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Goethe's Art of Living

By: Katharina Mommsen,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,John Whaley

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Goethe's Art of Living

By: Katharina Mommsen,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,John Whaley

Goethe researcher Katharine Mommsen draws the reader into the fascinating life of Germany's greatest literary genius, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). We discover how ordinary items such as the food we eat or the beverages we drink, and everyday activities like hiking, ice-skating, horseback riding, dancing the waltz, and music-making acquire fresh meaning within Goethe's own pantheistic life philosophy. He directed his wisdom toward keeping body and soul healthy, lively, focused, and strong as a basis for a fuller life - for him it became an essential part of the poet's worldly gospel. This book which is composed around hundreds of excerpts from Goethe's works, correspondences and conversations transcends biography, and shows us the poet's art of living in its richness in wit and wisdom, goodness, and love for humanity.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412003393

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9781412003391

Goethe and the Poets of Arabia

By: Katharina Mommsen

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Goethe and the Poets of Arabia

By: Katharina Mommsen

A comprehensive account of Goethe's relationship to Arabian culture, mediated by his interest in certain poets and texts and by his highly nuanced attitude toward Islam.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1571139087

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9781571139085

Modern Germany

By: Wendell G. Johnson,Katharina Barbe

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Modern Germany

By: Wendell G. Johnson,Katharina Barbe

Modern Germany explores life, society, and history in this comprehensive thematic encyclopedia, spanning such topics as geography, pop culture, the media, and gender. Germany and its capital, Berlin, were the fulcrum of geopolitics in the twentieth century. After the Second World War, Germany was a divided nation. Many German citizens were born and educated and continued to work in eastern Germany (the former German Democratic Republic). This title in the Understanding Modern Nations series seeks to explain contemporary life and traditional culture through thematic encyclopedic entries. Themes in the book cover geography; history; politics and government; economy; religion and thought; social classes and ethnicity; gender, marriage, and sexuality; education; language; etiquette; literature and drama; art and architecture; music and dance; food; leisure and sports; and media and pop culture. Within each theme, short topical entries cover a wide array of key concepts and ideas, from LGBTQ issues in Germany to linguistic dialects to the ever-famous Oktoberfest. Geared specifically toward high school and undergraduate German students, readers interested in history and travel will find this book accessible and engaging.

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463

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440864543

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9781440864544

The Roman Republic of Letters

Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar

By: Katharina Volk

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The Roman Republic of Letters

Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar

By: Katharina Volk

An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic—and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil war In The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion. It was a period of intense cultural flourishing and extreme political unrest—and the agents of each were very often the same people. Members of the senatorial class, including Cicero, Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Cato, Varro, and Nigidius Figulus, contributed greatly to the development of Roman scholarship and engaged in a lively and often polemical exchange with one another. These men were also crucially involved in the tumultuous events that brought about the collapse of the Republic, and they ended up on opposite sides in the civil war between Caesar and Pompey in the early 40s. Volk treats the intellectual and political activities of these “senator scholars” as two sides of the same coin, exploring how scholarship and statesmanship mutually informed one another—and how the acquisition, organization, and diffusion of knowledge was bound up with the question of what it meant to be a Roman in a time of crisis. By revealing how first-century Rome’s remarkable “republic of letters” was connected to the fight over the actual res publica, Volk’s riveting account captures the complexity of this pivotal period.

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400

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Princeton University Press

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0691253951

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9780691253954

Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage

Misogamous Literature from Juvenal to Chaucer

By: Katharina M. Wilson,Elizabeth M. Makowski

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Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage

Misogamous Literature from Juvenal to Chaucer

By: Katharina M. Wilson,Elizabeth M. Makowski

The distrust and hatred of matrimony is a recurring theme in Western literature. In this volume, Wilson and Makowski show that in their repeated imagery, continuous themes, and rhetorical devices, misogamous texts closely parallel and reflect economic and demographic shifts, and theological and legal innovation. Analysis of the literature demonstrates a link between the growing secularism and careerism of the late middle ages and the reduction of womens social status and public options.

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SUNY Press

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0791400638

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9780791400630

Günter Grass's "Danzig-Quintet"

Explorations in the Memory and History of the Nazi Era from "Die Blechtrommel" to "Im Krebsgang"

By: Katharina Hall

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Günter Grass's "Danzig-Quintet"

Explorations in the Memory and History of the Nazi Era from "Die Blechtrommel" to "Im Krebsgang"

By: Katharina Hall

This study extends the long-established notion of Grass's 'Danzig Trilogy' to that of the 'Danzig Quintet' - a literary project of epic proportions, which explores the evolution of Germany's relationship to its Nazi past over a period of forty years. The interlocking stories of Die Blechtrommel (1959), Katz und Maus (1961), Hundejahre (1963), örtlich betäubt (1969) and Im Krebsgang (2002) are mediated by the memory and language of seven first-person narrators. Using the dual conceptualisation of memory developed by Freud and Lacan - 'reliving' versus 'recollecting' the past - the author shows how these narrators' accounts assert the reality of the Holocaust (as well as German wartime suffering), while highlighting the reluctance of ordinary Germans to admit their involvement in the Nazi regime. This delineation of the complex relationship of three generations to their history is deepened by the intertextual nature of the quintet. Using the theory of Peter Brooks, Umberto Eco, Shoshana Felman and Hayden White, the study explores how Grass's textual strategies encourage the reader to view all five works as one overarching narrative, while simultaneously avoiding any literary or historical closure. In the process, the study places each book in the context of its moment of production, and also considers the implications of Grass's belated admission, in August 2006, that he served with the Waffen-SS during the final months of World War Two.

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Peter Lang

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3039109014

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9783039109012

Defining the Nation?

Lebanese Television and Political Elites (1990–2005)

By: Katharina Nötzold

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Defining the Nation?

Lebanese Television and Political Elites (1990–2005)

By: Katharina Nötzold

Katharina Nötzold explores whether and how mass media can contribute to nation-building after civil war. Drawing on the example of Lebanon’s audiovisual media organisations, which are mostly privately owned by politicians, she demonstrates how political elites use television to transmit their visions of post-war society. Lebanon’s nation-building process from 1990 to 2005 was characterized by Syrian dominance over political life. From an extensive content analysis of Lebanese news and interviews with analysts, journalists and managers from all Lebanese TV stations, it emerges that political information on television focused more on divisive experiences than cohesive ones. This has underpinned continued sectarianism in Lebanon, in the media as in society at large, and has impeded nationbuilding.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3865962424

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9783865962423

Goethe's Art of Living

By: Katharina Mommsen,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,John Whaley

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By: Katharina Mommsen,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,John Whaley

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Trafford Publishing

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Goethe and the Poets of Arabia

By: Katharina Mommsen

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Goethe and the Poets of Arabia

By: Katharina Mommsen

A comprehensive account of Goethe's relationship to Arabian culture, mediated by his interest in certain poets and texts and by his highly nuanced attitude toward Islam.

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Book's by Katharina Mommsen

Goethe's Art of Living

Goethe's Art of Living

Goethe and the Poets of Arabia

Goethe and the Poets of Arabia

Modern Germany

Modern Germany

The Roman Republic of Letters

The Roman Republic of Letters

Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage

Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage

Günter Grass's "Danzig-Quintet"

Günter Grass's "Danzig-Quintet"

Defining the Nation?

Defining the Nation?

Goethe's Art of Living

Goethe's Art of Living

Goethe and the Poets of Arabia

Goethe and the Poets of Arabia

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