Outsiders: A Study in Life and Letters
Mayer, Hans
ISBN 10: 0262131757 ISBN 13: 9780262131759
Published by Mit Pr, 1982
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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.
he English translation of Outsiders includes a new preface by the author and a foreword by Ihab Hassan.
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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Bibliographic Details
Title: Outsiders: A Study in Life and Letters
Publisher: Mit Pr
Publication Date: 1982
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included