"Eine eigentliche Durchdringung": literary and national identity, gender, and body in Rilke's "Stifter Letter" to August Sauer
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The signifying field of Rainer Maria Rilke's text, tracing the workings of its composite rhetoric of literary and linguistic identity, the body and gender, nation and imperial-colonial discourse are explored.
Publication Name: The German Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-8831
Year: 2003
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Modernist aesthetics in Joseph Roth's Radetzkymarsch: the crisis of meaning and the role of the reader
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The aesthetic theories of Carl Einstein, Joseph Roth's contemporary, are employed to shed light on the modernist aspects of Roth's work. It depicts an aesthetic transition from realism to modernization.
Publication Name: The German Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-8831
Year: 2003
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Nostalgia for a better Germany: Carl Zuckmayer's Des Teufels General
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The play Des Teufels General by Carl Zuckmayer is explained. It interlaces the contours of a historical figure with a financial plot and a Christian mythic structure.
Publication Name: The German Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-8831
Year: 2003
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