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Biennial volume of new and innovative essays on German Jewish
Studies, featuring forum sections on Heinrich Heine and Karl Kraus.
Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish
Studies Workshop, which was inaugurated at Duke University in 2009
and is now held at the University of Notre Dame. Together, Nexus
and the Workshop constitute the first ongoing forum in North
America for German Jewish Studies. Nexus publishes innovative
research in German Jewish Studies, introducing new directions,
analyzing the development and definition of the field, and
considering its place vis-a-vis both German Studies and Jewish
Studies. Additionally, it examines issues of pedagogy and
programming at the undergraduate, graduate, and community levels.
Nexus 3 features special forum sections on Heinrich Heine and Karl
Kraus. Renowned Heine scholar Jeffrey Sammons offers a magisterial
critical retrospective on this towering "German Jewish" author,
followed by a response from Ritchie Robertson, while the deanof
Kraus scholarship, Edward Timms, reflects on the challenges and
rewards of translating German Jewish dialect into English. Paul
Reitter provides a thoughtful response. Contributors: Angela
Botelho, Jay Geller, Abigail Gillman, Jeffrey A. Grossman, Leo
Lensing, Georg Mein, Paul Reitter, Ritchie Robertson, Jeffrey L.
Sammons, Egon Schwarz, Edward Timms, Liliane Weissberg, Emma Woelk.
William Collins Donahue is the John J. CavanaughProfessor of the
Humanities at the University of Notre Dame, where he chairs the
Department of German and Russian. Martha B. Helfer is Professor of
German and an affiliate member of the Department of Jewish Studies
at Rutgers, TheState University of New Jersey.
Sixteen new, carefully focused essays on the prose works of one of
the great writers of modernity. Thomas Mann is among the greatest
of German prose writers, and was the first German novelist to reach
a wide English-speaking readership since Goethe. Novels such as
Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and Doktor Faustus attest to his
mastery of subtle, distanced irony, while novellas such as Death in
Venice reveal him at the height of his mastery of language. In
addition to fresh insights about these best-known works of Mann,
this volume treats less-often-discussed works such as Joseph and
His Brothers, Lotte in Weimar, and Felix Krull, as well as his
political writings and essays. Mann himself was a paradox: his role
as family-father was both refuge and facade; his love of Germany
was matched by his contempt for its having embraced Hitler. While
in exile during the Nazi period, he functioned as the prime
representative of the "good" Germany in the fight against fascism,
and he has often been remembered this way in English-speaking
lands. But a new view of Mann is emerging half a century after his
death: a view of him as one of the great writers of a modernity
understood as extending into our 21st century. This volume provides
sixteen essays by American and European specialists. They
demonstrate the relevance of his writings for our time, making
particular use of the biographical material that is now available.
Contributors: Ehrhard Bahr, Manfred Dierks, Werner Frizen, Clayton
Koelb, Helmut Koopmann, Wolfgang Lederer, Hannelore Mundt, Peter
Putz, Jens Rieckmann, Hans Joachim Sandberg, Egon Schwarz, and Hans
Vaget. Herbert Lehnert is Research Professor, and Eva Wessell is
Lecturer in Humanities, both at the University of California,
Irvine.
Proceedings of the Brandeis conference on Jewish Germanists who
fled Nazi Germany and their impact on Anglo-American German
studies. Among the Jewish academics and intellectuals expelled from
Germany and Austria during the Nazi era were many specialists in
German literature. Strangely, their impact on the practice of
Germanistik in the United States, England, and Canada has been
given little attention. Who were they? Did their vision of German
literature and culture differ significantly from that of those who
remained in their former homeland? What problems did they face in
theAmerican and British academic settings? Above all, how did they
help shape German studies in the postwar era? This unique and
important symposium, which convened at Brandeis University under
the auspices of its Center for Germanand European Studies,
addresses these and many other questions. Among its distinguished
participants--who numbered over thirty in all--are Peter Demetz
(Yale, emeritus), Gesa Dane (Goettingen), Amir Eshel (Stanford),
Willi Goetschel (Toronto), Barbara Hahn (Princeton), Susanne
Klingenstein (MIT), Christoph Koenig (Deutsches Literaturarchiv,
Marbach), Ritchie Robertson (Oxford), Egon Schwarz (Washington
University St. Louis, emeritus), Hinrich Seeba (UC Berkeley),
Walter Sokel (University of Virginia, emeritus), Frank Trommler
(University of Pennsylvania), and many more. The volume includes
not only the (revised) essays of the participants but also their
prepared responses, transcripts of the panel discussion, and
dialogue of the participants with members of the audience. Stephen
D. Dowden is professor of German at Brandeis University; Meike G.
Werner is assistant professor of German at Vanderbilt University.
Includes The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, selections from The
Book of Hours (Books 1, 2, and 3), New Poems, Duino Elegies, and
The Sonnets to Orpheus.
This volume brings together plays by three distinctive Viennese
playwrights: Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Johann Nepomuk Nestroy
(1801-62), and Friedrich Hebbel (1813-63). King Ottcar's Rise and
Fall, by Grillparzer, is less a tragedy than an elaborate
celebration of the Hapsburgs. A very different work, Nestroy's The
Talisman is a hilarious satire on the prejudice against redheads in
an Austrian village. In Agnes Bernauer, Hebbel makes a plea for
women's rights against a Hegelian backdrop of social change.
Foreword by Stanley ElkinFlirtations -- La Ronde -- Countess Mitzi,
or The family reunion -- Casanova's homecoming -- Lieutenant
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