Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries ghetto fiction played an important part in the expression of a particularly German-Jewish quest for identity. The volume Ghetto Writing takes the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Leopold Kompert's collection of ghetto stories Aus dem Ghetto (1848) to fill a gap and give testimony to an important genre that has been unduly silenced in the literary histories of the post-war period. The volume presents some 15 articles by scholars from Scandinavia, Germany, Great Britain, and Ireland whose contributions offer new analyses of...
Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries ghetto fiction played an important part in the expression of a particularly German-Jewish quest for ident...
Wilhelm Raabe (1831-1910) is one of the major figures of 19th-century German Realist writing, acknowledged as an innovator both stylistically and thematically. But until now there has been little concentration on the international and postcolonial dimensions of Raabe's work - his literary critique of colonialism, his engagement with modernization and globalization, his involvement in 19th century German discourses about America, Africa and Asia, and the links between international and national issues in his writing. In this volume, contributions from many eminent critics address Raabe both as...
Wilhelm Raabe (1831-1910) is one of the major figures of 19th-century German Realist writing, acknowledged as an innovator both stylistically and them...
This volume assembles English translations of three of Wilhelm Raabe's most intriguing narratives. Raabe (1831-1910) was one of the most complex and multi-layered German writers of the second half of the nineteenth century. The three pieces published here for the first time in English are: 'German Moonlight', a tongue-in-cheek study of lunacy and split personality as a quintessentially German condition; 'Hoxter and Corvey', an unsettling reconstruction of civil unrest and anti-Jewish violence in the seventeenth century which advocates tolerance and sobriety in troubled times; and At the Sign...
This volume assembles English translations of three of Wilhelm Raabe's most intriguing narratives. Raabe (1831-1910) was one of the most complex and m...
Die politischen Grenzen des habsburgischen Kronlands Galizien wurden 1772 wie auf dem Reissbrett festgelegt, so dass ein uberaus heterogenes Gebilde entstand. Galizien war seitdem Projektionsflache fur unterschiedlichste politische und kulturelle Vorstellungen, fur identitare Fragen der Zugehorigkeit und der Abgrenzung sowie fur vielfaltige Versuche, die Fremdheit und das Bedrohungspotenzial der ostlichen Region zu fixieren. Der Band rekonstruiert die einschlagigen Diskurse uber Galizien, wie sie zunachst in Statistiken und Reiseberichten des 18. Jahrhunderts fassbar werden. Noch die Texte...
Die politischen Grenzen des habsburgischen Kronlands Galizien wurden 1772 wie auf dem Reissbrett festgelegt, so dass ein uberaus heterogenes Gebilde e...
Salomon Kohn (1825-1904) war im letzten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts einer der bekanntesten judischen Schriftsteller deutscher Sprache. Literaturgeschichtlich liegt seine Leistung darin, dass er den historischen Roman in der Nachfolge Walter Scotts zu dem Genre ausbaute, in dem auf der Hohe des literarischen Zeitgeschmacks genuin judische Belange verhandelt werden konnten: anhand von Beispielen, die der Lokalgeschichte der Prager judischen Gemeinde des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts entnommen sind, entfaltet Kohn eine literarische Diskussion des judischen Selbstverstandnisses in der komplexen...
Salomon Kohn (1825-1904) war im letzten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts einer der bekanntesten judischen Schriftsteller deutscher Sprache. Literaturge...
This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it is published in English and German and comprises research monographs, collections of essays and editions of source texts dealing with German-Jewish literary and cultural history, in particular from the period covering the 18th to 20th centuries.
The closer definition of the term German-Jewish applied to literature and culture is an integral part of its historical development. Primarily, the decisive factor is that from the middle of the 18th century German gradually became the language of choice for Jews,...
This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it is published in English and German and comprises research monographs,...
Austria-Hungary did not aquire a formal empire overseas, but Austrians (sometimes in official or semi-official capacities) engaged in a variety of colonial activities and thereby contributed to the European project of conquest and domination.
Austria-Hungary did not aquire a formal empire overseas, but Austrians (sometimes in official or semi-official capacities) engaged in a variety of col...
It is far too early to determine whether the noughties constitute a distinct period of literary or cultural history with specific characteristics all of their own. It is, nevertheless, timely and illuminating to take a look at individual phenomena that characterize this decade. The articles in this volume discuss certain topical debates (for example surrounding the infamous Austrokoffer literary project, or the debates about pension provision and about religion), they identify emerging trends in Austrian film (the hybridization of genres and the use of the mock-documentary as political...
It is far too early to determine whether the noughties constitute a distinct period of literary or cultural history with specific characteristics all ...
Das Handbuch gibt erstmals einen umfassenden Uberblick uber das Gesamtwerk Wilhelm Raabes (Erzahltexte, Lyrik, Zeichnungen) sowie seine literatur- und kulturgeschichtlichen Kontexte. Hinzu treten biografische, editorische, poetologische und rezeptionsgeschichtliche Grundlagen zum Verstandnis von Raabes Leben und Werk. Als fuhrender Autor des 19. Jahrhunderts war Raabe nicht nur Vertreter des Realismus, sondern stellte die ideologischen, erkenntnistheoretischen und asthetischen Parameter realistischen Erzahlens immer scharfer auf die Probe, um am Jahrhundertende an die Schwelle zur Moderne zu...
Das Handbuch gibt erstmals einen umfassenden Uberblick uber das Gesamtwerk Wilhelm Raabes (Erzahltexte, Lyrik, Zeichnungen) sowie seine literatur- und...
