| Description |
x, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture |
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. A German Gallery of Exile; The Republic of Mainz--The Case of Georg Forster; The Carlsbad Decrees; The July Revolution and the Vormärz; 1848 27; The Antisocialist Law of 1878; "Exile before Exile"--The First World War -- 2. Emulating Exile; Pedigrees, Models, Counterweights; Enduring Patterns, Inhabitable Texts; Embodying Exemplarity; Community, Continuity, Affinity; Exclusive Exemplarity -- 3. Falling into Exile--And Learning to Read Its (Secret) Signs; Writings, Signs, Markers; Falling into Exile--Being or Nonbeing; Learning Exile by Example; Connecting the Dots: Figures of Rupture, Figures of Connection; Illusions of Connectedness; Pain: Laying Bare Exile's Patterns of Meaning; Evolving Exile and the Promise of Weltbürgertum -- 4. What, Then, Is Exile? Toward a Metaphysics of Exile; Light in the Dark: Exiles as Torchbearers; Metaphysics; Geography as Fate: Hans Flesch-Brunningen; Exile as Ultimate Separation; The Perils of Time and Space; Namelessness--Otherness; Exile's Finality -- 5. Beyond the Eternal Jew--Representing Jewish Exile; The Eternal Jew; Claiming One's Own; The Exile's Call for Universalism; Wandering as Fate; Pariah vs. Mr. Cohn; Schlemihl; Job -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"Exile is as old as humanity itself but a radically new fate for the 'novice' exile, who falls into a world about which personal experience can tell him nothing. He does, however, know a great number of stories--myths, legends, allegories, biblical or historical accounts--about exile. The novice's search for a foothold initiates a learning process in which the exilic tradition assumes a major role. The present book captures this learning process: it is a cultural history of exile as it was experienced by thousands of German and Austrian writers and intellectuals who opposed National Socialism: among them Brecht, Canetti, Seghers, Remarque, the Manns, and Ludwig Marcuse. It shows how, slowly, exile becomes a reality through the growing awareness of--and reference to--the exemplary figures of a shared fate. Scores of fellow travelers, from the mythic figures Odysseus and Ahasverus ('The Eternal Jew') to writers such as Heinrich Heine and Victor Hugo, frame the experience of exile, imbuing it with meaning, giving it depth, and even elevating it to a 'High Moral Office.' They frequently make appearances in the narratives of the Nazi-era exiles. The Russian-American exile poet Joseph Brodsky called writers in exile 'retrospective and retroactive beings.' What their retrospective gazes yield as they search for meaning in banishment is at the heart of this book."--Backcover. |
| Subject |
Exiles' writings, German -- History and criticism.
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Exiles' writings, Austrian -- History and criticism.
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Exiles -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Exiles in literature.
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Exiles.
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Exiles' writings, Austrian.
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Exiles' writings, German.
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Germany.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Subject |
West Hartford author.
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| ISBN |
9781571135902 hardcover: acid-free paper |
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1571135901 hardcover: acid-free paper |
| Standard No. |
40023904629 |
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