Early 20th Century German Fiction: A. Döblin, L. Feuchtwanger, A. Seghers, A. Zweig

Early 20th Century German Fiction: A. Döblin, L. Feuchtwanger, A. Seghers, A. Zweig
Title Early 20th Century German Fiction: A. Döblin, L. Feuchtwanger, A. Seghers, A. Zweig PDF eBook
Author Alexander Stephan
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 304
Release 2003-03-17
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780826414557

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This collection of High Modernism among Austrian and German writers includes:--Pogrom and a selection from The Case of Sergeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig--"The Murder of a Buttercup" and a selection from Berlin Alexanderplatz (recently cited as one of the 100 Most Meaningful Books of All Time in a survey that was reported in The Guardian, and made into a landmark multipart television series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder) by Alfred D÷blin--Selections from Jew Snss and The Oppermans by Lion Feuchtwanger--A selection from The Seventh Cross and "Excursion of the Dead Girls" by Anna Seghers>

Refuge and Reality

Refuge and Reality
Title Refuge and Reality PDF eBook
Author Pól O'Dochartaigh
Publisher BRILL
Pages 148
Release 2016-08-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9401202699

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This volume brings together papers by scholars from Germany, the USA, France, England and Ireland given at the first International Feuchtwanger Conference, held in Los Angeles in 2003. Some of Lion Feuchtwanger’s novels from his exile in the United States are analyzed here, as are the lives of Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger and their contacts in the German émigré world in California. In addition, two papers focus on aspects of Bertolt Brecht’s and Alfred Döblin’s lives as emigrants in California. This volume is of interest to students of exile studies, of German refuge in the USA and of modern German literature.

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front
Title All Quiet on the Western Front PDF eBook
Author Erich Maria Remarque
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 288
Release 2004-01-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0826416535

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"Written during the last years of the Weimar Republic, the two novels collected here address the urgent problems of that age. Both Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) and Joseph Roth (1894-1939) served in World War I, Remarque with the German army and Roth with the Austrian. Their experiences would help define what Gertrude Stein referred to as the "Lost Generation." All Quiet on the Western Front is the testimony of a soldier who had become aware of how much he, and those of his generation who had survived, had been affected by the trauma of the Great War. For Joseph Roth, World War I had cost him his homeland and turned him into a nomad. Job, in abridged form for The German Library, addresses the theme of Jewish identity in a newly mobilized society."--Jacket.

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht
Title Bertolt Brecht PDF eBook
Author Bertolt Brecht
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 193
Release 2003-11-26
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0826415059

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Long in preparation and in considerable demand, here are the essential poems and prose of one of the giants of 20th century world literature. Following an authoritative introduction by Reinhold Grimm, the volume includes German and English poems on facing pages.

The Americanization of Europe

The Americanization of Europe
Title The Americanization of Europe PDF eBook
Author Alexander Stephan
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 454
Release 2006
Genre History
ISBN 9781845450854

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Using Germany as a case study of the impact of American culture throughout a period characterized by a totalitarian system, two destructive wars, ethnic cleansing, and economic disaster, this book explores the political and cultural parameters of Americanization and anti-Americanism.

The Devil's General and Germany: Jekyll and Hyde

The Devil's General and Germany: Jekyll and Hyde
Title The Devil's General and Germany: Jekyll and Hyde PDF eBook
Author Carl Zuckmayer
Publisher Continuum
Pages 320
Release 2005-06-14
Genre Drama
ISBN

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Both works in this volume - a play by Carl Zuckmayer (1896-1977) and an unusual contemporary study of Nazi Germany by Sebastian Haffner (1907-99) - bear testimony to the disturbing events that were to change German history in the aftermath of World War I. The abridged translation of The Devil's General, which was approved by Zuckmayer himself, is about a World War I flier who commits suicide as he comes to realize the unintended havoc he has wrought in his obsession to fly. Sebastian Haffner, whose real name was Raimund Pretzel (which was changed with the publication of Germany: Jekyll and Hyde), remained a controversial journalist all his life, working for both left-wing and right-wing journals. The work excerpted here was written in 1940 when Haffner, reared in a liberal tradition, was in a British detention camp as an enemy alien.

Cultural politics and the politics of culture

Cultural politics and the politics of culture
Title Cultural politics and the politics of culture PDF eBook
Author Helen Fehervary
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 498
Release 2007
Genre History
ISBN 9783039110766

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Dieser Band ist Alexander Stephan gewidmet und spiegelt dessen wissenschaftliche Interessengebiete und Leistungen wider. Das Buch enthält Aufsätze von führenden Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern zur Politik und Kultur deutsch-amerikanischer Beziehungen sowie zur Tradition der Kulturvermittlung. Die Themen reichen von der aktuellen Politik, Kulturdiplomatie und Amerikanisierung bis zur historischen Auseinandersetzung mit mitteleuropäischen Künstlern und Schriftstellern, die als Intellektuelle einen wesentlichen Einfluss auf die Kulturpolitik der 20er Jahre und auf die Zeit nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg ausübten. This volume reflects the scholarly interests and achievements of Alexander Stephan in whose honor it was conceived. The book presents essays by leading international scholars on the contours of politics and culture in German-American relations as well as broader traditions of cultural mediation. Topics range from current concerns about public policy and cultural diplomacy, Americanization and anti-Americanism to historical considerations of Central European artists and writers who as public intellectuals had significant impact on the politics of culture after World War Two and earlier.