| Description |
xxxi, 360 pages ; 24 cm |
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Meridian, crossing aesthetics |
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Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
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| Contents |
1. Rilke's Duino elegies / Hannah Arendt and Gunther Stern -- 2. Review of Hans Weil, The emergence of the German principle of "Bildung" -- 3. Friedrich Von Gentz : on the 100th anniversary of his death, June 9, 1932 -- 4. Adam Muller - renaissance? -- 5. Berlin Salon -- 6. Review of Hans Hagen, Rilke's revisions -- 7. Review of Kate Hamburger, Thomas Mann and romanticism -- 8. Stefan Zweig : Jews in the world of yesterday -- 9. The Jew as pariah : a hidden tradition -- 10. Nightmare and flight -- 11. Franz Kafka, appreciated anew -- 12. Great friend of reality : Adalbert Stifter -- 13. French existentialism -- 14. No longer and not yet -- 15. Proof positive -- 16. The streets of Berlin -- 17. The too ambitious reporter -- 18. Beyond personal frustration : the poetry of Bertolt Brecht -- 19. Preface to Bernard Lazare, Job's dungheap -- 20. The achievement of Hermann Broch -- 21. Between vice and crime (on Proust) -- 22. The imperialist character (on Kipling) -- 23. The permanence of the world and the work of art -- 24. Culture and politics -- 25. Foreword to Carl Heidenreich's exhibition catalog -- 26. The social question (on Melville and Dostoevski) -- 27. Review of Nathalie Sarraute, The golden fruits -- 28. What is permitted to Jove ... reflections on the poet Bertolt Brecht and his relation to politics -- 29. Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965 -- 30. Isak Dinesen, 1885-1962 -- 31. Notes on Dostoevsky's Possessed -- 32. Emerson address -- 33. Afterword to Robert Gilbert, No donkey has lost me while galloping -- 34. Remembering Wystan H. Auden, who died in the night of the twenty-eighth of September, 1973 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-350) and index |
| Subject |
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 -- Translations into English.
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German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.
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| Author |
Gottlieb, Susannah Young-ah.
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| LC no. |
2006026914 |
| ISBN |
080474498X cloth alkaline paper |
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9780804744980 cloth alkaline paper |
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0804744998 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780804744997 paperback alkaline paper |
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