Luftkrieg und Literatur

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Christopher Hailey

"Alban Berg and His World" is a collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism. His allegiance to the austere rigor of Arnold Schoenberg's musical revolution was balanced by a lifelong devotion to the warm sensuousness of Viennese musical tradition and a love of lyric utterance, the emotional intensity of opera, and the expressive nuance of late-Romantic tonal practice. The essays in this collection explore the specific qualities of Berg's brand of musical modernism, and present newly translated letters and documents that illuminate his relationship to the politics and culture of his era. Of particular significance are the first translations of Berg's newly discovered stage work Night (Nocturne), Hermann Watznauer's intimate account of Berg's early years, and the famous memorial issue of the music periodical 23. Contributors consider Berg's fascination with palindromes and mirror images and their relationship to notions of time and identity; the Viennese roots of his distinctive orchestral style; his links to such Viennese contemporaries as Alexander Zemlinsky, Franz Schreker, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold; and his attempts to maneuver through the perilous shoals of gender, race, and fascist politics. The contributors are Antony Beaumont, Leon Botstein, Regina Busch, Nicholas Chadwick, Mark DeVoto, Douglas Jarman, Sherry Lee, and Margaret Notley. Bard Music Festival: Berg and His World Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York August 13-15, 2010 and August 20-22, 2010.

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Scott Spector

"Scott Spector's cultural history maps for the first time the "territories" carved out by German-Jewish intellectuals living in Prague at the dawn of the twentieth century. Spector explores the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which Franz Kafka and his contemporaries flourished, revealing previously unseen relationships between politics and culture. His readings of a broad array of German writers feature the work of Kafka and the so-called Prague circle and encompass journalism, political theory, Zionism, and translation as well as literary program and practice."--BOOK JACKET.

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Gustav Landauer

Gustav Landauer war ein detaillierter Kenner der deutsch-sprachigen und internationalen Literatur. Zugleich verstand er sich immer auch als Literaturvermittler und Entdecker zeitgenössischer Autoren und Autorinnen. Seine zahlreichen, noch heute lesenswerten Essays, Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenartikel, Vorträge, Buch- und Theaterbesprechungen belegen dies deutlich. Landauer erkannte rasch, welche gesellschaftliche Sprengkraft etwa der Vermittlung von Dramen – Tragödien und Komödien – vor allem des englischen Schriftstellers William Shakespeare in Schrift und Vortrag sowie auf der Theaterbühne innewohnt. Viele Autoren – Honoré de Balzac, Rabindranath Tagore, Leo N. Tolstoi, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde – hat er, häufig gemeinsam mit seiner Lebensgefährtin, der Lyrikerin Hedwig Lachmann, durch erstmalige Übersetzungen und umfassende Betrachtungen dem deutschsprachigen Kulturleben zur Verfügung gestellt. (Quelle: Edition AV)

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Sylvie Maurel

This book examines Jean Rhys's writings through the frames of feminist criticism and literary theory, while providing close readings of the texts and of their language. It explores the various forms of feminine dissent at work in Jean Rhys's fiction. Jean Rhys is shown to develop an ethics of subversion through resistance to closure, irony, parody and her daring rewriting of Jane Eyre. Each novel is treated as an aesthetic whole, with substantial references to Jean Rhys's short stories, for a more penetrating insight into her fictional universe.