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A Cultural Citizen of the World

Sigmund Freud's Knowledge and Use of British and American Writings

By: Siegbert Salomon Prawer

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A Cultural Citizen of the World

Sigmund Freud's Knowledge and Use of British and American Writings

By: Siegbert Salomon Prawer

Based on an intensive study of the original German text of Freud's writings, letters and journals, S. S. Prawer's new book is the first to make a full and systematic map of Freud's use of English literature. The great psychoanalyst has long been acclaimed as a polymath, as a practical doctor who was also a theoretician, as a writer of non-fiction which was also a counterpoint to the great novels of the early twentieth century, and as an essayist who, like Montaigne, absorbed all of the cultural world around him. Freud was fascinated by writings from many nations and languages, and his use of English shows the great range of his reading: from Shakespeare to Bernard Shaw, Henry Fielding to George Eliot, Mark Twain to Thornton Wilder; from scientific works by Maxwell and Darwin to the economics of Adam Smith, Malthus and Keynes, and from psychology and anthropology to the origins of religion. Though Freud's genius was unique, his sense of being a citizen of a world far wider than Vienna was not, and it can tell us much about the exchange of ideas across national and linguistic frontiers. Though he was a reader par excellence, he was also a case study in how world literature can be used by men and women who are not professional literary scholars or critics -- and of how much it can come to mean to them, and for their sense of who they are.

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MHRA

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190654042X

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9781906540425

Israel at Vanity Fair

Jews and Judaism in the Writings of W.M. Thackeray

By: Siegbert Salomon Prawer

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Jews and Judaism in the Writings of W.M. Thackeray

By: Siegbert Salomon Prawer

The first complete study of this important Victorian novelist's depiction of, and involvement with, Jews and Judaism in the context of his life, developing art, and changing opinions and the social history of European Jewry.

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466

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BRILL

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9004094032

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9789004094031

Between Two Worlds

The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933

By: Siegbert Salomon Prawer,S. S. Prawer

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Between Two Worlds

The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933

By: Siegbert Salomon Prawer,S. S. Prawer

Jews have been well represented in the cinema industry from the beginning of the film era: behind the screen, as producers, distributors, directors, script-writers, composers, set designers; and on the screen, as Jewish actors and as named Jewish characters in the film's plot. Some of these characters are fictional; others, ranging from Rabbi Loew of Prague to Ferdinand Lassalle and Alfred Dreyfus, have a historic original. This book examines how a variety of German and Austrian films treat aspects of Jewish life, at home and in the synagogue, and Jewish interaction with fellow Jews in different cultural environments; conflicts and accommodations between Jews and non-Jews at various times, ranging from the medieval to the contemporary. The author, one of the best known scholars in film history, theory and criticism, offers the reader a rich panorama of the many Jews involved in all spheres of the cinema and who, as the author reminds us repeatedly, together with their non-Jewish contemporaries, created a great industry and new forms of art. S. S. Prawer is a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, the British Academy, and the German Academy of Language and Literature.

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244

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Berghahn Books

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1845453034

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9781845453039

Caligari's Children

The Film as Tale of Terror

By: Siegbert Salomon Prawer

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Caligari's Children

The Film as Tale of Terror

By: Siegbert Salomon Prawer

”The terror film, with puzzling, disturbing, multivalent images, often leads us into regions that are strange, disorienting, yet somehow familiar; and for all the crude and melodramatic and morally questionable forms in which we so often encounter it, it does speak of something true and important, and offers us encounters with hidden aspects of ourselves and our world.” So writes S. S. Prawer in his concise and penetrating study of the horror film—from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Frankenstein, to Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Omen. After a brief history of the horror genre in film, Prawer offers detailed analyses of specific sequences from various films, such as Murnau’s Nosferatu. He discusses continuities between literary and cinematic tales, and shows what happens when one is transformed into the other. Unpatronizing and scholarly, Prawer draws on a wide range of sources in order to better situate a genre that is both enormously popular with contemporary audiences and of increasing critical importance.

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307

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Da Capo

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030680347X

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9780306803475

Between Two Worlds

The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933

By: Siegbert Salomon Prawer,S. S. Prawer

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The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933

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Frankenstein's Island

England and the English in the Writings of Heinrich Heine

By: S. S. Prawer

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Frankenstein's Island

England and the English in the Writings of Heinrich Heine

By: S. S. Prawer

Professor Prawer's new book documents Heinrich Heine's lifelong involvement with England and the English. It shows him to have been a witty and intelligent observer of English men and women, institutions and politics, and books and journals of his own day; and to have extended his observation backwards into English history and literature of the past in a way that constantly welds the past to the present. The picture which emerges is one shaped by traditional preconceptions, political considerations, social philosophies and aesthetic experiences. The author (who is an authority on Heine) has amassed a vast amount of quotations; many of these passages have never been available in English before. The book will be an important reference work for scholars of nineteenth-century German literature and history; and, since all quotations are rendered in English, it will appeal to general readers interested in verbal caricature and in the changing image of England and the English in Europe.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521110629

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Caligari's Children

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Frankenstein's Island

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