|
Showing 1 - 11 of
11 matches in All Departments
Packed with contemporary dialogue, engaging readings, active
vocabulary, and an assortment of hands-on activities, NEUE
HORIZONTE, 8e skillfully instills both communicative and
grammatical competency using a diversified methodology that adapts
well to a variety of teaching and learning styles. The new edition
combines a vibrant new four-color design with its signature clear
grammar presentations, practical vocabulary lessons, beautiful
prose and poetry, and more. Immersing readers into a complete
language-learning experience, its unique integrated treatment
stresses a balance of communicative competence, cultural awareness,
and mastery of language structures.
Here, Rudiger Safranski sets his sights on the writer considered
the Shakespeare of German literature. Goethe (1749-1832) awakened a
burgeoning German nation and the European continent with his
electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Safranski scoured
Goethe's oeuvre, relying on primary sources as well as his
correspondence with contemporaries and their comments to one
another, to produce an illuminating portrait of the avatar of the
Romantic era. Set against the cultural and political turmoil of
Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries,
Goethe, who intersected with almost every great figure of his age,
is thrillingly re-created here. As Safranski shows, Goethe's
greatest creation, even in comparison to his masterpiece Faust, was
his own life.
A volume of carefully focused essays illuminating the works of one
of the leading 20th-century German writers. Alfred Doeblin
(1878-1957) was one of the great German-Jewish writers of the 20th
century, a major figure in the German avant-garde before the First
World War and a leading intellectual during the Weimar Republic.
Doeblin greatly influenced the history of the German novel: his
best-known work, the best-selling 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz,
has frequently been compared in its use of internal monologue and
literary montage to James Joyce's Ulysses and John Dos Passos's
Manhattan Transfer . Doeblin's oeuvre is by no means limited to
novels, but in this genre, he offered a surprising variety of
narrative techniques, themes, structures, and outlooks. Doeblin's
impact on German writers after the Second World War was
considerable: Gunter Grass, for example, acknowledged him as "my
teacher." And yet, while Alexanderplatz continues to fascinate the
reading public, it has overshadowed therest of Doeblin's immense
oeuvre. This volume of carefully focused essays seeks to do justice
to such important texts as Doeblin's early stories, his numerous
other novels, his political, philosophical, medical,
autobiographical, and religious essays, his experimental plays, and
his writings on the new media of cinema and radio. Contributors:
Heidi Thomann Tewarson, David Dollenmayer, Neil H. Donahue, Roland
Dollinger, Veronika Fuechtner, Gabriele Sander, Erich Kleinschmidt,
Wulf Koepke, Helmut F. Pfanner, Helmuth Kiesel, Klaus
Muller-Salget, Christoph Bartscherer, Wolfgang Dusing. Roland
Dollinger is Associate Professor of German at Sarah Lawrence
College; Wulf Koepke is Professor Emeritus of German at Texas
A&M University; Heidi Thomann Tewarson is Professor of German
at Oberlin College.
Sputnik, the Virgin Mary, a murder... 1957. In the secluded Eastern
European village of Baia Luna, life orbits around church, work,
home and the pub. This is very much the case for fifteen-year-old
Pavel Botev - that is, until the seismic shift of world politics is
felt even in his small community. When Communist party officials
arrive and claim Baia Luna for the Soviet Union, Pavel's
schoolteacher commits grisly suicide. Piecing together her diaries,
Pavel slowly unravels the tragic story of his schoolteacher's
affair with an ambitious party official and, on the very last page,
he finds a single scrawled message - Send him to hell. Naturally,
Pavel promises his dead teacher that he'll do just that. Meanwhile,
crackled radio reports of the US-Soviet space race keep the
villagers occupied and somewhat imaginative; when the statue of the
Virgin Mary is stolen from the chapel, Pavel's grandfather and his
gypsy best friend assume the obvious - that the Russians have
kidnapped it and sent it to the moon. It seems farfetched, but when
the old man mysteriously disappears, it seems that maybe the
Kremlin really has taken an extraordinary interest in an ordinary
place, and only Pavel stands in the way...
Sputnik, the Virgin Mary, a murder... 1957. In the secluded Eastern
European village of Baia Luna, life orbits around church, work,
home and the pub. This is very much the case for fifteen-year-old
Pavel Botev - that is, until the seismic shift of world politics is
felt even in his small community. When Communist party officials
arrive and claim Baia Luna for the Soviet Union, Pavel's
schoolteacher commits grisly suicide. Piecing together her diaries,
Pavel slowly unravels the tragic story of his schoolteacher's
affair with an ambitious party official and, on the very last page,
he finds a single scrawled message - Send him to hell. Naturally,
Pavel promises his dead teacher that he'll do just that. Meanwhile,
crackled radio reports of the US-Soviet space race keep the
villagers occupied and somewhat imaginative; when the statue of the
Virgin Mary is stolen from the chapel, Pavel's grandfather and his
gypsy best friend assume the obvious - that the Russians have
kidnapped it and sent it to the moon. It seems farfetched, but when
the old man mysteriously disappears, it seems that maybe the
Kremlin really has taken an extraordinary interest in an ordinary
place, and only Pavel stands in the way...
|
Abel And Cain (Paperback, Main)
David Dollenmayer, Gregor Von Rezzori, Joachim Neugroschel, Joshua Cohen
1
|
R744
R615
Discovery Miles 6 150
Save R129 (17%)
|
Ships in 9 - 15 working days
|
The art of the Sistine Chapel, decorated by artists who competed
with one another and commissioned by popes who were equally
competitive, is a complex fabric of thematic, chronological, and
artistic references. Four main campaigns were undertaken to
decorate the chapel between 1481 and 1541, and with each new
addition, fundamental themes found increasingly concrete
expression. One theme in particular plays a central role in the
chapel: the legitimization of papal authority, as symbolized by two
keys-one silver, one gold-to the kingdom of heaven. "The Sistine
Chapel: Paradise in Rome" provides a concise, informative account
of the decoration of the Sistine Chapel. In unpacking this complex
history, Ulrich Pfisterer reveals the remarkable unity of the
images in relation to theology, politics, and the intentions of the
artists themselves, who included such household names as
Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Through a study of the main
campaigns to adorn the Sistine Chapel, Pfisterer argues that the
art transformed the chapel into a pathway to the kingdom of God,
legitimising the absolute authority of the popes. First published
in German, the prose comes to life in English in the deft hands of
translator David Dollenmayer.
Sputnik, the Virgin Mary, a murder... 1957. In the secluded Eastern
European village of Baia Luna, life orbits around church, work,
home and the pub. This is very much the case for fifteen-year-old
Pavel Botev - that is, until the seismic shift of world politics is
felt even in his small community. When Communist party officials
arrive and claim Baia Luna for the Soviet Union, Pavel's
schoolteacher commits grisly suicide. Piecing together her diaries,
Pavel slowly unravels the tragic story of his schoolteacher's
affair with an ambitious party official and, on the very last page,
he finds a single scrawled message - Send him to hell. Naturally,
Pavel promises his dead teacher that he'll do just that. Meanwhile,
crackled radio reports of the US-Soviet space race keep the
villagers occupied and somewhat imaginative; when the statue of the
Virgin Mary is stolen from the chapel, Pavel's grandfather and his
gypsy best friend assume the obvious - that the Russians have
kidnapped it and sent it to the moon. It seems farfetched, but when
the old man mysteriously disappears, it seems that maybe the
Kremlin really has taken an extraordinary interest in an ordinary
place, and only Pavel stands in the way...
Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was one of America's first celebrity
intellectuals. In the first biography to be published since her
death, Daniel Schreiber portrays a glamorous woman full of
contradictions and inner conflicts, whose life mirrored the
cultural upheavals of her time.
While known primarily as a cultural critic and novelist, Sontag
was also a filmmaker, stage director, and dramatist. It was her
status as a pop icon that was unusual for an American intellectual:
she was filmed by Andy Warhol and Woody Allen, photographed by
Annie Leibovitz and Diane Arbus, and her likeness adorned
advertisements for Absolut vodka. Drawing on newly available
sources, including interviews with Nadine Gordimer, Robert Wilson,
and Sontag's son, David Rieff, as well as on myriad interviews
given by Sontag and her extensive correspondence with her friend
and publisher Roger Straus, Schreiber explores the roles that
Sontag played in influencing American public cultural and political
conversations.
Translated from the original Kindheit, written between 1958 and
1980, and published in German in 2003, David Dollenmayer's edition
makes this remarkable story available to a much-deserved wider
audience. Moses Rosenkranz came from impoverished roots in the
rural Bucovina and gained acclaim for his poetry only late in life.
He became an intimate of poet Paul Celan, with whom he was interned
in a fascist work camp during World War II. With his richly
detailed recollections, a colorful parade of characters, and a
remarkable eloquence, Rosenkranz recaptures a vanished moment of
cultural history. The author's unvarnished portraits of love,
jealousy, and passion in his large family bring a fresh resonance
to his poetry.
Packed with contemporary dialogue, engaging readings, active
vocabulary, and an assortment of hands-on activities, NEUE
HORIZONTE, 8e skillfully instills both communicative and
grammatical competency using a diversified methodology that adapts
well to a variety of teaching and learning styles. The new edition
combines a vibrant new four-color design with its signature clear
grammar presentations, practical vocabulary lessons, beautiful
prose and poetry, and more. Immersing readers into a complete
language-learning experience, its unique integrated treatment
stresses a balance of communicative competence, cultural awareness,
and mastery of language structures.
|
You may like...
Tenet
John David Washington, Robert Pattinson
Blu-ray disc
(1)
R54
R45
Discovery Miles 450
|