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A new edition of Novalis' Hymns To the Night, and Spiritual Songs, translated by George MacDonald, with an introduction and notes by Carol Appleby.

Includes the German text.

This edition features a collection of 26 Romantic, European paintings from the late 1770s and early 1800s (the era of Hymns To the Night and Spiritual Songs), which have been interwoven with the poems. Artists include: J.M.W. Turner, Giambattista Tiepolo, Caspar David Friedrich, Philipp Otto Runge, Henry Fuseli, Thomas Cole, J.A.D. Ingres, and Jacques-Louis...

Die Sekundarliteratur uber W.G. Sebald hat in erstaunlicher Schnelle nahezu unuberschaubare Ausmasse angenommen. Allerdings bearbeitet der uberwiegende Teil der Publikationen einen begrenzten Kreis an Themen, die man auf den Komplex Trauma Holocaust Intermedialitat Erinnerung Melancholie reduzieren kann. Zumeist steht dabei der Roman Austerlitz im Fokus der Aufmerksamkeit, wahrend neben den anderen Prosabanden ganze Werkbereiche vernachlassigt werden.

Dazu zahlen das Fruhwerk und die Lyrik, aber auch das beachtliche Korpus literaturkritischer Schriften, sowie die...

"Essential for all poetry collections. . . . Translator Joseph Cadora renders a beautiful new edition complete with commentary on each poem, based on Rilke's letters, numerous biographies, and related works as well as an introduction outlining his approach to the translation." --Library Journal, starred review

" The] renderings of the canonical poems, such as "The Panther," "Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes," and "Archaic Torso of Apollo" (to name a few), are worthwhile additions to the enormous body of Rilke's work already translated by others." --Booklist

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Minnereden bilden die umfangreichste Textgruppe der weltlichen deutschen Literatur des spaten Mittelalters. Die zumeist paargereimten Verstexte sind uberaus wertvolle Quellen fur die Erforschung des vormodernen Diskurses uber die verschiedenen Dimensionen zwischengeschlechtlicher Liebe.

Bisherige Minnereden-Anthologien beschranken sich auf die unkommentierte Wiedergabe historischer Sammlungskontexte. Erstmals steht mit der vorliegenden Edition nun ein reprasentatives Bild des Gattungszusammenhangs zur Verfugung. Die Auswahl der 57 Texte - zusammen ca. 10.600 Verse - orientiert sich...

Human, All Too Human

A Book For Free Spirits

By

Friedrich Nietzsche

Translated by Alexander Harvey

Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits is a book by 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1878.

The book is Nietzsche's first in the aphoristic style that would come to dominate his writings, discussing a variety of concepts in short paragraphs or sayings. Reflecting an admiration of Voltaire as a free thinker, but also a break in his friendship with composer Richard Wagner two years earlier, Nietzsche...

Picking up where his last book, The Jew Car, left off, Fuhmann probes his own susceptibility to ideology's seductions--Nazism, then socialism--and examines their antidote, the goad of Trakl's enigmatic verses. He confronts Trakl's "unlivable life," as his poetry transcends the panaceas of black-and-white ideology, ultimately...