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As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph (1772-1836) was extremely well educated, traveled in the circles of presidents and aristocrats, and was known on two continents for her particular grace and sincerity. Yet, as mistress of a large household, she was not spared the tedium, frustration, and great sorrow that most women of her time faced. Though Patsy's name is familiar because of her famous father, Kierner is the first historian to place Patsy at the center of her own story, taking readers into the largely ignored private spaces.

Children of presidents --- Jefferson, Thomas, --- Randolph, Martha Jefferson, --- Jefferson, Martha, --- Jefferson, Patsy, --- Randolph, Patsy, --- Randolph, Thomas Mann, --- Family.

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Welche Kriterien bestimmen, wer erwachsen ist? Erfolg, der Lebenswandel, das Alter oder die Fähigkeit zur Selbstkontrolle? Was erzählen dann literarische Träume vom Kontrollentzug über das Erwachsensein? Diese Studie vergleicht erwachsene Romanfiguren, die wieder zu Kindern werden, und greift damit ein Thema auf, das bisher in der Literaturwissenschaft wenig Resonanz gefunden hat. Mit sechs poststrukturalistisch grundierten Denkfiguren, die sich an Judith Butlers Normenverständnis, Michel Foucaults Machtbegriff und Bernhard Waldenfels' Plädoyer für den Kontrollverlust anlehnen, werden gängige Definitionen hinterfragt und vier Romane aus dem amerikanischen, deutschen und französischen Sprachraum analysiert. Zentral ist Foucaults Traumkonzeption, die das Erwachsensein als Drahtseilakt zwischen Intimität und Sozialität erscheinen lässt.

Romain Gary --- Thomas Mann --- Philip Roth --- Lutz Seiler --- La vie devant soi --- Doktor Faustus --- The Human Stain --- Kruso --- Foucault --- Butler --- Waldenfels --- Hierarchy --- Normalization --- ambivalence --- grown-up --- regression --- seduction --- sexual identity --- 20th century --- 21st century

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This volume of new essays by leading scholars treats a representative sampling of German realist prose from the period 1848 to 1900, the period of its dominance of the German literary landscape. It includes essays on familiar, canonical authors -- Stifter, Freytag, Raabe, Fontane, Thomas Mann -- and canonical texts, but also considers writers frequently omitted from traditional literary histories, such as Luise Mühlbach, Friedrich Spielhagen, Louise von François, Karl May, and Eugenie Marlitt. The introduction situates German realism in the context of both German literary history and of developments in other European literatures, and surveys the most prominent critical studies of ninteenth-century realism. The essays treat the following topics: Stifter's Brigitta and the lesson of realism; Mühlbach, Ranke, and the truth of historical fiction; regional histories as national history in Freytag's Die Ahnen; gender and nation in Louise von François's historical fiction; theory, reputation, and the career of Friedrich Spielhagen; Wilhelm Raabe and the German colonial experience; the poetics of work in Freytag, Stifter, and Raabe; Jewish identity in Berthold Auerbach's novels; Eugenie Marlitt's narratives of virtuous desire; the appeal of Karl May in the Wilhelmine Empire; Thomas Mann's portrayal of male-male desire in his early short fiction; and Fontane's Effi Briest and the end of realism. Contributors: Robert C. Holub, Brent O. Petersen, Lynne Tatlock, Thomas C. Fox, Jeffrey L. Sammons, John Pizer, Hans J. Rindisbacher, Irene S. Di Maio, Kirsten Belgum, Nina Berman, Robert Tobin, Russell A. Berman. Todd Kontje is professor of German at the University of California, San Diego.

German literature --- Realism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- Young Germany --- 19th century. --- Fontane. --- Freytag. --- German Realism. --- German literary landscape. --- Jewish identity. --- Karl May. --- Luise Mühlbach. --- Raabe. --- Stifter. --- Thomas Mann. --- gender. --- historical fiction. --- poetics of work.

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Thomas Mann --- Germaine Tillion --- symbols of persecution --- Nazism --- the Assembly at Basel --- Europe --- der Anstreicher --- Church and State --- 1937 --- oppression --- the concentration camps --- the invasion of Austria --- France --- Il Duce --- Alsace-Lorraine --- terror --- war labors --- Joseph Hisiger --- Arthur Winkler --- corporal punishments --- Auschiwtz --- SS --- Kalfaktorinnen --- Dienstmädchen --- conversion --- the camps of Silesia --- Häftling Louis Piechota --- Dachau --- january 1945 --- the Red Army --- evacuation of the camps

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In this pioneering, erudite study of a pivotal era in the arts, Walter Frisch examines music and its relationship to early modernism in the Austro-German sphere. Seeking to explore the period on its own terms, Frisch questions the common assumption that works created from the later 1870's through World War I were transitional between late romanticism and high modernism. Drawing on a wide range of examples across different media, he establishes a cultural and intellectual context for late Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Arnold Schoenberg, as well as their less familiar contemporaries Eugen d'Albert, Hans Pfitzner, Max Reger, Max von Schillings, and Franz Schreker. Frisch explores "ambivalent" modernism in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as reflected in the attitudes of, and relationship between, Nietzsche and Wagner. He goes on to examine how naturalism, the first self-conscious movement of German modernism, intersected with musical values and practices of the day. He proposes convergences between music and the visual arts in the works of Brahms, Max Klinger, Schoenberg, and Kandinsky. Frisch also explains how, near the turn of the century, composers drew inspiration and techniques from music of the past-the Renaissance, Bach, Mozart, and Wagner. Finally, he demonstrates how irony became a key strategy in the novels and novellas of Thomas Mann, the symphonies of Mahler, and the operas of Strauss and Hofmannsthal.

Art and music. --- Modernism (Art) --- Modernism (Music) --- Music --- Modernism in music --- Modernist music --- Musical modernism --- Style, Musical --- Art, Modernist --- Modern art --- Modernism in art --- Modernist art --- Aesthetic movement (Art) --- Art, Modern --- Music and art --- History and criticism. --- Musique --- Modernisme (musique) --- Modernisme (art) --- Art et musique. --- 19th century european music. --- 20th century european music. --- ambivalent modernism. --- arnold schoenberg. --- austro german music. --- california studies in 20th century music. --- early modernism. --- eugen dalbert. --- franz schreker. --- german modernism. --- german naturalism. --- gustav mahler. --- hans pfitzner. --- historicist modernism. --- late richard wagner. --- max reger. --- max von schillings. --- modernism. --- modernist music. --- modernity. --- music and visual arts. --- music history. --- music. --- musicians. --- nietzsche. --- richard strauss. --- thomas mann. --- wagner.