The Magic Mountain

The Magic Mountain
Author: Hermann J. Weigand
Publisher: University of North Carolina S
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781469658605

Praised highly by Mann himself, Weigand's book (originally published in 1933) is an essential piece of criticism on Mann's monumental novel. In his study of The Magic Mountain Weigand comments on the novel's genre and organization before dissecting the themes of disease and mysticism, Mann's use of irony, and other aspects of this masterpiece of German literature.

Vampires

Vampires
Author: Julien Gordon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1893
Genre:
ISBN:

Ernst Zermelo

Ernst Zermelo
Author: Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-10-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9783642080500

This biography attempts to shed light on all facets of Zermelo's life and achievements. Personal and scientific aspects are kept separate as far as coherence allows, in order to enable the reader to follow the one or the other of these threads. The presentation of his work explores motivations, aims, acceptance, and influence. Selected proofs and information gleaned from unpublished notes and letters add to the analysis.

Brownshirt Princess

Brownshirt Princess
Author: Lionel Gossman
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 1906924066

"Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a rebellious young writer who became a fervent Nazi. Heinrich Vogeler was a well-regarded artist who was to join the German Communist Party. Ludwig Roselius was a successful businessman who had made a fortune from his invention of decaffeinated coffee. What was it about the revolutionary climate following World War I that induced three such different personalities to collaborate in the production of a slim volume of poetry -- entitled Gott in mir -- about the indwelling of the divine within the human? Lionel Gossman's study situates this poem in the ideological context that made the collaboration possible. The study also outlines the subsequent life of the Princess who, until her death in 1993, continued to support and celebrate the ideals and heroes of National Socialism"--Publisher's description.

Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany

Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany
Author: Gerhild Scholz Williams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Focusing on knowledge, science and literature in early modern Germany, this collection presents 12 essays on emerging epistemologies regarding: the transcendent nature of the Divine; the natural world; the body; sexuality; intellectual property; aesthetics; demons; and witches.

In Search of the True Gypsy

In Search of the True Gypsy
Author: Wim Willems
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317791908

It has only been recognised tardily and with reluctance that during the Second World War hundreds of thousands of itinerants met the same horrendous fate as Jews and other victims of Nazism. Gypsies appear to appeal to the imagination simply as social outcasts and scapegoats or, in a flattering but no more illuminating light, as romantic outsiders. In this study, contemporary notions about Gypsies are traced back as far as possible to their roots, in an attempt to lay bare why stigmatisation of gypsies, or rather groups labelled as such, has continuned from the distant past even to today.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig
Author: Randolph J. Klawiter
Publisher: University of North Carolina S
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-05
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781469657653

Originally published in 1965, this volume presented the only comprehensive bibliography of the writings of the Austrian novelist, journalist, and playwright Stefan Zweig and of the books and articles about his work.

The Zürau Aphorisms

The Zürau Aphorisms
Author: Franz Kafka
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2006
Genre: Aphorisms and apothegms
ISBN: 1846550092

Franz Kafka spent eight months in Zurau between September 1917 and April 1918, enduring at his sister's house the onset of tuberculosis. Illness paradoxically set him free to write his settling of accounts with life, marriage, his family, guilt and man's condition. This work provides a fresh perspective on the collective work of a genius."