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  • The Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth-Century German Drama

    War, Death, Morality

    par Professor Brian Murdoch ...
    Death comes to everyone, and in the late-medieval morality play of Everyman the familiar skeleton forces the universalized central figure to come to terms with this. Only his inner resources, in the forms of Good Deeds and Knowledge, ensure that he repents and is redeemed. Three important twentieth-century German plays echo Everyman - Toller's Hinkemann, Borchert's The Man Outside, and Frisch's ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Memory and Memorials

    The Commemorative Century

    par William Kidd, Brian Murdoch ...
    The twentieth century, perhaps more than any other, was shaped by war and conflict. In particular, the two world wars have had a profound influence on the development of world history, especially in western Europe. The aim of Memory and Memorials, however, is not to seek the effects war has had on the twentieth century, but rather to explore how societies chose to remember wars and manipulate this ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • German Literature and the First World War: The Anti-War Tradition

    Collected Essays by Brian Murdoch

    par Brian Murdoch ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in First World War History
    The period immediately following the end of the First World War witnessed an outpouring of artistic and literary creativity, as those that had lived through the war years sought to communicate their experiences and opinions. In Germany this manifested itself broadly into two camps, one condemning the war outright; the other condemning the defeat. Of the former, Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on ... En savoir plus

    $96.18 CAD

  • Fighting Songs and Warring Words

    Popular Lyrics of Two World Wars

    par Brian Murdoch ...
    The accepted canon of war poetry usually includes only those underlining patriotic or nationalistic views. This study opens up the view of war poetry with the inclusion of such material as Nazi poetry and song, and the poetry of the atomic bomb. ... En savoir plus

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Dedalus Book of Medieval Literature

    The Grin of the Gargoyle

    par Brian Murdoch ...
    Brian Murdoch provides an alternative view of the Middle Ages, showing the anarchy and decadence which lurked below the surface of a devout and conformist society. The grinning gargoyle, which mocked the solemnity of Gothic cathedrals, symbolises the violence, depravity and irreverence inherent in man which could not be suppressed by the church.
Texts translated from the prose, chronicles and ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Rites of Spring

    The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age

    par Modris Eksteins ...
    Named "One of the 100 best books ever published in Canada" (The Literary Review of Canada), Rites of Springis a brilliant and captivating work of cultural history from the internationally acclaimed scholar and writer Modris Eksteins.Dazzling in its originality, witty and perceptive in unearthing patterns of behavior that history has erased, Rites of Spring probes the origins, the impact and the ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

    The Great War in European Cultural History

    par Jay Winter ...
    Collections series Canto Classics
    Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the European ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Edge of Irony

    Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

    par Marjorie Perloff ...
    Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of the geographical entity into which they had been born: in 1918, the empire was dissolved overnight, leaving Austria a small, fragile republic that ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Rilke

    Modifié par Karen Leeder, Robert Vilain ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Often regarded as the greatest German poet of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) remains one of the most influential figures of European modernism. In this Companion, leading scholars offer informative and thought-provoking essays on his life and social context, his correspondence, all his major collections of poetry including most famously the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Saturn's Moons

    A W.G Sebald Handbook

    par Jo Catling, Richard Hibbitt ...
    The German novelist, poet and critic W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) has in recent years attracted a phenomenal international following for his evocative prose works such as Die Ausgewanderten (The Emigrants), Die Ringe des Saturn (The Rings of Saturn) and Austerlitz, spellbinding elegiac narratives which, through their deliberate blurring of genre boundaries and provocative use of photography, explore ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Twentieth-Century German Literature

    Modifié par Raymond Furness, Malcolm Humble ...
    Containing entries on over four hundred authors of fiction, poetry and drama from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, this invaluable work of reference presents material of a range and depth that no other book on the subject in English attains. For the second edition, the entries have been updated to include the most recent works of German literature. A number of new entries have been added, dealing ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann

    Modifié par Ritchie Robertson ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. In addition to introductory chapters on all the main works of fiction, the essays and diaries, there are four chapters examining Mann's oeuvre in relation to major themes. These thematic explorations include his position as a realistic writer concerned with the history of his own ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD