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"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...
"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...
"Sich an den Tod heranpürschen ..."
Wallstein Verlag 2012; US$ 26.08Hauptbeschreibung 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...
"Wer ist das: ich? Wo hats ein End?" Zur 'Infragestellung des Subjekts? in der Wiener Moderne am Beispiel Hugo von Hofmannsthals
Diplomica Verlag 2010; US$ 14.19Die vorliegende Forschungsarbeit versteht sich als Beitrag zur Moderne-Diskussion im Kontext einer spezifisch modernen und Modernität begründeten Mythenrezeption in der österreichischen Literatur um und ab 1900. Hauptgegenstand sind die Krisen und Aporien der Subjektidentität des Wiener Fin de siècle, wie sie sich auf exemplarische Weise sowohl in... more...
¡Juguemos! (Let's Play)
Shell Education 2010; US$ 8.99Did you know that you use subtraction when you play games? Everything from picking a winning team, jumping rope, and playing hopscotch uses subtraction. See subtraction in action as you read this book! 32pp. more...
Agamben's Joyful Kafka
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 23.99Both Giorgio Agamben and Franz Kafka are best known for their gloomy political worldview. A cautious study of Agambens references on Kafka, however, reveals another dimension right at the intersection of their works: a complex and unorthodox theory of freedom. The inspiration emerges from Agambens claims that it is a very poor reading... more...
Alfred Andersch 'revisited'
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 140.00Although W.G. Sebald established a link between the life and work of Alfred Andersch, which became the subject of a scandal, his approach was strongly rejected by many, especially in Germany, as an inadmissible combination of fundamentally different aspects. It thus remains unclear to this day how literary construction and autobiographical material... more...









