The Intersection of the Material and Poetic Economy in Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben and Adalbert Stifter's Nachsommer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Intersection of the Material and Poetic Economy in Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben and Adalbert Stifter's Nachsommer write by Anna H. Helm Kurz. This book was released on 2002. The Intersection of the Material and Poetic Economy in Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben and Adalbert Stifter's Nachsommer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Intersection of Material and Poetic Economy
The Intersection of Material and Poetic Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Intersection of Material and Poetic Economy write by Anna Helm. This book was released on 2009. The Intersection of Material and Poetic Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work explores the intersection of the material and poetic economies in Soll und Haben and Der Nachsommer. It demonstrates how the main poetical strategies of the two novels, dichotomization (Soll und Haben) and total economization (Der Nachsommer), are defined by economic themes, structures, and forms. The «economopoetics» of the novels, i.e. the multitude of connections between economics and aesthetics, pervades the texts on three different levels: as content, as representational model, and as literary strategy. Although very different in their treatment of topics relating to business and economics, both novels are driven by narratives parsed with economic expression. The diverging patterns of economopoetics support central commentaries on their underlying realist aesthetics. One important finding is that, in spite of money's apparent absence from the core content of some literary texts, economic relations are inherent in the narrative structure of those texts. The book shows that economopoetics is relevant not only to any extant literature which attempts explicitly to thematize business and economics (such as Soll und Haben), but also to that which does not (such as Der Nachsommer). Economic organizing principles are pervasive signatures of the novel's aesthetic.
At the Limit of the Obscene
At the Limit of the Obscene - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook At the Limit of the Obscene write by Erica Weitzman. This book was released on 2021-02-15. At the Limit of the Obscene available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As German-language literature turned in the mid-nineteenth century to the depiction of the profane, sensual world, a corresponding anxiety emerged about the terms of that depiction—with consequences not only for realist poetics but also for the conception of the material world itself. At the Limit of the Obscene examines the roots and repercussions of this anxiety in German realist and postrealist literature. Through analyses of works by Adalbert Stifter, Gustav Freytag, Theodor Fontane, Arno Holz, Gottfried Benn, and Franz Kafka, Erica Weitzman shows how German realism’s conflicted representations of the material world lead to an idea of the obscene as an excess of sensual appearance beyond human meaning: the obverse of the anthropocentric worldview that German realism both propagates and pushes to its crisis. At the Limit of the Obscene thus brings to light the troubled and troubling ontology underlying German realism, at the same time demonstrating how its works continue to shape our ideas about representability, alterity, and the relationship of human beings to the non-human well into the present day.
The Anxiety of Ascent
The Anxiety of Ascent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Anxiety of Ascent write by Scott Doidge. This book was released on 2018-09-03. The Anxiety of Ascent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This intriguing book re-evaluates a narrative of cultural decline that developed in the wake of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. For Weber, and a group of influential sociologists that followed, Western modernity is marked by growing disenchantment with the beliefs and values that had previously given a sense of structure and meaning to life. Despite its unparalleled material achievements, the modern West in this reading is suffering from a crisis of meaning and is no longer able to provide authoritative answers to the only really important question: ‘What shall we do and how shall we live?’ This book examines two influential responses to this question: the German bourgeois ideal of the late nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century American celebration of the middle class. In each period, the exploration is guided by a close reading of a contemporary and retrospective text. For Germany, Gustav Freytag’s novel Debt and Credit (1855) is read against Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks (1901), and, for the US, the domestic comedy Father Knows Best (1954–1960) is read against the cable television drama Mad Men (2007–2015). The Anxiety of Ascent casts Weber’s narrative in a more optimistic light, pointing towards the redemptive possibilities contained within everyday life. As such, it will appeal to sociologists and cultural studies scholars interested in cultural sociology, social theory, morality, meaning and the culture of middle-class life.
Education for Sustainable Development in Foreign Language Learning
Education for Sustainable Development in Foreign Language Learning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Education for Sustainable Development in Foreign Language Learning write by María J. de la Fuente. This book was released on 2021-11-30. Education for Sustainable Development in Foreign Language Learning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This unique volume utilizes the UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) framework to illustrate successful integration of sustainability education in post-secondary foreign language (FL) learning. Showcasing a variety of approaches to using content-based instruction (CBI) in college-level courses, this text valuably demonstrates how topics relating to environmental, social, and cultural dimensions of sustainability can be integrated in FL curricula. Chapters draw on case studies from colleges throughout the US and consider theoretical and practical concerns relating to models of sustainability-based teaching and learning. Chapters present examples of project-, problem-, and task-based approaches, as well as field work, debate, and reflective pedagogies to enhance students’ awareness and engagement with sustainable development issues as they acquire a foreign language. Insights and recommendations apply across languages and highlight the potential contribution of FL learning to promote sustainability literacy amongst learners. This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators in higher education with an interest in Modern Foreign Languages, sustainability education, training, and leadership more broadly.
