The Dear Purchase by J P Stern
This book studies individual works by twelve major writers of German modernism, including Thomas Mann, Musil, Brecht and Rilke, in relation to the history of the twentieth century. It explores the theme of the 'dear purchase', an ideal of moral strenuousness and sacrifice seen as characteristic of Germany after Nietzsche, and reveals the underlying flaw in this notion as a self-justifying value. In this context, it considers the renaissance of German poetry after 1900, the impact of the War of 1914, its aftermath in uncertainty and relativism, and attitudes to the Hitler period, and finally juxtaposes Mann's Felix Krull and Kafka's story Josephine as a deliverance from the value-system of the title. The Introduction, partly autobiographical, traces J. P. Stern's preoccupation with this interpretation of his material in many of the books he published (especially those concerned with Nietzsche and Hitler), and pays tribute to Wittgenstein's influence on his thinking.-
Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile
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Philosophy and German Literature, 17001990
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Reading Heinrich Heine
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Contemporary German Fiction
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Murderesses in German Writing, 17201860
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The German Tradition of Psychology in Literature and Thought, 17001840
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Robert Musil's 'The Man Without Qualities'
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Frankenstein's Island
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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Literature and German Reunification
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Women Writers and National Identity
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The German Bildungsroman
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Friedrich Schiller
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German Romantic Literary Theory
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Stefan Heym
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Freud's Literary Culture
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Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 17711871
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Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition
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The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist
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Christa Wolf's Utopian Vision
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Theatre in Vienna
'… [a] matchless analysis of German Modernism' The Times
Stern, J. P.: - J. P. Stern (1920-1991) was Professor of German at University College London from 1972 to 1986, and was a prolific scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521433303 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521433304 |
| Title | The Dear Purchase |
| Author | J P Stern |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In German |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1995-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 468 |
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