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Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Monticello : her life and times
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ISBN: 1469601761 080788250X 9780807882504 9781469601762 9780807835524 0807835528 1469619024 9781469619026 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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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.


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Das Gesetz : Novelle (1944)
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ISBN: 9783110318616 311031861X 9783110318562 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter,

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thomas Mann's novella, "The Law" portrays the events of the Exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt in a similar fashion as Mann told the story of Joseph in his Joseph novels - with gentle rationality and delicate irony. The commentaries by Volker Ladenthin and Thomas Vormbaum take up specific aspects of the story from a literary and judicial perspective.


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Hesse
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ISBN: 0674916395 0674916387 9780674916388 9780674916395 9780674737884 0674737881 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Against Nazi dictatorship,the disillusionment of Weimar, and Christian austerity, Hermann Hesse’s stories inspired a nonconformist yearning for universal values to supplant fanaticism in all its guises. He reenters our world through Gunnar Decker’s biography—a champion of spiritual searching in the face of mass culture and the disenchanted life.


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Zwischen Offenbarung und metaphysischer Losigkeit : Philosophisch-theologische Lektüre literarischer Jenseitsreisen
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ISBN: 383944683X Year: 2019 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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Infolge der Moderne schwinden absolute Erklärungsprinzipien: Man sucht Orientierung, um seine Lebenswelt und den erfahrungswissenschaftlich aufgeschlossenen Kosmos zu überschauen. Seine sich in diesem Kontext ausbildende, nie ganz bewusst gestaltete Weltanschauung artikuliert der Mensch auch in der Literatur. Antonia Bräutigam analysiert anhand von Jenseitsreisen in Werken von Autoren wie Thomas Mann, Samuel Beckett und C.S. Lewis die durch die Moderne geprägte Weltanschauung und reflektiert diese philosophisch-theologisch. Literatur erweist sich dabei als locus theologicus, als Erkenntnisort für die Theologie, das Motiv der Jenseitsreise als Daseinsmetapher von hoher theologischer Relevanz. »Die Analysen, das Poetisch-Ästhetische der jeweiligen Texte etwas vernachlässigend, leisten einen instruktiven Beitrag für den in jüngster Zeit wieder viel diskutierten Zusammenhang von Literatur und Religion.« Nils Rottschäfer, Germanistik, 61/1-2 (2020) Besprochen in: www.der-schwache-glaube.de, Konrad Schrieder, 02.08.2019


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Doktor Faustus (ver-)stimmen : Kompositionen zu Thomas Manns Roman
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ISBN: 3662626357 3662626349 Year: 2021 Publisher: Springer Nature

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In diesem Open-Access-Buch widmet sich Anna Maria Olivari der Forschungslücke der Vertonung von Thomas Manns Doktor Faustus. Sie untersucht ein Korpus von 13 unterschiedlichen Kompositionen aus dem Bereich der Neuen Musik (Opern, Monodramen, instrumentale Werke), die zwischen 1952 und 2011 entstanden sind und bisher wenig bis gar nicht rezipiert wurden. Thomas Manns Doktor Faustus ist in vielerlei Hinsicht ein breit erforschtes Werk, jedoch nicht in Bezug auf seine Vertonungen. Der Vergleich zwischen Roman und Komposition ist im Forschungsparadigma der Intermedialität angesiedelt und ermöglicht die Rekonstruktion der kompositorischen Rezeptionsgeschichte von Doktor Faustus. Die Rückkopplungseffekte zwischen Text und Musik lassen Thomas Manns Roman neu lesen. Die Autorin, Dr. Anna Maria Olivari ist Akademische Rätin auf Zeit am Lehrstuhl für neuere und neueste deutsche Literatur mit dem Schwerpunkt Gender und Diversität der Technischen Universität Dortmund. Ihre wissenschaftlichen Schwerpunkte liegen in der Musikliteraturforschung sowie in der Intersektionalitäts- und Diversitätsforschung. .


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1930
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ISBN: 177112363X 1771123621 9781771123631 9781771123624 Year: 2018 Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario

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The year 1930 can be seen as the dawn of a period of darkness, the beginning of a decade that Auden would style "low, dishonest." That year was one of the most reflective moments in modernity. After the optimism of the nineteenth century, the West had stumbled into war in 1914. It managed to survive a conflagration, but it failed in the aftermath to create something valued. In 1930, Europe was questioning itself and its own viability. Where are we heading? a number of public intellectuals asked. Who are we and how do we build moral social and political structures? Can we continue to believe in the insights and healing quality of our culture? Major thinkers-Mann, Woolf, Ortega, Freud, Brecht, Nardal, and Huxley- as well as a number of artists, including Picasso and Magritte, and musicians, such as Weill, sought to grapple with issues that remain central to our lives today: the viability of a secular Europe with Enlightenment values coming to terms with a darker view of human nature mass culture and its dangers; the rise of the politics of irrationality identity and the "other" in Western civilization new ways to represent the postwar world the epistemological dilemma in a world of uncertainty; and the new Fascism-was it a new norm or an aberration? Arthur Haberman sees 1930 as a watershed year in the intellectual life of Europe and with this book, the first to see the contributions of the public intellectuals of 1930 as a single entity, he forces a reconsideration and reinterpretation of the period.


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Die Säkularisierung des Exodus : Zur Narration von politischer Emanzipation bei Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Michael Walzer und Paolo Virno
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ISBN: 3839443741 3837643743 Year: 2019 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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Widerstand gegen Unterdrückung und Ausbeutung wird durch physische Abscheu, theoretischen Widerspruch und in einem großen Maß durch Mythen über eine machbare Befreiung animiert. Aus diesem Grund inspiriert die Erzählung des Exodus der Israeliten aus Ägypten auch heute noch dazu, für soziale Gerechtigkeit zu kämpfen. Laurin Mackowitz' Vergleich von Sigmund Freuds, Thomas Manns, Michael Walzers und Paolo Virnos Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Exodus zeigt allerdings, dass dieser Mythos nicht nur zur narrativen Verankerung von Gerechtigkeit und Freiheit, sondern ebenso zur Konstruktion nationaler Identitäten und Legitimierung despotischer Politiken benutzt werden kann.

German modernism
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ISBN: 1282360264 1423727606 9786612360268 0520940806 1598757849 9780520940802 9781423727606 9780520243019 0520243013 9781598757842 9781282360266 9780520251489 0520251482 6612360267 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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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.

Modes of faith : secular surrogates for lost religious belief.
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ISBN: 1281966908 9786611966904 0226983668 9780226983660 0226983633 9780226983639 Year: 2007 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and critical theology. Modes of Faith addresses both this decline of religious belief and the new modes of secular faith that took religion's place in the minds of many writers and poets.Theodore Ziolkowski here examines the motives for this embrace of the secular, locating new modes of faith in art, escapist travel, socialism, politicized myth, and utopian visions. James Joyce, he reveals, turned to art as an esc


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Thomas Mann in English : a study in literary translation
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ISBN: 1472544080 1441182772 9781441182777 9781441167989 1441167986 1441166807 1501318705 9781501318702 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic,

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"Thomas Mann owes his place in world literature to the dissemination of his works through translation. Indeed, it was the monumental success of the original English translations that earned him the title of 'the greatest living man of letters' during his years in American exile (1938-52). This book provides the first systematic exploration of the English versions, illustrating the vicissitudes of literary translation through a principled discussion of a major author. The study illuminates the contexts in which the translations were produced before exploring the transformations Mann's work has undergone in the process of transfer. An exemplary analysis of selected textual dimensions demonstrates the multiplicity of factors which impinge upon literary translation, leading far beyond the traditional preoccupation with issues of equivalence. Thomas Mann in English thus fills a gap both in translation studies, where Thomas Mann serves as a constant but ill-defined point of reference, and in literary studies, which has focused increasingly on the author's wider reception."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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