of Observation
Title A Pedagogy of Observation PDF eBook
Author Vance Byrd
Publisher Bucknell University Press
Pages 219
Release 2017-11-10
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1611488559

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A Pedagogy of Observation argues that the fascination with learning about the past and new locations in panoramic form spread far from the traditional sites of popular entertainment and amusement. Although painted panoramas captivated audiences from Hamburg to Leipzig and Berlin to Vienna, relatively few people had direct access to this invention. Instead, most Germans in the early nineteenth century encountered panoramas for the first time through the written word. The panorama experience described inthis book centers on the emergence of a new type of visual language and self-fashioning in material culture adopted by Germans at the turn of the nineteenth century, one that took cues from the pedagogy of observing and interpreting space at panorama shows. By reading about what editors, newspaper correspondents, and writers referred to as “panoramas,” curious Germans learned about a new representational medium and a new way to organize and produce knowledge about the scenes on display, even if they had never seen these marvels in person. Like an audience member standing on a panorama platform at a show, reading about panoramas transported Germans to new worlds in the imagination, while maintaining a safe distance from the actual transformations being portrayed. A Pedagogy of Observation identifies how the German bourgeois intelligentsia created literature as panoramic stages both for self-representation and as a venue for critiquing modern life. These written panoramas, so to speak, helped German readers see before their eyes industrial transformations, urban development, scientific exploration, and new possibilities for social interactions. Through the immersive act of reading, Germans entered an experimental realm that fostered critical engagement with modern life before it was experienced firsthand. Surrounded on all sides by new perspectives into the world, these readers occupied the position of the characters that they read about in panoramic literature. From this vantage point, Germans apprehended changes to their immediate environment and prepared themselves for the ones still to come.

Strange Meetings

Strange Meetings
Title Strange Meetings PDF eBook
Author Peter Edgerly Firchow
Publisher CUA Press
Pages 302
Release 2008
Genre History
ISBN 0813215331

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Building upon his earlier book The Death of the German Cousin (1986), renowned author Peter Edgerly Firchow focuses Strange Meetings on major modern British writers from Eliot to Auden and explores the development of British conceptions and misconceptions of Germany and Germans from 1910 to 1960.

Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature

Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature
Title Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature PDF eBook
Author William Grange
Publisher Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
Pages 0
Release 2009
Genre Austrian literature
ISBN 9780810859654

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Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature is devoted to one of the most intriguing bodies of modern literature, that produced in the German language, whether from Germany, Austria, Switzerland or writers using German in other countries. The linguistic consanguinity of these locales notwithstanding, there are considerable variations in literary tenor and approach within each of them. This volume covers an extensive period of time, beginning in 1945 at what was called "zero hour" for German literature and proceeds through the remainder of the 20th century, concluding in 2008.

The Flight Into Inwardness

The Flight Into Inwardness
Title The Flight Into Inwardness PDF eBook
Author Timothy J. Lukes
Publisher Susquehanna University Press
Pages 186
Release 1985
Genre Art
ISBN 9780941664042

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In his more recent works, Herbert Marcuse has come to appreciate the liberatory potential of the aesthetic practice. This book traces the development of that appreciation. A discussion of Kant's aesthetic theory, and Marcuse's improvement of it, is included.