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Stefan Zweig and World Literature : Twenty-First Century Perspectives /

The twenty-first century has seen a renewed surge of cultural and critical interest in the works of the Austrian-Jewish author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), who was among the most-read and -acclaimed authors worldwide in the 1920s and 1930s but after 1945 fell into critical disfavor and relative obscuri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Vanwesenbeeck, Birger (Editor ), Gelber, Mark H., 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2014.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Birger Vanwesenbeeck and Mark H. Gelber
  • Part I: Reception
  • A Stefan Zweig revival? / Birger vanwesenbeeck
  • Part II: Drama and Fiction
  • Stefan Zweig's Drama Jeremias in context / John Warren
  • "That voice in the darkness!": technologies of the tropical talking cure in
  • Stefan Zweig's Der Amoklaufer and Verwirrung der Gefuhle / Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
  • Narrating alterity: Stefan Zweig, Emmanuel Levinas, and the trauma of redemption / Robert Weldon Whalen
  • Part III: Criticism and essays
  • Stefan Zweig and the concept of world literature / Mark H. Gelber
  • Landscape, "Heimat," and artistic production: Stefan Zweig's introduction to E.M. Lilien: Sein Werk / Richard V. Benson
  • Stefan Zweig's non-fictional prose in exile: mastery of the European genre of "Kunstprosa" / Klaus Weissenberger
  • Part IV: Politics and exile
  • The writer's political obligations in exile: the case of Stefan Zweig / Jeffrey B. Berlin
  • True to himself: Stefan Zweig's visit to Argentina in September 1936 / Robert Kelz
  • Exile and liminality in "A Land of the Future": Charlotte and Stefan Zweig in Brazil, August 1941-March 1942 / Darien J. Davis
  • Stefan Zweig's concept of Brazil in the context of German-Jewish emigration / Marlen Eckl
  • Stefan Zweig: life in cities of exile / Klemens Renoldner
  • Notes on the contributors
  • Index.