Dowden Stephen (168 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Still shrink wrapped. "Among the Jewish academics and intellectuals expelled from Germany and Austria during the Nazi era were many specialists in German literature. Strangely, their impact on the practice of Germanistik in the United States, England, and Canada has been given little attention. Who were they? Did their vision of German literature and culture differ significantly from that of those who remained in their former homeland? What problems did they face in the American and British academic settings? Above all, how did they help shape German studies in the postwar era? This unique and important symposium, which convened at Brandeis University under the auspices of the its Center for German and European Studies, addresses these and many other questions. Among its distinguished participants--who numbered over thirty in all--are Peter Demetz (Yale, emeritus), Gesa Dane (Gottingen), Amir Eshel (Stanford), Willi Goetschel (Toronto), Barbara Hahn (Princeton), Susanne Klingenstein (MIT), Christoph Konig (Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach), Ritchie Robertson (Oxford), Egon Schwarz (Washington University St. Louis, emeritus), Hinrich Seeba (UC Berkeley), Walter Sokel (University of Virginia, emeritus), Frank Trommler (University of Pennsylvania), and many more. The volume includes not only the (revised) essays of the participants but also prepared responses, and transcripts of the panel discussion and dialogue of the participants with members of the audience." (Publisher). Book.

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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Volume offering a guide to and reassessment of Thomas Mann's famous novel.

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Hardcover & Dust Jacket. Condition: Very good. 321 pages .S.A.: Camden House, 2002. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Still shrink wrapped. "Among the Jewish academics and intellectuals expelled from Germany and Austria during the Nazi era were many specialists in German literature. Strangely, their impact on the practice of Germanistik in the United States, England, and Canada has been given little attention. Who were they? Did their vision of German literature and culture differ significantly from that of those who remained in their former homeland? What problems did they face in the American and British academic settings?"(from blurb).

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Still shrinkwrapped; Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; 9.20 X 6.10 X 1.30 inches; 380 pages.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Volume offering a guide to and reassessment of Thomas Mann's famous novel.Thomas Mann was the first writer since Goethe to attract a large international audience to stories written in German, bringing German fiction into the mainstream of European literature. His second major work, The Magic Mountain (1924), explores the heady intellectual culture of the chaotic and broken Germany that emerged from the First World War, and, along with the earlier Buddenbrooks, earned him a Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. Mann himself considered The Magic Mountain to be his greatest novel, and few in his own day doubted the preeminence of this modernist classic; however, many have argued that the age of literary modernism has passed. If this is so, how might we best understand Mann's masterpiece now? Topics covered in this volume, which aims to provide both a survey of and new research into important aspects of the work, include Mann's comic vision, his homosexuality, his fraught attitude toward Jews, the place of his novel in the landscape of postmodern life, the theme of solitude, music in the novel, and technology. Stephen D. Dowden is Professor of German at Brandeis University. Contributors: David Blumberg, Michael Brenner, Stephen Dowden, Edward Engelberg, Ulker Gökberk, Eugene Goodheart, Joseph P. Lawrence, Karla Schultz, Susan Sontag, Kenneth Weisinger. Stephen D. Dowden is Professor of German at Brandeis University.

Paperback. Condition: New. Volume offering a guide to and reassessment of Thomas Mann's famous novel.Thomas Mann was the first writer since Goethe to attract a large international audience to stories written in German, bringing German fiction into the mainstream of European literature. His second major work, The Magic Mountain (1924), explores the heady intellectual culture of the chaotic and broken Germany that emerged from the First World War, and, along with the earlier Buddenbrooks, earned him a Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. Mann himself considered The Magic Mountain to be his greatest novel, and few in his own day doubted the preeminence of this modernist classic; however, many have argued that the age of literary modernism has passed. If this is so, how might we best understand Mann's masterpiece now? Topics covered in this volume, which aims to provide both a survey of and new research into important aspects of the work, include Mann's comic vision, his homosexuality, his fraught attitude toward Jews, the place of his novel in the landscape of postmodern life, the theme of solitude, music in the novel, and technology. Stephen D. Dowden is Professor of German at Brandeis University. Contributors: David Blumberg, Michael Brenner, Stephen Dowden, Edward Engelberg, Ulker Gökberk, Eugene Goodheart, Joseph P. Lawrence, Karla Schultz, Susan Sontag, Kenneth Weisinger. Stephen D. Dowden is Professor of German at Brandeis University.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Portraits With Tissue Guards (illustrator). Reprint. Seven Volumes Bound In Matching Quarter Tan Calf, Top Edges Gilt, Marbled Boards And Matching Marbled Endpapers, Spines Elaborately Gilt In All Compartments, Red And Black Morocco Spine Labels. 1895 Date On Title Pages Well Made Books, Good Quality Paper And With Tissue Guards To The Frontispiece Portraits In All 21 Volumes. All Volumes With Only Light Rubbing, A Few Beginning To Fray At Top And Bottom Edges, Joints Cracked Or Starting On All Volumes, One Spine Split Away At Top Half, The Detached Half Laid In Loosely And Repairable, One Spine Coming Loose Along Front Joint But Can Be Re-Glued Without Bindery Work; All Gilt Brilliant, Morocco Spine Labels Clean And Bright. International Postage At Usps Priority Mail Box Rate.

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Dowden, Stephen D., ed. A companion to Thomas Mann's Magic mountain. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1999, xix, 250pp., very good dust-jacket, light pencil lines in margins on about 20 scattered pages, easily eraseable, done in a light hand, otherwise very good black cloth. Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture - CONTENTS: Transfiguration in silence : Hans Castorp's uncanny awakening / Joseph P. Lawrence -- Mann's ethical style / Stephen D. Dowden -- Thomas Mann's comic spirit / Eugene Goodheart -- War as mentor : Thomas Mann and Germanness / Ulker Gokberk -- From muted chords to maddening cacophony : music in The magic mountain -- (cont.) Ambiguous solitude : Hans Castorp's Sturm und Drang nach Osten / Edward Engelberg -- Mortal illness on the magic mountain / Stephen C. Meredith -- Beyond Naphta : Thomas Mann's Jews and German-Jewish writing / Michael Brenner -- Technology as desire : x-ray vision in The magic mountain / Karla Schultz -- Distant oil rigs and other erections / Kenneth Weisinger -- Pilgrimage / Susan Sontag. 9781571131508 ISBN 1571131507.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 270 pages. 9.00x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 264 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.55 inches. In Stock.

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Hardback. Condition: New. Survey of the criticism devoted to Kafka's The Castle, his final novel.Kafka's final, unfinished novel, The Castle, remains one of the most celebrated yet most impenetrable masterpieces of modernist fiction, and a focus of literary criticsm and theory. In this chronological survey of the critical attention it has attracted, both academic and non-academic, Professor Dowden emphasises the acts of critical imagination which have shaped our image and understanding of Kafka and the novel. He explores the historical and cultural milieus of criticism, from the Weimar Era of Max Brod and Walter Benjamin to Lionel Trilling's Cold War to postmodern multiculturalism and 'cultural studies', showing how and why The Castle has aroused strong opinionsin each generation of criticism; he also accounts for those moments in which the novel escapes from an historically anchored understanding into the realm of the universal.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!