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  • Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr

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    "Both W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) and the Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr (1954-) were born too late to know directly the violence of the Second World War and the Holocaust, but these traumatic events are a persistent presence in their work. In a series of close readings of key prose texts, Dora Osborne examines the different ways in which the traces of a traumatic past mark their narratives. By ... Leer más

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  • Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape, Second Edition

    Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, was perhaps Europe’s first truly modern artist. His melancholy landscapes, often peopled by lonely wanderers, represent experiments towards a radically subjective art, one in which, as Friedrich wrote, the painter depicts not ‘what he sees before him, but what he sees within him.’ Yet in their awesome ... Leer más

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    de Martin Klebes ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
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  • On the Ruins of Babel

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    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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  • The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

    Edición de Nicholas Saul ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of arts and culture in Germany which produced many of the world's finest writers, artists, philosophers and composers. This volume, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism. Individual ... Leer más

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  • Afterness

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    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Rilke

    Edición de Karen Leeder, Robert Vilain ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrated by late 19th-century psychologists and art theorists, this book puts forward an innovative interpretative method of decoding the forms and spaces of Modern buildings. This method was first developed as scholars realized that the new abstract art ... Leer más

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    This accessible and fresh account of German writing since 1750 is a case study of literature as a cultural and spiritual resource in modern societies.Beginning with the emergence of German language literature on the international stage in the mid-eighteenth century, the book plays down conventional labels and periodisation of German literary history in favour of the explanatory force of ... Leer más

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