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German Life and Letters, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 297-314, July 2024.Abstract In addition to her literary activities, the writer Helmina von Chézy (1783–1856) was committed to the emancipation of women throughout her life. She took a public stand on women's literary activity, participated in anthology and journal projects and wrote portraits of women in various genres. Among her correspondents was Amalie Struve (1824–62)
Jadwiga Kita‐Huber
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German Life and Letters, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 315-331, July 2024.Abstract In the time preceding, during, and following the revolution in France, Germany, and other European nations in 1848/49, numerous women writers actively participated in the fight for freedom and democracy. However, their involvement manifested in diverse forms.
Renata Dampc‐Jarosz
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German Life and Letters, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 402-422, July 2024.Abstract Louise Aston's work during the 1840s is usually read within the context of the author's life and biography. This paper differs from this reading. Instead, I explore the extent to which a reading fixated on the author's life runs the risk of overlooking the perspective of behaviours and gender roles that Aston portrayed in her fictional worlds.
Andree Michaelis‐König
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'Spectacles within doors': panoramas of London in the 1790s [PDF]
, 2008 Edinburgh University Press allows authors to retain the right to post the definitive version of the contribution, as published by EUP, in the Institutional Repository or in a disciplinary repository one year following publication in print.
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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 47, Issue 1-2, Page 46-76, June 2024.Abstract This article focuses on analysis of the international controversy provoked by the posthumous awarding of the 1972 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade to the Jewish‐Polish physician, pedagogue and writer Janusz Korczak (1878/79–1942). The controversy, which centred around the recipient of the prize money, can be identified as an important ...
Anne Oommen‐Halbach, Thorsten Halling
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Zwischenräumliche Bewegungspraktiken [PDF]
, 2013 Seit dem sogenannten 'spatial turn' hat die Reflexion unterschiedlicher Raumkonzepte in den Kulturwissenschaften Hochkonjunktur. Dabei wird immer wieder auf einen Aspekt verwiesen, der gleichwohl merkwürdig randständig bleibt: der Zwischenraum als ...
Wirth, Uwe
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The German Quarterly, Volume 97, Issue 3, Page 319-336, Summer 2024.Abstract Goethe's Faust I stages an aesthetic experiment akin to the theoretical program of Schiller's Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen: an education of the senses through art, an aesthetic education, in both meanings of the word. The play self‐reflexively presents itself as presenting a new aesthetic: a new sensory experience and a new type
Martha B. Helfer
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W.G. Sebalds babylonische Bibliothek. Kritik an einem heterotopischen Raum der Moderne [PDF]
, 2012 W.G. Sebald’s description of the French Bibliothèque National as a “Babylonian library” in his last book Austerlitz displays a deep cultural pessimism that is comparable to Franz Kafka’s tower-of-Babel-parable "Das Stadtwappen". In both texts, acts of
Zimmermann, Elias
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Walter Benjamin: between academic fashion and the avant-garde [PDF]
, 2012 In the present context of the triumph of capitalism over real socialism, this article points out that, despite their ideological differences, both systems are bound to the same conception of history-as-progress.
Buck-Morss, Susan
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Sola fide. La fe desnuda y la religión capitalista en Walter Benjamin
Revista de Filosofía Universidad IberoamericanaEl siguiente artículo consiste en un comentario al fragmento póstumo de Walter Benjamin llamado “Kapitalismus als Religion”, que destaca por integrar un fragmento anteriormente apartado por los editores, y porque ha sido interpretado en tanto ...
Juan Cruz Aponiuk
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