Outsiders: A Study in Life and Letters

Mayer, Hans; translated by Denis M. Sweet

ISBN 10: 0262131757 / ISBN 13: 9780262131759

Published by MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1982

About this Item

Minor chips, closed tears, and rubbing wear to the dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Outsiders: A Study in Life and Letters
• Publisher: MIT, Cambridge, MA
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262131757
• ISBN 13: 9780262131759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Book fine, Dust jacket fine.
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Book

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Synopsis

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.