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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Stefan George; Stefan George; Stefan George; Stefan George; Stefan George; Stefan George; Stefan George; Stefan George; Stefan George; Stefan George; Stefan George |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
M S Lane; Martin A Ruehl |
ISBN: | 9781571134622 157113462X |
OCLC Number: | 733755504 |
Description: | x, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The George circle : from Künstlergesellschaft to Lebensgemeinschaft / Ute Oelmann -- Stefan George's homoerotic Erlösungsreligion, 1891-1907 / Adam Bisno -- The secret Germany of Gertrud Kantorowicz / Robert E. Lerner -- The poet as idol : Friedrich Gundolf on Rilke and poetic leadership / Rüdiger Görner -- Kingdom of the spirit : the secret Germany in Stefan George's later poems / Ray Ockenden -- The absentee prophet : public perceptions of George's poetry in the Weimar period / David Midgley -- The platonic politics of the George circle : a reconsideration / Melissa S. Lane -- Political economy as Geisteswissenschaft : Edgar Salin and other economists around George / Bertram Schefold -- "Imperium transcendat hominem" : Reich and rulership in Ernst Kantorowicz's Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite / Martin A. Ruehl -- Third Reich and third Europe : Stefan George's imperial mythologies in context / Richard Faber -- From secret Germany to Nazi Germany : the politics of art before and after 1933 / Robert E. Norton -- The George circle and national socialism / Peter Hoffmann -- Stauffenberg : the search for a motive / Thomas Karlauf. |
Series Title: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture. |
Responsibility: | edited by Melissa S. Lane and Martin A. Ruehl. |
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It is the enormous service of this collection to let . . . contradictory theses and argumentations have their effect on the reader, and what is more, to have brought together authors of very different disciplines. Thereby an informative and comprehensive work has come into existence that spans a wide arc: from the lyric poetry to the Blatter-Society, science, and economics; from mythologizing to politics; from homosexuality to misogyny; from antisemitism to National Socialism. The volume delivers thusly many specific points of departure for new research into George and the George Circle, yet remains accessible to a broader readership as an advanced introduction. In its abundance this book opens to the Anglophone world a nuanced access to George the poet and the social figure. -- Max Kramer * H-GERMAN, H-NET REVIEWS * A . . . stimulating and mostly very readable volume that, it is to be wished, will not only carry forth outside Germany the extremely productive discussions there about the George Circle, but will also have an effect on them. * STEFAN GEORGE JAHRBUCH * What makes this volume . . . so eminently enjoyable is the fact that while this new crop of George scholars largely agree to ignore the ideological pitched battles that marked George's postwar reception, they agree on little else. There is a spirited debate between the different contributors, and while none of them offer the simple answers to the question of the George circle's politics that proved so seductive after 1945, they each accentuate their answers differently. * MONATSHEFTE * This volume tackles important questions. . . . [Some of the essays] provide incisive contributions to English-language research on George and the relationship between poetry, ethics, and politics. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW * This book is another in a long line of excellent Camden House publications. Highly recommended. -- Mark McCulloh * CHOICE * Read more...


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- George, Stefan, -- 1868-1933 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- George, Stefan, -- 1868-1933 -- Influence.
- George, Stefan, -- 1868-1933 -- Friends and associates.
- George, Stefan, -- 1868-1933 -- Political and social views.
- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
- National socialism and literature.
- Allemagne -- Vie intellectuelle -- 20e siècle.
- Nazisme et littérature.
- 18.09 German literature.
- George, Stefan, -- 1868-1933.
- Friendship.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Intellectual life.
- Political and social views.
- Germany.
- George-Kreis
- Politisches Denken
- George, Stefan, -- 1868-1933 -- politiska och sociala åsikter.
- George, Stefan, -- 1868-1933 -- analys och tolkning.
- Nazism och litteratur.
- Tyskland -- intellektuellt liv -- historia -- 1900-talet.