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Eros and inwardness in Vienna
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ISBN: 1283150794 9786613150790 0226496481 9780226496481 0226496473 9780226496474 0226496473 9780226496474 9781283150798 6613150797 Year: 2003 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Although we usually think of the intellectual legacy of twentieth-century Vienna as synonymous with Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalytic theories, other prominent writers from Vienna were also radically reconceiving sexuality and gender. In this probing new study, David Luft recovers the work of three such writers: Otto Weininger, Robert Musil, and Heimito von Doderer. His account emphasizes the distinctive intellectual world of liberal Vienna, especially the impact of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in this highly scientific intellectual world. According to Luft, Otto Weininger viewed human beings as bisexual and applied this theme to issues of creativity and morality. Robert Musil developed a creative ethics that was closely related to his open, flexible view of sexuality and gender. And Heimito von Doderer portrayed his own sexual obsessions as a way of understanding the power of total ideologies, including his own attraction to National Socialism. For Luft, the significance of these three writers lies in their understandings of eros and inwardness and in the roles that both play in ethical experience and the formation of meaningful relations to the world-a process that continues to engage artists, writers, and thinkers today. Eros and Inwardness in Vienna will profoundly reshape our understanding of Vienna's intellectual history. It will be important for anyone interested in Austrian or German history, literature, or philosophy.


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Narratives of identity in Alban Berg's 'Lulu'
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ISBN: 1580468497 1580464831 Year: 2014 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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Exploring the crossroads between autobiographical narrative and musical composition, this book examines Berg's transformation of Frank Wedekind's Erdgeist (1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (1904) -- the plays used inthe formation of the libretto for Lulu -- according to notions of gender identity, social customs, and the aesthetics of modernity in Vienna of the 1920s and 1930s. While Berg modernized several aspects of the plays by Wedekind and incorporated serial techniques of composition from Arnold Schoenberg, he never let go of the idealistic Wagnerian perspectives of his youth. In fact, he went as far as reconfiguring aspects of Richard Wagner's life as anideal identity to be played out in the compositional process. In the process of composing the opera, Berg also reflected on the most important cultural figures in fin-de-siècle Vienna that affected his worldview, including Karl Kraus, Emil Lucka, Otto Weininger, and others. Adopting an approach that combines a systematic analysis of Berg's numerous sketches for Lulu, correspondence, and the finished work with interpretive models drawn from cultural studies and philosophy, this book elucidates the ways in which Berg grappled with his self-image as an "incorrigible romantic" (unverbesserliche Romantiker) at the end of his life, explaining aspects of his musical language that have been considered strange or anomalous in the scholarship. Silvio J. dos Santos is assistant professor of musicology at the University of Florida.


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On the origins of Jewish self-hatred
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ISBN: 1280494204 9786613589439 1400841887 9781400841882 9780691119229 0691119228 9781280494208 Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersy Princeton University Press

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Today, the term "Jewish self-hatred" often denotes a treasonous brand of Jewish self-loathing, and is frequently used as a smear, such as when it is applied to politically moderate Jews who are critical of Israel. In On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred, Paul Reitter demonstrates that the concept of Jewish self-hatred once had decidedly positive connotations. He traces the genesis of the term to Anton Kuh, a Viennese-Jewish journalist who coined it in the aftermath of World War I, and shows how the German-Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing came, in 1930, to write a book that popularized "Jewish self-hatred." Reitter contends that, as Kuh and Lessing used it, the concept of Jewish self-hatred described a complex and possibly redemptive way of being Jewish. Paradoxically, Jews could show the world how to get past the blight of self-hatred only by embracing their own, singularly advanced self-critical tendencies--their "Jewish self-hatred.? Provocative and elegantly argued, On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred challenges widely held notions about the history and meaning of this idea, and explains why its history is so badly misrepresented today.

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Self-hate (Psychology) --- Antisemitism --- Self-hatred (Psychology) --- Hate --- Self-perception --- Psychological aspects. --- Adage. --- Adolf Loos. --- Afrikan Spir. --- Alfred Kerr. --- Anti-Zionism. --- Anti-imperialism. --- Anti-nationalism. --- Antisemitism (authors). --- Antisemitism. --- Anxiety of influence. --- Bildung. --- Bildungsroman. --- Boris Groys. --- Buddenbrooks. --- Consciousness. --- Counter-revolutionary. --- Cultural pessimism. --- Defamation. --- Deportation. --- Edmund Husserl. --- Erudition. --- Erving Goffman. --- Feuilleton. --- Franz Kafka. --- Franz Werfel. --- Fritz Haarmann. --- German Forest. --- German nationalism. --- Germans. --- Gershom Scholem. --- Gustav Wyneken. --- Hans Gross. --- Hans Mayer. --- Hatred. --- Heinrich Heine. --- Heinrich von Kleist. --- Highbrow. --- His Family. --- Houston Stewart Chamberlain. --- Hugo Bettauer. --- Humiliation. --- Hypocrisy. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jakob Wassermann. --- Jewish assimilation. --- Jewish guilt. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Karl Kraus (writer). --- Kurt Tucholsky. --- Lecture. --- Lessing. --- Ludwig Klages. --- Ludwig Wittgenstein. --- Martin Buber. --- Modern Paganism. --- Modernity. --- Moses Mendelssohn. --- Narrative. --- Novelist. --- Oedipus complex. --- On the Jewish Question. --- Oppression. --- Oswald Spengler. --- Otto Gross. --- Otto Weininger. --- Pacifism. --- Paul Heyse. --- Persecution. --- Pessimism. --- Philosophy. --- Pity. --- Pogrom. --- Polemic. --- Prejudice. --- Prostitution. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Rainer Maria Rilke. --- Ridicule. --- Rudolf Steiner. --- Satire. --- Self-consciousness. --- Self-criticism. --- Self-hating Jew. --- Self-hatred. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- The Decline of the West. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- The Pity of It All. --- Theodor Fritsch. --- Theodor Lessing. --- Theodor. --- Thomas Mann. --- Thought. --- Vladimir Nabokov. --- Walter Benjamin. --- Writing. --- Zionism. --- Jews --- History. --- Lessing, Theodor,

Call it English
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ISBN: 0691121524 9780691121529 0691138443 9786612935589 1400829534 1282935585 9781282935587 9781400829538 9780691138442 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Woodstock Princeton University Press

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Call It English identifies the distinctive voice of Jewish American literature by recovering the multilingual Jewish culture that Jews brought to the United States in their creative encounter with English. In transnational readings of works from the late-nineteenth century to the present by both immigrant and postimmigrant generations, Hana Wirth-Nesher traces the evolution of Yiddish and Hebrew in modern Jewish American prose writing through dialect and accent, cross-cultural translations, and bilingual wordplay. Call It English tells a story of preoccupation with pronunciation, diction, translation, the figurality of Hebrew letters, and the linguistic dimension of home and exile in a culture constituted of sacred, secular, familial, and ancestral languages. Through readings of works by Abraham Cahan, Mary Antin, Henry Roth, Delmore Schwartz, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Philip Roth, Aryeh Lev Stollman, and other writers, it demonstrates how inventive literary strategies are sites of loss and gain, evasion and invention. The first part of the book examines immigrant writing that enacts the drama of acquiring and relinquishing language in an America marked by language debates, local color writing, and nativism. The second part addresses multilingual writing by native-born authors in response to Jewish America's postwar social transformation and to the Holocaust. A profound and eloquently written exploration of bilingual aesthetics and cross-cultural translation, Call It English resounds also with pertinence to other minority and ethnic literatures in the United States.

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American literature --- Bilingualism --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. --- Jews in literature. --- Jews --- Judaism and literature --- Language and languages in literature. --- Multilingualism --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- Languages. --- United States --- Literatures --- History and criticism --- Holocaust [Jewish ] (1939-1945) in literature --- Intellectual life --- Languages --- Cahan, Abraham --- Criticism and interpretation --- Schwartz, Delmore --- Paley, Grace --- Malamud, Bernard --- Antin, Mary --- Roth, Henry --- Bellow, Saul --- Ozick, Cynthia --- Roth, Philip --- Stollman, Aryeh Lev --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Language and languages --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- ABŞ --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- Spojené staty americké --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S. --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- USA --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- ZSA --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Америка (Republic) --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- САЩ --- Съединените щати --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- ولايات المتحدة --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- 미국 --- États-Unis --- É.-U. --- ÉU --- Abraham Cahan. --- Alfred Kazin. --- Allen Ginsberg. --- American Pastoral. --- Angels in America (miniseries). --- Anne Frank. --- Anti-Zionism. --- Apostrophe. --- Bar and Bat Mitzvah. --- Bartleby, the Scrivener. --- Bernstein. --- Bildungsroman. --- Blood libel. --- Call It Sleep. --- Chaim Grade. --- Charles Reznikoff. --- Conversion to Judaism. --- Cynthia Ozick. --- Dan Miron. --- Delmore Schwartz. --- Diaspora Jew (stereotype). --- Emma Lazarus. --- English poetry. --- Geoffrey Hartman. --- Gershom Scholem. --- Gilded Age. --- Gimpel the Fool. --- God Knows (novel). --- Grace Paley. --- Haggadah. --- Hamlin Garland. --- Hebrew school. --- Henry Louis Gates Jr. --- Hineni. --- His Family. --- Holocaust victims. --- In Parenthesis. --- Isaac Bashevis Singer. --- James Russell Lowell. --- Jargon. --- Jeremiad. --- Jewish American literature. --- Jewish Publication Society. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish mysticism. --- Jews. --- Jo Sinclair. --- Joseph Conrad. --- Joseph Perl. --- Judaism. --- Kabbalah. --- Karl Shapiro. --- Leslie Fiedler. --- Literary modernism. --- Lore Segal. --- Lycidas. --- Mark Twain. --- Mary Antin. --- Matzo. --- Maus. --- Meister Eckhart. --- Mezuzah. --- Mintz. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Otto Weininger. --- Pale of Settlement. --- Parody. --- Paul Celan. --- Poetry. --- Portnoy's Complaint. --- Pun. --- Purim. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson. --- Rebbetzin. --- Religion. --- Romanticism. --- Ruth Wisse. --- S. Ansky. --- Sadducees. --- Saul Bellow. --- Schnorrer. --- Scholem. --- Shekhina (book). --- Shlomo. --- Stereotypes of Jews. --- Tadeusz Borowski. --- Tevye. --- The Jewbird. --- The Joys of Yiddish. --- The Other Hand. --- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. --- The Shawl (Ozick). --- Theodore Dreiser. --- Uncle Tom. --- Wai Chee Dimock. --- Writing. --- Yeshiva. --- Yiddish. --- Yinglish. --- Zionism.

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