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  • Classicism of the Twenties

    Art, Music, & Literature

    de Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct and influential was a turn to classicism.In Classicism of the Twenties, Theodore Ziolkowski offers a compelling account of that movement. Giving equal attention to music, art, and ... Leer más

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  • German Romanticism and Its Institutions

    de Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    Using an illuminating method that challenges the popular notion of Romanticism as aesthetic escapism, Theodore Ziolkowski explores five institutions--mining, law, madhouses, universities, and museums--that provide the socio-historical context for German Romantic culture. He shows how German writers and thinkers helped to shape these five institutions, all of which assumed their modern form during ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Gilgamesh among Us

    Modern Encounters with the Ancient Epic

    de Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    The world's oldest work of literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh recounts the adventures of the semimythical Sumerian king of Uruk and his ultimately futile quest for immortality after the death of his friend and companion, Enkidu, a wildman sent by the gods. Gilgamesh was deified by the Sumerians around 2500 BCE, and his tale as we know it today was codified in cuneiform tablets around 1750 BCE and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Lure of the Arcane

    The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy

    de Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    A study of the depiction of cults, conspiracies, and secret societies in literature from ancient Greek and Roman mysteries to the 21st century thriller.Fascination with the arcane is a driving force in this comprehensive survey of conspiracy fiction. Theodore Ziolkowski traces the evolution of cults, orders, lodges, secret societies, and conspiracies through various literary manifestations—drama, ... Leer más

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  • Minos and the Moderns

    Cretan Myth in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art

    de Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    Minos and the Moderns considers three mythological complexes that enjoyed a unique surge of interest in early twentieth-century European art and literature: Europa and the bull, the minotaur and the labyrinth, and Daedalus and Icarus. All three are situated on the island of Crete and are linked by the figure of King Minos. Drawing examples from fiction, poetry, drama, painting, sculpture, opera, ... Leer más

    $81.99 USD

  • Uses and Abuses of Moses

    Literary Representations since the Enlightenment

    de Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    In Uses and Abuses of Moses, Theodore Ziolkowski surveys the major literary treatments of the biblical figure of Moses since the Enlightenment. Beginning with the influential treatments by Schiller and Goethe, for whom Moses was, respectively, a member of a mystery cult and a violent murderer, Ziolkowski examines an impressive array of dramas, poems, operas, novels, and films to show the many ways ... Leer más

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  • Stages of European Romanticism

    Cultural Synchronicity across the Arts, 1798-1848

    de Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    Romanticism was a truly European phenomenon, extending roughly from the French Revolution to the 1848 revolutions and embracing not only literature and drama but also music and visual arts. Because of Romanticism's vast scope, most treatments have restricted themselves to single countries or to specific forms, notably literature, art, or music. This book takes a wider view by considering in each ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Scandal on Stage

    European Theater as Moral Trial

    de Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    New plays and operas have often tried to upset the status quo or disturb the assumptions of theatre audiences. Yet, as this study explores, the reactions of the audience or of the authorities are often more extreme than the creators had envisaged, to include outrage, riots, protests or censorship. Scandal on Stage looks at ten famous theater scandals of the past two centuries in Germany and France ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Cults and Conspiracies

    A Literary History

    de Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    Explore 2,000 years of conspiracy in literature.Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceHuman beings have believed in conspiracies presumably as long as there have been groups of at least three people in which one was convinced that the other two were plotting against him or her. In that sense one might look back as far as Eve and the serpent to find the world’s first conspiracy. Whereas recent ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Music into Fiction

    Composers Writing, Compositions Imitated

    de Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    This book deals with three aspects that have been neglected in the burgeoning field of music and literature. The "First Movement" of the book considers writers from German Romanticism to the present who, like Robert Schumann, first saw themselves as writers before they turned to composition, or, like E. T. A. Hoffmann and Anthony Burgess, sought careers in music before becoming writers. It also ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Glass Bead Game

    (Magister Ludi) A Novel

    de Hermann Hesse ...
    Traducido por Richard Winston, Clara Winston ...
    The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature.Set in the 23rd century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Assignment

    or, On the Observing of the Observer of the Observers

    de Friedrich Dürrenmatt ...
    Traducido por Joel Agee ...
    In Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s experimental thriller The Assignment, the wife of a psychiatrist has been raped and killed near a desert ruin in North Africa. Her husband hires a woman named F. to reconstruct the unsolved crime in a documentary film. F. is soon unwittingly thrust into a paranoid world of international espionage where everyone is watched—including the watchers. After discovering a recent ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD