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Synopsis
This book brings together recent essays by the highly regarded German literary critic, Hans Mayer. They are studies in alienation organized into three main types of outsiders—women, homosexuals, and Jews—as depicted in literature from Shakespeare and Marlowe to the present.
The women in Outsiders are Joan of Arc (as presented by Schiller, Shaw, Brecht, and Vishnevskii), Judith and Delilah (as heroine and vamp), George Eliot and George Sand, Lulu, and contemporary feminists. The homosexuals include protagonists of Marlowe's plays, Winckelmann, Platen, Verlaine and Rimbaud, Ludwig of Bavaria, Tchaikovsky, and the personas of Wilde, Gide, and Genet as seen in their lives and in their novels. The Jews range beyond stereotype from Shylock to Disraeli, the Rothschilds, Heine, Proust's Bloch and Joyce's Bloom, and Trotsky.
This English translation of Outsiders includes a new preface by the author.
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About the Author
Hans Mayer, Professor of German at the University of Tübingen, has also published major studies of Bochner, Wagner, Thomas Mann, Hesse, and Brecht.
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Text: English, German (translation)
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Outsiders: A Study in Life and Letters
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The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, 1984
ISBN 10: 0262630966
ISBN 13: 9780262630962
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Outsiders: A Study in Life and Letters. Translated by Denis M. Sweet.
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kart. / Paperback. Condition: Gut. XI, 434 Seiten / p. Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - Slightly rubbed, otherwise clean copy - Contents -- Foreword by Ihab Hassan -- What Are Outsiders? A Note for the -- American Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Premises: Outsiders and Enlightenment -- Judith and Delilah -- The Second Sex and Its Outsiders -- The Scandal of Joan of Arc: Schiller, Shaw, Brecht, Vishnevskii -- Judith as Bourgeois Heroine -- The Bourgeois Way of Life as an Alternative Excursus: Otto Weininger, Sex and Character Delilah as Bourgeois Vamp -- Women's Liberation and Norman Mailer -- The World of Images of Women -- Sodom -- A Chronicle of Murders and Scandal -- Christopher Marlowe and King Edward II of England -- Winckelmann's Death and the Discovery of a Doubl Life -- The Conflict between Heine and Platen -- Alternatives in the Nineteenth Century -- Concerning the Typology of Homosexual Literature -- The Alternatives of Klaus Mann and Maurice Sachs -- > The Turning Point of Jean Genet -- Shylock -- From Ahasuerus to Shylock -- The Jew of Malta and the Jew of Venice -- The Wise Nathan and the Bandit Spiegelberg: The Antinomies of Jewish Emancipation in Germany -- The Bourgeois Shylock -- Jewish Figures in the Bourgeois Novel -- Jewish Self-Hate -- Comrade Shylock -- Hatred of Jews after Auschwitz -- Open Ending -- Notes -- Index. ISBN 9780262630962 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 587. Seller Inventory # 1225507
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