1912 sucht der junge sozialistische juuuml;dische Wiener Dozent Leo Spitzer (1887-1960) Kontakt zum alten charismatischen, aber konservativen Professor Hugo Schuchardt (1842-1927), woraus sich eine fur beide Beteiligten intensive Korrespondenz bis ins hohe Alter des Letzteren ergibt. Obwohl Gegenbriefe Schuchardts nicht erhalten sind, geben doch die hier veroouml;ffentlichten nahezu 250 Schreiben Leo Spitzers ein auch stilistisch eindrucksvolles Zeugnis von Welten, die aufeinander prallen, aber - nicht ohne Skepsis - wieder zueinander finden. In ihnen offenbaren sich eine Welt und ein...
1912 sucht der junge sozialistische juuuml;dische Wiener Dozent Leo Spitzer (1887-1960) Kontakt zum alten charismatischen, aber konservativen Professo...
In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the "Vienna of the East" under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War II--yet an idealized version lives on, suspended in the memories of its dispersed people and passed down to their children like a precious and haunted heirloom. In this original blend of history and communal memoir, Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer chronicle the city's survival in personal, familial, and cultural memory. They find evidence of a cosmopolitan...
In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the "Vienna of the East" under the Habsburg ...
In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the Vienna of the East under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War IIyet an idealized version lives on, suspended in the memories of its dispersed people and passed down to their children like a precious and haunted heirloom. In this original blend of history and communal memoir, Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer chronicle the city's survival in personal, familial, and cultural memory. They find evidence of a cosmopolitan culture...
In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the Vienna of the East under the Habsburg em...
Spitzer discusses the method he evolved for bringing together the two disciplines, linguistics and literary history, and examines the work of Cervantes, Racine, Diderot, and Claudel in the light of this theory.
Originally published in 1967.
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Spitzer discusses the method he evolved for bringing together the two disciplines, linguistics and literary history, and examines the work of Cerva...
The late Leo Spitzer enjoyed a reputation as one of the twentieth century's outstanding philologists and linguists. His writings in the field of the romance languages and of comparative philology have been always stimulating, often controversial. This collection presents his essays in English and American literature which appeared in various journals and other publications during his lifetime. They range from an explication de texte of three great Middle English poems, through close scrutiny of writings of Donne, Milton, Keats, to a consideration of Edgar Allan Poe and Whitman, and,...
The late Leo Spitzer enjoyed a reputation as one of the twentieth century's outstanding philologists and linguists. His writings in the field of th...
