Jew's Beech

Jew's Beech
Author: Annette von Droste-Hulshoff
Publisher: Alma Books
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0714547638

Based on a true story, this haunting tale centers on two brutal murders--the first of a local forester and the second of a Jewish moneylender near a beech tree--and the impact these events have on the life of Friedrich Mergel, a herdsman with a turbulent family history. A prototype of the murder mystery and a thoughtful examination of village society, this intriguing novella contains hints of the Gothic and the uncanny, including ominous thunderstorms, mysterious disappearances, eerie doppelgangers and grizzly discoveries, as well as a famously ambiguous climax.

The Jews' Beech Tree

The Jews' Beech Tree
Author: Annette von Droste–Hülshoff
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2014-03-31
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0761861920

The book provides a sentence-by-sentence translation of Die Judenbuche (1842) by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, arguably one of Germany’s greatest female poets. Often thought of as a detective novel, The Jews’ Beech Tree is as much a mystery to read today as it was in 1842. Featuring the original German and the translated English side-by-side, this text also includes three critical introductions and two additional poetry translations.

Die Judenbuche / The Jew's Beech-Tree

Die Judenbuche / The Jew's Beech-Tree
Author: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2018-03-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3743724715

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: Die Judenbuche / The Jew's Beech-Tree. Deutsch | Englisch Zweisprachige Ausgabe. Übersetzt von Lillie Winter Entstanden: Zwischen 1837 und 1841/42. Erstdruck: In: Morgenblatt für gebildete Leser (Stuttgart), 22.4.-10.5.1842 Neuausgabe. Großformat, 210 x 297 mm Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2018. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: Sämtliche Werke in zwei Bänden. Nach dem Text der Originaldrucke und der Handschriften. Herausgegeben von Günther Weydt und Winfried Woesler, Band 1–2, München: Winkler, 1973. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (Gemälde von J. Sprick, 1838). Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt. Über die Autorin: 1797 wird Anna Elisabeth Franzisca Adolphina Wilhelmina Ludovica Freiin von Droste zu Hülshoff auf der Wasserburg bei Münster, deren Namen sie trägt, in die Enge des altwestfälischen, katholischen Adels geboren. Sie kränkelt zeit ihres Lebens, scheut die Öffentlichkeit und bleibt ihrer Familie eng verbunden. Gefangen in gesellschaftlicher und konfessioneller Verpflichtung, entwickelt die Droste anhand zarter Naturwahrnehmung und poetischer, regionaler Darstellung liberale Gedanken in einer Zeit, in der dies nicht nur Frauen durchaus übel genommen wurde. Sie ist sich ihrer literarischen Begabung bewußt, plant große Arbeiten, die jedoch nur Fragmente sind, als sie 1848 in Meersburg am Bodensee einem Lungenleiden erliegt. Ihre Lyrik und die wenigen vollendeten Prosawerke machen sie dennoch zu einer der großen deutschen Dichterinnen.

Die Judenbuche

Die Judenbuche
Author: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Antisemitism
ISBN: 9780761861911

The book provides a sentence-by-sentence translation of Die Judenbuche (1842) by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, arguably one of Germany's greatest female poets. Often thought of as a detective novel, The Jews' Beech Tree is as much a mystery to read today as it was in 1842. Featuring the original German and the translated English side-by-side, this text also includes three critical introductions and two additional poetry translations.

German Literature: A Very Short Introduction

German Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Nicholas Boyle
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2008-02-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0199206597

German writers, be it Goethe, Nietzsche, Marx, Brecht or Mann, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction illuminates the particular character and power of German literature, and examines its impact on the wider cultural world.

The Jew's Beech

The Jew's Beech
Author: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Publisher: Alma Classics
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-09-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1847493556

Based on a true story, The Jew's Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia – the first of a local forester and the second of a Jewish moneylender near a beech tree - and the impact these events have on the life of Friedrich Mergel, a local herdsman with a turbulent family history. A prototype of the murder mystery and a thoughtful examination of village society, this intriguing novella contains hints of the Gothic and the uncanny - ominous thunderstorms, mysterious disappearances, eerie doppelgängers and grisly discoveries in the depths of the forest – as well as a famously ambiguous climax.

Barbary Captives

Barbary Captives
Author: Mario Klarer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 611
Release: 2022-03-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0231555121

In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Between the sixteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, pirates from Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco not only attacked sailors and merchants in the Mediterranean but also roved as far as Iceland. A substantial number of the European captives who later returned home from the Barbary Coast, as maritime North Africa was then called, wrote and published accounts of their experiences. These popular narratives greatly influenced the development of the modern novel and autobiography, and they also shaped European perceptions of slavery as well as of the Muslim world. Barbary Captives brings together a selection of early modern slave narratives in English translation for the first time. It features accounts written by men and women across three centuries and in nine different languages that recount the experience of capture and servitude in North Africa. These texts tell the stories of Christian pirates, Christian rowers on Muslim galleys, house slaves in the palaces of rulers, domestic servants, agricultural slaves, renegades, and social climbers in captivity. They also depict liberation through ransom, escape, or religious conversion. This book sheds new light on the social history of Mediterranean slavery and piracy, early modern concepts of unfree labor, and the evolution of the Barbary captivity narrative as a literary and historical genre.

The Implosion of Negativity

The Implosion of Negativity
Author: Andreas Hau
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2010
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 3839144329

Dissertation im Fachbereich Nordamerikanische Literatur und Kultur der Universität des Saarlandes. The Implosion of Negativity ist die erste Monografie zu Paul Austers Frühwerk. Bis 1980 betätigte sich Auster zehn Jahre lang fast ausschließlich als Lyriker, um danach nie wieder ein Gedicht zu veröffentlichen. The Implosion of Negativity versucht zu ergründen, wie es zu diesem Bruch kam, und analysiert detailliert Austers poetisches Vorleben. Dabei werden bislang unbeachtete Einflüsse wie Martin Buber und Paul Celan zutage gefördert. Die abschließende Untersuchung von The New York Trilogy zeigt exemplarisch, welche neuen interpretatorischen Ansätze die Kenntnis von Austers vergessenem Frühwerk ermöglicht: Der untote Lyriker wird zum Phantom, das unablässig Austers Romane heimsucht - und antreibt. Die Dissertation The Implosion of Negativity ist in englischer Sprache verfasst. Der Anhang enthält eine deutsche Zusammenfassung, eine umfassende Bibliographie und ein persönliches Interview mit Paul Auster. Englischer Klappentext: For most readers and critics Paul Auster's oeuvre begins with The New York Trilogy, yet his major success as a novelist was preceded by a decade of almost obsessive devotion to poetry. The Implosion of Negativity is the first book-length study of Paul Auster's early work. From his dense, intensely lyric sequences of the early 1970s to the more discursive style of Auster's final book of poems, Facing the Music (1980), and on to his experimental prose of the early eighties, The Implosion of Negativity traces a fascinating journey through the author's formative years. Andreas Hau's dissertation begins with a detailed analysis of Auster's early long poem "Unearth", examines overlooked influences such as Paul Celan and Martin Buber, and continues with Auster's exploration of his Jewish heritage in Wall Writing, his rediscovery of the American objectivists in "Disappearances", and his encounters with the visual arts in Fragments from Cold. Subsequent

Market Strategies and German Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century

Market Strategies and German Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century
Author: Vance Byrd
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2020-01-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3110660148

Building upon recent German Studies research addressing the industrialization of printing, the expansion of publication venues, new publication formats, and readership, Market Strategies maps a networked literary field in which the production, promotion, and reception of literature from the Enlightenment to World War II emerges as a collaborative enterprise driven by the interests of actors and institutions. These essays demonstrate how a network of authors, editors, and publishers devised mutually beneficial and, at times, conflicting strategies for achieving success on the rapidly evolving nineteenth-century German literary market. In particular, the contributors consider how these actors shaped a nineteenth-century literary market, which included the Jewish press, highbrow and lowbrow genres, and modernist publications. They explore the tensions felt as markets expanded and restrictions were imposed, which yielded resilient new publication strategies, fostered criticism, and led to formal innovations. The volume thus serves as major contribution to interdisciplinary research in nineteenth-century German literary, media, and cultural studies.

Translation and Translating in German Studies

Translation and Translating in German Studies
Author: John L. Plews
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2016-11-08
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1771122307

Translation and Translating in German Studies is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Raleigh Whitinger, a well-loved scholar of German literature, an inspiring teacher, and an exceptional editor and translator. Its twenty chapters, written by Canadian and international experts explore new perspectives on translation and German studies as they inform processes of identity formation, gendered representations, visual and textual mediations, and teaching and learning practices. Translation (as a product) and translating (as a process) function both as analytical categories and as objects of analysis in literature, film, dance, architecture, history, second-language education, and study-abroad experiences. The volume arches from theory and genres more traditionally associated with translation (i.e., literature, philosophy) to new media (dance, film) and experiential education, and identifies pressing issues and themes that are increasingly discussed and examined in the context of translation. This study will be invaluable to university and college faculty working in the disciplines in German studies as well as in translation, cultural studies, and second-language education. Its combination of theoretical and practical explorations will allow readers to view cultural texts anew and invite educators to revisit long-forgotten or banished practices, such as translation in (auto)biographical writing and in the German language classroom.