by Thomas Kent Edlund (1996)
The National Socialist government of Germany, in May of 1939, conducted a census of the nation's "non-Teutonic" peoples. Plans for this undertaking stemmed from a 1936 decision intended to identify those "ethnic subversives" who threatened Hitler's fascist state. Authority for this activity was vested with the Reichssippenamt, an historically respectable government department dating from Bismarckian times.
Marianne Berger Woods
"This annotated bibliography includes all period novels with a New Woman protagonist and all period articles with the New Woman as primary subject, along with several poems, cartoons, advertisements, and artworks. Because the New Woman was also the target of many derisive articles, poems, and visual works, these critical response pieces are included as well"--Provided by publisher.
David William Foster
Mexico has a rich literary heritage that extends back over centuries to the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. This major new reference work surveys more than five hundred years of Mexican literature from a sociocultural perspective. More than merely a catalog of names and titles, it examines in detail the literary phenomena that constitute Mexico's most significant and original contributions to literature. Recognizing that no one scholar can authoritatively cover so much territory, David William Foster has assembled a group of specialists, some of them younger scholars who write from the most current and emerging trends in Latin American and Mexican literary scholarship. The topics they discuss include pre-Columbian indigenous writing (Joanna O'Connell), Colonial literature (Lee H. Dowling), Romanticism (Margarita Vargas), nineteenth-century prose fiction (Mario Martín Flores), Modernism (Bart L. Lewis), major twentieth-century genres (narrative, Lanin A. Gyurko poetry, Adriana García theater, Kirsten F. Nigro), the essay (Martin S. Stabb), literary criticism (Daniel Altamiranda), and literary journals (Luis Peña). Each essay offers detailed analysis of significant issues and major texts and includes an annotated bibliography of important critical sources and reference works.
Siegbert Wolf
Als Literaturkritiker, Übersetzer, Roman- und Novellenautor, Vortragsredner und Essayist, als nichtmarxistischer libertärer Sozialist und jüdischer Kulturphilosoph genoss Gustav Landauer (1870–1919) hohes Ansehen. Er agierte als Sprach- und Kulturkritiker, sowie Initiator zahlreicher Projekte. Was Gustav Landauer vor allem antrieb, betraf die Suche nach einer menschlichen Gemeinschaft freier und gleichberechtigter Menschen in einer dezentralen und föderal vernetzten Welt. Ob in seiner umfassenden Rezeption der Dramen William Shakesspeares sowie der Französischen Revolution von 1789 oder in seinen zahlreichen Vorträgen (deutsche und internationale Literaturgeschichte, Regeneration des Judentums, Antimilitarismus) – stets wird seine Sehnsucht nach einem selbstbestimmten Miteinander deutlich. Landauers noch heute lesenswerte Bücher und Essays vermitteln das sozialgeschichtliche Panorama einer bewegten Zeit am Ausgang des 19. Jahrhunderts und in den ersten beiden Jahrzehnten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine Wirkung motivierte so unterschiedliche Zeitgenossen wie Martin Buber, Erich Mühsam, Margarete Susman, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Georg Kaiser und Ernst Toller. (Quelle: Edition AV)
John A. Lane
"The Plantin-Moretus Museum has one of the world's richest collections of type specimens, many surviving nowhere else. They include types by Garamont, Granjon, Van den Keere, Briot, Van Dyck, Kis, Fournier, Rosart, Gille, Didot and many other masters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Since the Plantin-Moretus printing office acquired most of the specimens when new, moreover, the collection as a whole tells a story in a way that collections assembled piecemeal in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries cannot. Finally, the Museum's archives help to document the origins of many specimens." "This first detailed catalogue of the Museum's specimens reports the styles and sizes of type shown, describes the structures and paper stocks, notes relations with other specimens in the collection and elsewhere, and provides references to literature on many of the individual types shown." "Preliminary notes on the type founders and printers who issued the specimens include chronologies of the foundries and information on the origins of their materials, sometimes supplemented with information about the history of the firms and the genealogy of the founders. Nearly all of the nineteen specimens illustrated at their original size appear here for the first time, and extensive indexes make this book a powerful reference tool for type specimen enthusiast and printing historians."--BOOK JACKET.