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"Daß wir irgendwann irgendwohin laufen"
Tectum Verlag 2011; US$ 22.03Hauptbeschreibung Der deutsch-amerikanische Schriftsteller Reinhard Lettau (1929 - 1996) wurde vor allem für die Fantasie und Sprachkunst seiner Gedichte, Kurzgeschichten und Essays gelobt. Er war als Mitglied der Gruppe 47 in den 60er- und 70er-Jahren ein prominentes Mitglied des Literaturbetriebs, zumal, als er nach seiner öffentlichen Kritik an... more...
"Dearest Georg": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times
Other Press 2010; US$ 17.99In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti were married in Vienna. Elias describes the arrangement to his brother Georges as a ?functional? marriage. Meanwhile, an intense intellectual love affair develops between Veza and Georges, a young doctor suffering fromtuberculosis. Four years later, Veza and Elias flee Nazi-ruled Vienna to London, where... more...
"Dearest Georg": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times
Other Press 2010;In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti were married in Vienna. Elias describes the arrangement to his brother Georges as a “functional” marriage. Meanwhile, an intense intellectual love affair develops between Veza and Georges, a young doctor suffering fromtuberculosis. Four years later, Veza and Elias flee Nazi-ruled Vienna to London,... more...
"Escape to Life"
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 182.00After 1933, New York City gave shelter to many leading German and German-Jewish intellectuals. This compendium, adopting the title of a volume published by Klaus and Erika Mann in 1939, explores the impact the US, and NYC in particular, had on these authors as well as the influence they in turn exerted on US intellectual life. Moreover, it addresses... more...
"Geschenke an Aufmerksame"
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 91.00This book provides access to the Jewish mystic side of selected poems by Paul Celan. The reader is led to a crossing point in the poem with the poet's consciously or unconsciously instilled cultural knowledge. Here an interpretation is proposed which correlates with the poet?s cultural knowledge and reading experience. Thus many of Celan?s poems follow... more...
"Heil dem Bürger des kleinen Städtchens"
De Gruyter 2002; US$ 126.00Proceeding from an examination of basic tenets in systems theory, the author sets out to review received assumptions about the history of idyllic literature in the 18th century. Consideration of the social theories underlying the idyll as a literary genre casts a different light on the source material from Geßner to Goethe, revealing that in Enlightenment... more...
"High" und "low"
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 126.00The history of aesthetics portrays the relationship between ?high? and ?low?, i.e. between high and popular culture, as being strongly antagonistic. On the other hand crossovers to ?illegitimate? forms of art, the integration of various forms of non-art and a striking appreciation of ?accessory parts? or the supposedly secondary have become a programmatic... more...
"In allen Elementen Gottes Gegenwart"
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 22.03Hauptbeschreibung Schon früh hat sich Goethe mit Fragen der Religion beschäftigt. Günter Niggl spürt diesem Phänomen in einem ebenso gelehrten wie lesbaren Essay nach. Er verfolgt Goethes religiöse Entwicklung durch alle Schaffensphasen und gewährt damit einen profunden Einblick in Goethes Glaubenswelt. Die intensive Beschäftigung des Dichters mit... more...
"Meine Gefängnisse": Tagebücher 1943 - 1945
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 126.00The Vienna-born writer Emil Alphons Rheinhardt (1889?1945)was was arrested in France in 1943 and then deported to Dachau concentration camp, where he died shortly before the liberation. Rheinhardt?s notes from the Gestapo prisons bear witness to a long-forgotten humanist who believed in the peacemaking power of culture. more...
"Sich an den Tod heranpürschen ..."
Wallstein Verlag 2012; US$ 26.44Hauptbeschreibung Der hier erstmals komplett abgedruckte Briefwechsel zwischen Hermann Broch und Egon Vietta gehört zu den interessantesten Dichterzeugnissen des 20. Jahrhunderts und speziell der Zeit um den Zweiten Weltkrieg. Diskutiert werden hier die neuesten philosophischen Strömungen - z.B. Phänomenologie, Existentialismus und negative Theologie... more...
