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Children of Prometheus: Romanticism and Its Legacy

By: Gregory Maertz

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Children of Prometheus: Romanticism and Its Legacy

By: Gregory Maertz

Gregory Maertz has written extensively on Romantic and Modern literature, art, and ideas. In these nine related essays, he investigates the expression of Romanticism in literature, philosophy, and cultural politics from the Renaissance to Modernism. The comparative essays in Part One examine the affinity between the religious logic of Sir Thomas Browne and Søren Kierkegaard; Tolstoy’s enduring attraction to Schopenhauer’s thought; Rilke’s debts to the sculptor Rodin; the identification of an early novel by William Godwin as the chief precursor text to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; and the corresponding literary projects of Osip Mandelstam, Rilke, and David Jones. In Part Two the essays are clustered around the literary activity of writers and philosophers associated with radicalism in Britain and transcendentalism in America: a reconsideration of the life of William Godwin; the central role played by English radicals in the transmission of German literature; Godwin’s innovations in travel fiction; and the crystallization of authorial identity around the influence of Goethe in the work of women writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot.

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3838215915

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Literature and the Cult of Personality

Essays on Goethe and His Influence

By: Gregory Maertz

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Literature and the Cult of Personality

Essays on Goethe and His Influence

By: Gregory Maertz

The construction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an Anglo-American sage and literary icon was the product of a cult of personality that lay at the center of nineteenth-century cultural politics. A reconstruction of the culture wars fought over Goethe’s authority, a previously hidden chapter in the intellectual history of the period ranging from the late eighteenth century to the threshold of Modernism, is the focus of Literature and the Cult of Personality. Marginal as well as canonical writers and critics figured prominently in this process, and Literature and the Cult of Personality offers insight into the mediation activities of Mary Wollstonecraft, Henry Crabb Robinson, the canonical Romantic poets, Thomas Carlyle, Margaret Fuller, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, and others. For women writers and Jacobins, Scots, and Americans, translating Goethe served as an empowering cultural platform that challenges the myth of the self-sufficiency of British literature. Reviewing and translating German authors provided a means of gaining literary enfranchisement and offered a paradigm of literary development according to which 're-writers' become original writers through an apprenticeship of translation and reviewing. In the diverse and fascinating body of critical writing examined in this book, textual exegesis plays an unexpectedly minor role; in its place, a full-blown cult of personality emerges along with a blueprint for the ideology of hero-worship that is more fully mapped out in the cultural and political life of twentieth-century Europe.

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3838269810

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Nostalgia for the Future: Modernism and Heterogeneity in the Visual Arts of Nazi Germany

By: Gregory Maertz

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Nostalgia for the Future: Modernism and Heterogeneity in the Visual Arts of Nazi Germany

By: Gregory Maertz

In the first chapter on the German military’s unlikely function as an incubator of modernist art and in the second chapter on Adolf Hitler’s advocacy for “eugenic” figurative representation embodying nostalgia for lost Aryan racial perfection and the aspiration for the future perfection of the German Volk, Maertz conclusively proves that the Nazi attack on modernism was inconsistent. In further chapters, on the appropriation of Christian iconography in constructing symbols of a Nazi racial utopia and on Baldur von Schirach’s heretical patronage of modernist art as the supreme Nazi Party authority in Vienna, Maertz reveals that sponsorship of modernist artists continued until the collapse of the regime. Also based on previously unexamined evidence, including 10,000 works of art and documents confiscated by the U.S. Army, Maertz’s final chapter reconstructs the anarchic denazification and rehabilitation of German artists during the Allied occupation, which had unforeseen consequences for the postwar art world.

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Literature and the Cult of Personality

Essays on Goethe and His Influence

By: Gregory Maertz

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Acute Care Surgery

By: L.D. Britt,Andrew B. Peitzman,Philip S. Barie,Gregory Jurkovich

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Acute Care Surgery

By: L.D. Britt,Andrew B. Peitzman,Philip S. Barie,Gregory Jurkovich

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Substantially updated with more illustrations and brand-new chapters that reflect the growth and advances in the field, this latest edition of Acute Care Surgery features an editorial board drawn from the ranks of trauma surgery, emergency surgery, and critical care surgery. A comprehensive, updated, and timely overview of this fledgling specialty!

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1496370066

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The War On Our Freedoms

Civil Liberties In An Age Of Terrorism

By: Richard C Leone,Gregory Anrig

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The War On Our Freedoms

Civil Liberties In An Age Of Terrorism

By: Richard C Leone,Gregory Anrig

In each generation, for different reasons, America witnesses a tug of war between the instinct to suppress and the instinct for openness. Today, with the perception of a mortal threat from terrorists, the instinct to suppress is in the ascendancy. Part of the reason for this is the trauma that our country experienced on September 11, 2001, and part of the reason is that the people who are in charge of our government are inclined to use the suppression of information as a management strategy. Rather than waiting ten or fifteen years to point out what's wrong with the current rush to limit civil liberties in the name of "national security," these essays by top thinkers, scholars, journalists, and historians lift the veil on what is happening and why the implications are dangerous and disturbing and ultimately destructive of American values and ideals. Without our even being aware, the judiciary is being undermined, the press is being intimidated, racial profiling is rampant, and our privacy is being invaded. The "war on our freedoms " is just as real as the "war on terror " -- and, in the end, just as dangerous.

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Nostalgia for the Future: Modernism and Heterogeneity in the Visual Arts of Nazi Germany

By: Gregory Maertz

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Children of Prometheus: Romanticism and Its Legacy

Children of Prometheus: Romanticism and Its Legacy

Literature and the Cult of Personality

Literature and the Cult of Personality

Nostalgia for the Future: Modernism and Heterogeneity in the Visual Arts of Nazi Germany

Nostalgia for the Future: Modernism and Heterogeneity in the Visual Arts of Nazi Germany

Literature and the Cult of Personality

Literature and the Cult of Personality

Acute Care Surgery

Acute Care Surgery

The War On Our Freedoms

The War On Our Freedoms

Nostalgia for the Future: Modernism and Heterogeneity in the Visual Arts of Nazi Germany

Nostalgia for the Future: Modernism and Heterogeneity in the Visual Arts of Nazi Germany

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