Complete Plays, Lenz, and Other Writings

Author: Georg Buchner
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0140445862
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Collected in this volume are powerful dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast now recognized as a major figure of world literature. Also included are selections from Büchner's letters and philosophical writings.

Complete Plays, Lenz and Other Writings

Author: Georg Buchner
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0140445862
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
Collected in this volume are dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast. Also included are selections from Buchner's letters and philosophical writings.

Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850

Author: Christopher John Murray
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135455791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1303

Book Description
In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate reference source on the literature, thought, music, and art of the period, demonstrating the rich interplay of international influences and cross-currents at work; and to explore the many issues raised by the very concepts of Romantic and Romanticism.

Encyclopedia of German Literature

Author: Matthias Konzett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135941297
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 3105

Book Description
Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.

The Encarta Book of Quotations

Author: Bill Swainson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312230005
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1360

Book Description
Here are 25,000 quotations drawn from the history, politics, literature, religions, science, and popular culture of the world--ranging from the earliest Chinese sages through Shakespeare to the present day.

Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L

Author: O. Classe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781884964367
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 930

Book Description

Translation and Interpretation

Author: Raul Calzoni
Publisher: V&R Unipress
ISBN: 3847014730
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
A volume in honour of Angela Locatelli The book explores the significance of literary translation and interpretation, in the widest sense of terms, as multiple processes of meaning and cultural transfer, by investigating how and why literature can be considered as a repository and a disseminator of knowledge and values. Featuring essays by a number of scholars focusing on a wide range of literary and critical texts of different nations and cultures and encompassing the last three centuries, this book intends to offer a contribution to the study of translation and interpretation as literary processes of cultural and epistemic dissemination of knowledge from both a theoretical and a practical perspective.

Time and History

Author: Jörn Rüsen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857450417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
This series aims at bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory as well as western and non-western concepts, for which this volume offers a particularly good example. It explores cultural differences in conceptualizing time and history in countries such as China, Japan, and India as well as pre-modern societies.

Contemporary Physics Plays

Author: Jenni G. Halpin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319751484
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
This book analyzes recent physics plays, arguing that their enaction of concepts from the sciences they discuss alters the nature of the decisions made by the characters, changing the ethical judgements that might be cast on them. Recent physics plays regularly alter the shape of space-time itself, drawing together disparate moments, reversing the flow of time, creating apparent contradictions, and iterating scenes for multiple branches of counterfactual history. With these changes both causality and responsibility shift, variously. The roles of iconic scientists, such as Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg, are interrogated for their dramatic value, placing history and dramatic license in tension. Cold War strategies and the limits of espionage highlight the emphatically personal involvement of ordinary individuals. This study is vital reading for those interested in physics plays and the relationship between the sciences and the humanities.

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141931663
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including ON THE INTRODUCTION OF NARCISSISM; REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING THROUGH; BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE; THE EGO AND THE ID and INHIBITION, SYMPTOM AND FEAR.