Download E-books Dostoevsky in Context (Literature in Context) PDF

This quantity explores the Russia the place the nice author, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), used to be born and lived. It focuses not just at the Russia depicted in Dostoevsky's works, but additionally at the Russian lifestyles that he and his contemporaries skilled: on social practices and ancient advancements, political and cultural associations, non secular ideals, ideological developments, inventive conventions and literary genres. Chapters by way of best students light up this huge context, provide insights into Dostoevsky's reflections on his age, and view the expression of these reflections in his writing. every one bankruptcy investigates a particular context and indicates how we'd comprehend Dostoevsky on the subject of it. due to the fact that Russia took quite a bit from Western Europe during the imperial interval, the quantity additionally locates the Russian event in the context of Western notion and practices, thereby supplying a multidimensional view of the unfolding drama of Russia as opposed to the West within the 19th century.

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Download E-books Representing East Germany Since Unification: From Colonization to Nostalgia PDF

By Paul Cooke

While the Berlin Wall got here down and the 2 Germanies have been reunited, tradition was once held as much as be one of many keys to nationwide solidarity. paradoxically, although, Cooke argues it's the realm of tradition that, from time to time, has so much basically tested the ongoing divisions among East and West. Taking tradition as extensively outlined, this ebook examines kingdom memorialization, literature, tv, movie, and the web, to map out the frustrating direction of German nationwide identification because it struggles to house the legacy of department. Drawing on postcolonial thought, the writer examines the competition that the East has been colonized by way of the West, taking a look at how such perceptions have pervaded either east and west German tradition. Cooke additionally discusses the advanced phenomenon of nostalgia for East Germany, as obvious within the fresh foreign hit movie solid Bye, Lenin! wealthy intimately and first-hand money owed, this publication provocatively asks how a long way East Germany may be learn at the present time as a postcolonial tradition.

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Download E-books Elective Affinities: Testing Word and Image Relationships. (Word and Image Interactions) PDF

By Catriona MacLeod

This quantity provides the extraordinary diversity of scholarly affinities, methods, and topics that signify modern day note and picture reports. The essays, a variety of papers first provided in 2005 on the 7th foreign convention of the foreign organization of note and snapshot Studies/Association Internationale pour l'Étude des Rapports entre Texte et photo that happened in Philadelphia, are case reports of the various configurations of the textual and the long-lasting. "Elective affinities" - a inspiration initially borrowed by way of Goethe for his 1809 novel of a similar identify from eighteenth-century chemistry - right here refers back to the lively function of the 2 companions within the dating of the pictorial and the verbal. Following the experimental modalities spread out by means of Goethe, the current quantity is split into 3 sections, which discover, respectively, how phrases and pictures can merge in concord, have interaction in conflicts and contestations, and, ultimately, have interaction in an experimental method that self-consciously checks the limits and kin between verbal and visible arts. New views on notice and photograph relationships emerge, during times, nationwide traditions, works, and fabrics as varied as (among many others) an set up via Marcel Duchamp and the handbook accompanying it; the influence of synthetic gentle assets on literature and paintings; nineteenth-century British illustrations of local americans; the modern comedian ebook; a seventeenth-century Italian devotional manuscript uniting textual content, photograph, and track; chinese language physique and function art..

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Download E-books Concrete (Vintage International) PDF

By Thomas Bernhard

Rather than the e-book he’s intended to put in writing, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this darkish and grotesquely humorous account of small woes writ huge, of profound horrors special and rehearsed to the purpose of distraction. We study of Rudolph’s sister, whose support he invitations, then reviles as malevolent meddling; his ‘really exceptional’ condo, which he hates; the suspicious disorder he rigorously nurses; his ten-year-long try and write the best starting sentence; and, ultimately, his break out to the island of Majorca, which seems to be the location of somebody else’s very genuine horror story.
 
A impressive and haunting story of procrastination, failure, and depression, Concrete is an ideal instance of why Thomas Bernhard is remembered as “one of the masters of up to date ecu fiction” (George Steiner).

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Download E-books Temperature Regulation in Humans and Other Mammals PDF

By Claus Jessen

How do mammals have the capacity to hold their physique temperature in the comparable slim diversity in environments as diverse as polar areas and scorching deserts? This complicated textual content describes the morphological gains and physiological mechanisms through which people and different mammals continue their physique temperature inside of a slender diversity regardless of huge diversifications in weather conditions and inner warmth creation. Its 19 chapters care for the physics of warmth trade with the surroundings, and the autonomic and behavioural mechanisms to be had to manage the loss and construction of warmth. The neuronal foundation of temperature legislation and present options of the primary fearful interface among temperature indications generated within the physique and keep an eye on mechanisms are tested intimately. This e-book is of priceless support for undergraduates, postgraduates, lecturers, physicians and scientists.

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Download E-books The Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe (The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe) PDF

By Patrick Parrinder

H.G. Wells was once defined by way of one in every of his ecu critics as a 'seismograph of his age'. he's one of many founding fathers of contemporary technological know-how fiction, and as a novelist, essayist, educationalist and political propagandist his impression has been felt in each ecu kingdom. This number of essays by means of scholarly specialists indicates the numerous and dramatic nature of Wells's reception, together with translations, serious value determinations, novels and movies on Wellsian subject matters, and responses to his personal well-publicized visits to Russia and in different places. The authors chart the serious ideological debate that his writings occasioned, relatively within the inter-war years, and the censorship of his books in Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain. This ebook deals pioneering insights into Wells's contribution to twentieth century eu literature and to fashionable political rules, together with the assumption of ecu union.
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Download E-books A Brief History of Portable Literature (New Directions Paperbook) PDF

A reader’s fictional travel of the artwork and lives of a few of the nice 20th-century Surrealists

An writer (a model of Vila-Matas himself) offers a quick “history” of a mystery society, the Shandies, who're captivated with the concept that of “portable literature.” The society is totally imagined, yet during this rollicking, intellectually playful publication, its individuals contain writers and artists like Marcel Duchamp, Aleister Crowley, Witold Gombrowicz, Federico García Lorca, guy Ray, and Georgia O’Keefe. The Shandies meet secretly in residences, motels, and cafes far and wide Europe to debate what nice literature quite is: short, now not too critical, penetrating the depths of the mysterious. We witness the Shandies having adventures in desk bound submarines, underground caverns, African backwaters, and the cultural capitals of Europe.

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Download E-books From My Life: Poetry and Truth, Parts 1-3 (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 4) PDF

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Covering the interval from his delivery in 1749 to his departure for Weimar in 1775, in Poetry and fact Goethe remembers his adolescence and formative years because the son of well-to-do, middle-class mom and dad, his schooling and literary awakening, early loves, and the production and reception of works from his Sturm und Drang years, similar to The Sorrows of younger Werther, Goetz von Berlichingen, and Urfaust. no longer simply an account of Goethe's personal existence, this ebook additionally explores the impacts on his early years--friends, mentors, recognized personages of his time, highbrow events, towns, and historic events--to draw a realistic photo of his time.

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Download E-books Kafka for the Twenty-First Century (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) PDF

Franz Kafka's literary profession started within the first decade of the 20 th century and produced the most attention-grabbing and influential works in all of recent ecu literature. Now, 100 years later, the worries of a brand new century demand a glance on the demanding situations dealing with Kafka scholarship within the many years forward: What extra will we desire to profit in regards to the context during which Kafka wrote? How does realizing that context have an effect on how we learn his stories?What are the implications of latest severe versions that provide exceptional entry to Kafka's works in manuscript shape? How does our view of Kafka switch the priorities and models of literary scholarship? What components in Kafka's fiction will locate resonance within the old context of a brand new millennium? How will we compose a coherent account of a character with such a lot of contradictory facets? a lot of these questions and extra are addressed by way of the essays during this quantity, written by means of a gaggle of best overseas Kafka students. individuals: Peter Beicken, Iris Bruce, Jacob Burnett, Uta Degner, Doreen Densky, Katja Garloff, Rolf Goebel, Mark Harman, Robert Lemon, Roland Reu, Ritchie Robertson, Walter Sokel, John Zilcosky, Saskia Ziolkowski. Stanley Corngold is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton collage. Ruth V. Gross is Professor of German and Head ofthe division of overseas Languages and Literatures at North Carolina country college.

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