The Ruse of Techne offers a reappraisal of Heidegger's entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards as separate from instrumentality. Non-instrumental activities like authenticity, poetry, and thinking-in short, the ineffectual-are critical for Heidegger as they offer the only path to the truth of being throughout his work. By ......
The Transnational Emergence of Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
Over the course of the long eighteenth century, a network of some fifty women writers, working in French, English, Dutch, and German, staked out a lasting position in the European literary field. These writers were multilingual and lived for many years outside of their countries of origin, translated and borrowed from each others' works, attended ......
Georg Forster (1754-1794) was famous during his lifetime, notorious after his death, and largely forgotten by the later nineteenth century. Remembered today as the young man who sailed around the world with Captain Cook and as one of the leading figures in the revolutionary Republic of Mainz, Forster was also a prolific writer and translator who ......
Georg Forster (1754-1794) was famous during his lifetime, notorious after his death, and largely forgotten by the later nineteenth century. Remembered today as the young man who sailed around the world with Captain Cook and as one of the leading figures in the revolutionary Republic of Mainz, Forster was also a prolific writer and translator who ......
This revision guide has been designed by examiners and experienced teachers to serve as a preparatory resource for students studying WJEC GCSE German through the medium of Welsh and to provide them with useful insights into what to expect in their speaking, listening, reading and writing exams. It is suitable for both Foundation and Higher tier
In Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analyzing four novels by German, British, and American writers. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in ......
Heine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz and the Legacy of 'Den Tannhauser'
A Knight at the Opera examines the remarkable and unknown role that the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) TannhA?user played in Jewish cultural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book analyzes how three of the greatest Jewish thinkers of that era, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Herzl, and I. L. Peretz, used this central myth of ......
Anglo-German Literary Encounters from 1910 to 1960
Building upon his earlier book ""The Death of the German Cousin"", renowned author Peter Edgerly Firchow focuses ""Strange Meetings"" on major modern British writers from Eliot to Auden and explores the development of British conceptions and misconceptions of Germany and Germans from 1910 to 1960.While the book does not aim to be inclusive, it ......
"Black Devil and Iron Angel" examines how the railway was received and represented by a variety of nineteenth-century German and Austrian realist authors including Berthold Auerbach, Theodor Fontane, and Gerhart Hauptmann. This book is a compelling, focused analysis of the point at which mythology and technology merge, signifying the composition ......
