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  1. Self-realization
    analysis of a primary literary theme
    Autor*in: Daemmrich, Horst S.
    Erschienen: 2021
    Verlag:  Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

    Introduction – Figures at Cross- Roads – Self- Realization: Coming- of- Age. Search for Orientation. Experience of Reality. Journey – Integration: Controlling Destiny by Accepting Existing Social Conditions – Isolation: The Shattered Self – Criticism... mehr

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    Introduction – Figures at Cross- Roads – Self- Realization: Coming- of- Age. Search for Orientation. Experience of Reality. Journey – Integration: Controlling Destiny by Accepting Existing Social Conditions – Isolation: The Shattered Self – Criticism of Society – Figures Probing the Current Historical Situation: Understanding the Past. Blindness and Self- Insight– Self- Realization and Vision of the Future – Conclusion: Self As Axis – Bibliography – Author Index – Index of Examined Works. The study of self-realization as a primary literary theme covers a wide range of literature. The journey to self-discovery can be represented in many different forms, from novels of development to social criticism and to historical plays. It can provide the core of a basic literary form, such as a fairytale and the decision on crossroads of life. The self as a primary literary element can be identified as an axis of symmetry, similar to a central section of a wheel, which connects to all related themes. The description of space, setting, time, historical moment, and heritage shape all documentation of self-orientation. Thematic developments highlight specific appropriate locations for the unfolding story. By comparing works from different periods and examining manifestations of the theme in American, French, English, and German literature, this study traces the theme of self-realization in the coming-of-age constellation, the acceptance and the criticism of existing social conditions, the attempts to comprehend the past and the current historical conditions, and in utopian visions of the future.While literature has provided singular and unforgettable portraits of figures in works ranging from Bellow, Dickens, Fontane, Goethe, Moliere, Schiller, Grass, and Raabe to Tolstoy or Trollope, it is equally apparent that primary forms of self-realization show a high correlation of recurring patterns. Some features associated with primary thematic emphasis and resolution occur with high frequency. Figures can be conceived of as being capable of intellectual and spiritual growth. Alternately, in a moment of insight, they may persevere in their errors in judgment, the frailty of institutions, or a web of circumstances that impeded their optimal development. In such instances, the action is usually designed to convey a vision of human potential to the reader—and furthermore, raise serious questions about the apparent predetermination of existence

     
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    Beteiligt: Lewis, Virginia L. (HerausgeberIn); Larkin, Edward T. (HerausgeberIn); Walter, Hugo G. (HerausgeberIn)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781433187261; 9781433187278; 9781433187285
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    Schriftenreihe: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; vol. 141
    Schlagworte: Literary criticism
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (193 Seiten)
  2. Self-realization
    analysis of a primary literary theme
    Autor*in: Daemmrich, Horst S.
    Erschienen: 2021
    Verlag:  Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

    Introduction – Figures at Cross- Roads – Self- Realization: Coming- of- Age. Search for Orientation. Experience of Reality. Journey – Integration: Controlling Destiny by Accepting Existing Social Conditions – Isolation: The Shattered Self – Criticism... mehr

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    Introduction – Figures at Cross- Roads – Self- Realization: Coming- of- Age. Search for Orientation. Experience of Reality. Journey – Integration: Controlling Destiny by Accepting Existing Social Conditions – Isolation: The Shattered Self – Criticism of Society – Figures Probing the Current Historical Situation: Understanding the Past. Blindness and Self- Insight– Self- Realization and Vision of the Future – Conclusion: Self As Axis – Bibliography – Author Index – Index of Examined Works. The study of self-realization as a primary literary theme covers a wide range of literature. The journey to self-discovery can be represented in many different forms, from novels of development to social criticism and to historical plays. It can provide the core of a basic literary form, such as a fairytale and the decision on crossroads of life. The self as a primary literary element can be identified as an axis of symmetry, similar to a central section of a wheel, which connects to all related themes. The description of space, setting, time, historical moment, and heritage shape all documentation of self-orientation. Thematic developments highlight specific appropriate locations for the unfolding story. By comparing works from different periods and examining manifestations of the theme in American, French, English, and German literature, this study traces the theme of self-realization in the coming-of-age constellation, the acceptance and the criticism of existing social conditions, the attempts to comprehend the past and the current historical conditions, and in utopian visions of the future.While literature has provided singular and unforgettable portraits of figures in works ranging from Bellow, Dickens, Fontane, Goethe, Moliere, Schiller, Grass, and Raabe to Tolstoy or Trollope, it is equally apparent that primary forms of self-realization show a high correlation of recurring patterns. Some features associated with primary thematic emphasis and resolution occur with high frequency. Figures can be conceived of as being capable of intellectual and spiritual growth. Alternately, in a moment of insight, they may persevere in their errors in judgment, the frailty of institutions, or a web of circumstances that impeded their optimal development. In such instances, the action is usually designed to convey a vision of human potential to the reader—and furthermore, raise serious questions about the apparent predetermination of existence

     
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781433187261; 9781433187278; 9781433187285
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    RVK Klassifikation: EC 2430 ; EC 5410
    Auflage/Ausgabe: 1st, New ed
    Schriftenreihe: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; vol. 141
    Schlagworte: Literary criticism
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (193 Seiten)
  3. Somnambulistic lucidity
    the sleepwalker in the works of Gustav Meyrink
    Autor*in: Klaus, Eric J.
    Erschienen: [2018]
    Verlag:  Peter Lang, New York

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  4. Somnambulistic Lucidity
    The Sleepwalker in the Works of Gustav Meyrink
    Autor*in: Klaus, Eric J.
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

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  5. Somnambulistic Lucidity
    The Sleepwalker in the Works of Gustav Meyrink
    Autor*in: Klaus, Eric J.
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

    Gustav Meyrink (1868–1932), best known as the author of The Golem (1915), experimented with the occult in a time rife with occult experimentation. As a seeker of esoteric truth, he practiced and wrote about elements of Western Esotericism—alternative... mehr

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    Gustav Meyrink (1868–1932), best known as the author of The Golem (1915), experimented with the occult in a time rife with occult experimentation. As a seeker of esoteric truth, he practiced and wrote about elements of Western Esotericism—alternative religious movements that pursued methods of tapping into secret spiritual wisdom that helped define the age. In doing so, Meyrink developed his own theories of salvation, which featured yoga as a means to open the door to supernatural and paranormal experience. In this way, his life, as well as his fiction, exemplifies liminality, existence on the margins. The core symbol of this liminal experience is the somnambulist: a figure existing between material and spiritual states of consciousness, having access to both yet belonging to neither. His oeuvre features characters entering trances, wandering the borders between "waking" and "metaphysical" worlds, gaining access to secret truths, and realizing salvation via a unio mystica. Meyrink, therefore, has much to say about the cultural climate of the fin de siècle: by viewing the turn of the twentieth century as a time defined by searches for certitude, by locating Western Esotericism as a meaningful movement of the age, by situating Meyrink on the periphery of social and spiritual spheres, and by identifying the sleepwalker as a seminal figure of the period as well as in Meyrink’s work, this study echoes Meyrink’s own attempts to find lucidity in the ambiguity of somnambulism “In his conceptually engaging and well-written study, «Somnambulistic Lucidity», Eric J. Klaus portrays Gustav Meyrink’s development from a flamboyant outsider to a spiritualistic recluse and concentrates on his esoteric response to what Max Weber called the ‘disenchantment of the world.’ Quite in tune with anti-rationalist, spiritual and occultist movements of his time, Meyrink searched for non-traditional revelation and redemption and created, beyond the iconic «Golem» (1915), somnambulistic characters who claimed to have access to the beyond. While exploring such ideas and narratives runs the risk of giving in to the ideological subtext, Klaus avoids this danger by putting Meyrink’s occultism in the context of Yuri Lotman’s semiotic theory, with emphasis on the ‘semiospheres’ in the explosion of alternate meaning.”Hinrich C. Seeba, Professor Emeritus of German, University of California at Berkeley List of Figures – Foreword – Acknowledgments – Prelude: Of Sleepwalkers and Semiospheres – Gustav Meyrink—Living, Writing, and Searching on the Periphery – The Modern Condition and the Semiosphere of Religiosity – Interlude: The Somnambulist in the Semiosphere Modern Religiosity – The Early Works: Meister Leonard and Liminality – The Early Novels (1915–1917) – The Late Novels (1921–1927) – Coda: Consonance in Dissonance – Index

     
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    Quelle: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Beteiligt: Lewis, Virginia L. (HerausgeberIn)
    Sprache: Englisch
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781433138232
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    9781433138232
    Auflage/Ausgabe: 1st, New ed
    Schriftenreihe: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 130
    Schlagworte: LCO008000
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (196 p), 5 ill
  6. Somnambulistic Lucidity
    The Sleepwalker in the Works of Gustav Meyrink
    Autor*in: Klaus, Eric J.
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

    Gustav Meyrink (1868–1932), best known as the author of The Golem (1915), experimented with the occult in a time rife with occult experimentation. As a seeker of esoteric truth, he practiced and wrote about elements of Western Esotericism—alternative... mehr

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    Gustav Meyrink (1868–1932), best known as the author of The Golem (1915), experimented with the occult in a time rife with occult experimentation. As a seeker of esoteric truth, he practiced and wrote about elements of Western Esotericism—alternative religious movements that pursued methods of tapping into secret spiritual wisdom that helped define the age. In doing so, Meyrink developed his own theories of salvation, which featured yoga as a means to open the door to supernatural and paranormal experience. In this way, his life, as well as his fiction, exemplifies liminality, existence on the margins. The core symbol of this liminal experience is the somnambulist: a figure existing between material and spiritual states of consciousness, having access to both yet belonging to neither. His oeuvre features characters entering trances, wandering the borders between "waking" and "metaphysical" worlds, gaining access to secret truths, and realizing salvation via a unio mystica. Meyrink, therefore, has much to say about the cultural climate of the fin de siècle: by viewing the turn of the twentieth century as a time defined by searches for certitude, by locating Western Esotericism as a meaningful movement of the age, by situating Meyrink on the periphery of social and spiritual spheres, and by identifying the sleepwalker as a seminal figure of the period as well as in Meyrink’s work, this study echoes Meyrink’s own attempts to find lucidity in the ambiguity of somnambulism “In his conceptually engaging and well-written study, «Somnambulistic Lucidity», Eric J. Klaus portrays Gustav Meyrink’s development from a flamboyant outsider to a spiritualistic recluse and concentrates on his esoteric response to what Max Weber called the ‘disenchantment of the world.’ Quite in tune with anti-rationalist, spiritual and occultist movements of his time, Meyrink searched for non-traditional revelation and redemption and created, beyond the iconic «Golem» (1915), somnambulistic characters who claimed to have access to the beyond. While exploring such ideas and narratives runs the risk of giving in to the ideological subtext, Klaus avoids this danger by putting Meyrink’s occultism in the context of Yuri Lotman’s semiotic theory, with emphasis on the ‘semiospheres’ in the explosion of alternate meaning.”Hinrich C. Seeba, Professor Emeritus of German, University of California at Berkeley List of Figures – Foreword – Acknowledgments – Prelude: Of Sleepwalkers and Semiospheres – Gustav Meyrink—Living, Writing, and Searching on the Periphery – The Modern Condition and the Semiosphere of Religiosity – Interlude: The Somnambulist in the Semiosphere Modern Religiosity – The Early Works: Meister Leonard and Liminality – The Early Novels (1915–1917) – The Late Novels (1921–1927) – Coda: Consonance in Dissonance – Index

     
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    Quelle: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Beteiligt: Lewis, Virginia L. (HerausgeberIn)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781433138232
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    9781433138232
    Auflage/Ausgabe: 1st, New ed
    Schriftenreihe: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 130
    Schlagworte: LCO008000
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (196 p), 5 ill
  7. Flames of passion, flames of greed
    acts of arson in German prose fiction 1850 - 1900
    Autor*in: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Erschienen: 1991
    Verlag:  Lang, New York [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 0820415006
    RVK Klassifikation: GL 1461 ; GL 1785 ; GM 1600
    Schriftenreihe: Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; 2
    Schlagworte: Array; Arson in literature
    Umfang: XVI, 251 S., 23 cm
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    Literaturverz. S. [231] - 235
  8. The Novels of Zsigmond Móricz in the Context of European Realism
    A Thematic Approach
    Autor*in: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Erschienen: 2023; ©2023
    Verlag:  Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated, New York

    The Novels of Zsigmond Móricz is the first English-language monograph on one of Hungary's--and Central Europe's--most important modern authors. mehr

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    Technische Universität Chemnitz, Universitätsbibliothek
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    The Novels of Zsigmond Móricz is the first English-language monograph on one of Hungary's--and Central Europe's--most important modern authors.

     
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    ISBN: 9781433167744
    Auflage/Ausgabe: 1st ed.
    Schriftenreihe: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature Ser. ; v.140
    Schlagworte: Electronic books
    Umfang: 1 online resource (168 pages)
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  9. Flames of passion, flames of greed
    acts of arson in German prose fiction 1850 - 1900
    Autor*in: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Erschienen: 1991
    Verlag:  Lang, New York [u.a.]

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    Schriftenreihe: Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; 2
    Schlagworte: Epik; Betrug <Motiv>; Rache <Motiv>; Deutsch
    Umfang: XVI, 251 S.
  10. Globalizing the peasant
    access to land and the possibility of self-realization
    Autor*in: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Erschienen: 2007
    Verlag:  Lexington Books, Lanham, Md. [u.a.]

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    Quelle: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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    ISBN: 0739109537; 9780739109533
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    Schlagworte: Peasants in literature; Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern
    Umfang: XXXVIII, 277 S
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    Includes bibliographical references (S. 235-246) and index
  11. Flames of passion, flames of greed
    acts of arson in German prose fiction 1850 - 1900
    Autor*in: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Erschienen: 1991
    Verlag:  Lang, New York [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 0820415006
    RVK Klassifikation: GL 1461 ; GL 1785 ; GM 1600
    Schriftenreihe: Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; 2
    Schlagworte: Deutsch; Epik; Rache <Motiv>; Betrug <Motiv>; Brandstiftung <Motiv>
    Umfang: XVI, 251 S
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    Literaturverz. S. 231 - 235
  12. Becoming Fiction
    Reassessing Atheism in Dürrenmatt's «Stoffe»
    Beteiligt: Lewis, Virginia L. (Hrsg.); Larkin, Edward T. (Hrsg.); Walter, Hugo (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2018; © 2017
    Verlag:  Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

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    Beteiligt: Lewis, Virginia L. (Hrsg.); Larkin, Edward T. (Hrsg.); Walter, Hugo (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781453919187
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    Auflage/Ausgabe: 1st, New ed
    Schlagworte: Atheismus <Motiv>
    Weitere Schlagworte: Dürrenmatt, Friedrich (1921-1990)
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    Becoming Fiction: Reassessing Atheism in Dürrenmatt's Stoffe sets forth a clarification of the importance of Friedrich Dürrenmatt, modern Swiss dramatist, essayist, novelist and self-proclaimed atheist (1921-1990), and offers new insights into the ways in which his father's vocation as a Protestant minister, along with Dürrenmatt's own decision as a young man to pursue a career in writing rather than religion, shaped his world view and, in particular, made necessary a final, desperate attempt to fictionally recast his own life through revisions and amplifications of many of his earlier works when he created his final prose volume, Stoffe. Dürrenmatt devoted immense energy in his writings to wrestling with his father's God as a way of seeking self-identity. That perceived loss of his father's esteem became the motor behind his works. After earlier successes, the icy reception of his most ambitious play, Der Mitmacher, in 1976, left the author in such a frustrated state of disappointment that he reached a point of linguistic breakdown. This book contends that Dürrenmatt's loss of voice forced the author to a new kind of writing: a 're-turn' home. Becoming Fiction explores the damage caused by Dürrenmatt's inability to express his most central beliefs through the outdated, deceptive modes of linguistic thought and tradition. Consequently, the book argues, at the point of that breakdown of rigid linguistic and theological concepts, a space was forced open, and the Stoffe reveal a Divine presence
  13. Text in the Natural World
    Topics in the Evolutionary Theory of Literature
    Beteiligt: Lewis, Virginia L. (Hrsg.); Walter, Hugo (Hrsg.); Larkin, Edward T. (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2017
    Verlag:  Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

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    Beteiligt: Lewis, Virginia L. (Hrsg.); Walter, Hugo (Hrsg.); Larkin, Edward T. (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781433137686
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    RVK Klassifikation: EC 1850 ; EC 2490 ; EC 2500
    Auflage/Ausgabe: 1st, New ed
    Schlagworte: Literaturtheorie; Evolutionstheorie; Literatur; Evolution
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    The study of literature has expanded to include an evolutionary perspective. Its premise is that the literary text and literature as an overarching institution came into existence as a product of the same evolutionary process that gave rise to the human species. In this view, literature is an evolutionary adaptation that functions as any other adaptation does, as a means of enhancing survivability and also promoting benefits for the individual and society. Text in the Natural World is an introduction to the theory and a survey of topics pertinent to the evolutionary view of literature. After a polemical, prefatory chapter and an overview of the pertinent aspects of evolutionary theory itself, the book examines integral building blocks of literature and literary expression as effects of evolutionary development. This includes chapters on moral sense, symbolic thought, literary aesthetics in general, literary ontology, the broad topic of form, function and device in literature, a last theoretical chapter on narrative, and a chapter on literary themes. The concluding chapter builds on the preceding one as an illustration of evolutionary thematic study in practice, in a study of the fauna in the fiction of Maupassant. This text is designed to be of interest to those who read and think about things literary, as well as to those who have interest in the extension of Darwin's great idea across the horizon of human culture. It tries to bridge the gulf that has separated the humanities from the sciences, and would be a helpful text for courses taught in both literary theory and interdisciplinary approaches to literature and philosophy
  14. Somnambulistic Lucidity
    The Sleepwalker in the Works of Gustav Meyrink
    Beteiligt: Lewis, Virginia L. (Hrsg.); Larkin, Edward T. (Hrsg.); Walter, Hugo (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

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    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781433138232
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    Auflage/Ausgabe: 1st, New ed
    Schlagworte: LCO008000; Schlafwandeln <Motiv>
    Weitere Schlagworte: Meyrink, Gustav (1868-1932)
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (196 Seiten), 5 ill
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    Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932), best known as the author of The Golem (1915), experimented with the occult in a time rife with occult experimentation. As a seeker of esoteric truth, he practiced and wrote about elements of Western Esotericism-alternative religious movements that pursued methods of tapping into secret spiritual wisdom that helped define the age. In doing so, Meyrink developed his own theories of salvation, which featured yoga as a means to open the door to supernatural and paranormal experience. In this way, his life, as well as his fiction, exemplifies liminality, existence on the margins. The core symbol of this liminal experience is the somnambulist: a figure existing between material and spiritual states of consciousness, having access to both yet belonging to neither. His oeuvre features characters entering trances, wandering the borders between "waking" and "metaphysical" worlds, gaining access to secret truths, and realizing salvation via a unio mystica. Meyrink, therefore, has much to say about the cultural climate of the fin de siècle: by viewing the turn of the twentieth century as a time defined by searches for certitude, by locating Western Esotericism as a meaningful movement of the age, by situating Meyrink on the periphery of social and spiritual spheres, and by identifying the sleepwalker as a seminal figure of the period as well as in Meyrink's work, this study echoes Meyrink's own attempts to find lucidity in the ambiguity of somnambulism

    "In his conceptually engaging and well-written study, «Somnambulistic Lucidity», Eric J. Klaus portrays Gustav Meyrink's development from a flamboyant outsider to a spiritualistic recluse and concentrates on his esoteric response to what Max Weber called the 'disenchantment of the world.' Quite in tune with anti-rationalist, spiritual and occultist movements of his time, Meyrink searched for non-traditional revelation and redemption and created, beyond the iconic «Golem» (1915), somnambulistic characters who claimed to have access to the beyond. While exploring such ideas and narratives runs the risk of giving in to the ideological subtext, Klaus avoids this danger by putting Meyrink's occultism in the context of Yuri Lotman's semiotic theory, with emphasis on the 'semiospheres' in the explosion of alternate meaning." Hinrich C. Seeba, Professor Emeritus of German, University of California at Berkeley
  15. The novels of Zsigmond Móricz in the context of European realism
    a thematic approach
    Autor*in: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Erschienen: [2023]; © 2023
    Verlag:  Peter Lang, New York ; Berlin ; Brussels ; Lausanne ; Oxford

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    RVK Klassifikation: EK 2805
    Schriftenreihe: Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; vol. 140
    Schlagworte: Roman; Realismus
    Weitere Schlagworte: Móricz, Zsigmond (1879-1942); The Novels of Zsigmond Móricz in the Context of European Realism; agency; Hungarian literature; realism; narrative; commodification; money; greed; gentry; peasant; Zsigmond Móricz; antihero; A Thematic Approach; Virginia L. Lewis; Erzählende Literatur
    Umfang: 152 Seiten, 21 cm x 14.8 cm
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    Literaturverzeichnis Seite 145-148
  16. The novels of Zsigmond Móricz in the context of European realism
    a thematic approach
    Autor*in: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Erschienen: [2023]
    Verlag:  Peter Lang, New York

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    Schriftenreihe: Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; vol. 140
    Schlagworte: Roman; Realismus
    Weitere Schlagworte: Móricz, Zsigmond (1879-1942); (Produktform)Hardback; The Novels of Zsigmond Móricz in the Context of European Realism; agency; Hungarian literature; realism; narrative; commodification; money; greed; gentry; peasant; Zsigmond Móricz; antihero; A Thematic Approach; Virginia L. Lewis; (VLB-WN)1110: Hardcover, Softcover / Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
    Umfang: 152 Seiten, 23 cm, 317 g
  17. Flames of passion, flames of greed
    acts of arson in German prose fiction 1850 - 1900
    Autor*in: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Erschienen: 1991
    Verlag:  Lang, New York

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    Sprache: Deutsch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 0820415006
    DDC Klassifikation: Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch (430); Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur (830)
    Schriftenreihe: Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; Vol. 2
    Schlagworte: Deutsch; Epik; Rache <Motiv>; Deutsch; Epik; Betrug <Motiv>
    Umfang: 251 S., 23 cm
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  18. Gottfried keller ‘s critique of enclosures in romeo und julia auf dem dorfe
    Autor*in: Lewis, Virginia L.

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    Enthalten in: Neophilologus; Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 1916-; 89, Heft 1, 73-87, 1.2005; Online-Ressource
    Weitere Schlagworte: (lcsh)Historical linguistics.; (lcsh)Comparative linguistics.; (lcsh)Philology.; (lcsh)Comparative literature.; (lcsh)Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.; Historical Linguistics.; Comparative Linguistics.; Philology.; Comparative Literature.; Syntax.
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  19. Flames of passion, flames of greed
    acts of arson in German prose fiction 1850 - 1900
    Autor*in: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Erschienen: 1991
    Verlag:  Lang, New York u.a.

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    a thematic approach
    Autor*in: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Erschienen: [2023]; © 2023
    Verlag:  Peter Lang, New York ; Berlin ; Brussels ; Lausanne ; Oxford

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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    RVK Klassifikation: EK 2805
    Schriftenreihe: Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; vol. 140
    Schlagworte: Roman; Realismus
    Weitere Schlagworte: Móricz, Zsigmond (1879-1942); The Novels of Zsigmond Móricz in the Context of European Realism; agency; Hungarian literature; realism; narrative; commodification; money; greed; gentry; peasant; Zsigmond Móricz; antihero; A Thematic Approach; Virginia L. Lewis; Erzählende Literatur
    Umfang: 152 Seiten, 21 cm x 14.8 cm
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  21. Journeys and Journals
    Autor*in: Larkin, Edward T.
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  Peter Lang Inc., New York ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black migrations with mystery novels by African American women, novels which explore fully the psychic, economic, and spiritual impact of mass migratory... mehr

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    Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black migrations with mystery novels by African American women, novels which explore fully the psychic, economic, and spiritual impact of mass migratory movements. Diaspora travel has been forced and selected and has extended from the Slave Trade through the contemporary moment, causing the black subject to wrestle with motion, the self in motion, the community in motion, the spirit in motion, culture in motion, and especially the past in motion. Reviewing these major migratory patterns of Africans to and within the United States from slavery to the present and defining the primary tropes and traditions in African American female mystery writing, each subsequent chapter looks intensely at specific figurative locations that could become a repository for reconstituted dense space in the new world. Detectives as penned by African American women writers sound out and deliberate over the viability of integrated institutions, the family, Bohemianism, religion, cities, class consciousness, and finally culture. Courses on African American literature, African American history and culture, detective fiction, urban studies, and women’s studies would find the book instructive.

     
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    Beteiligt: Lewis, Virginia L.; Walter, Hugo; Allen, Carol
    Sprache: Englisch
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781453916889
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    DDC Klassifikation: Amerikanische Literatur in in Englisch (810)
    Auflage/Ausgabe: 1st, New ed.
    Schriftenreihe: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 127
    Schlagworte: Schwarze Frau; Frauenroman; Kriminalroman; Migration <Motiv>
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource
  22. Becoming Fiction
    Autor*in: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Peter Lang Inc., New York ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Becoming Fiction: Reassessing Atheism in Dürrenmatt’s Stoffe sets forth a clarification of the importance of Friedrich Dürrenmatt, modern Swiss dramatist, essayist, novelist and self-proclaimed atheist (1921–1990), and offers new insights into the... mehr

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    Becoming Fiction: Reassessing Atheism in Dürrenmatt’s Stoffe sets forth a clarification of the importance of Friedrich Dürrenmatt, modern Swiss dramatist, essayist, novelist and self-proclaimed atheist (1921–1990), and offers new insights into the ways in which his father’s vocation as a Protestant minister, along with Dürrenmatt’s own decision as a young man to pursue a career in writing rather than religion, shaped his world view and, in particular, made necessary a final, desperate attempt to fictionally recast his own life through revisions and amplifications of many of his earlier works when he created his final prose volume, Stoffe. Dürrenmatt devoted immense energy in his writings to wrestling with his father’s God as a way of seeking self-identity. That perceived loss of his father’s esteem became the motor behind his works. After earlier successes, the icy reception of his most ambitious play, Der Mitmacher, in 1976, left the author in such a frustrated state of disappointment that he reached a point of linguistic breakdown. This book contends that Dürrenmatt’s loss of voice forced the author to a new kind of writing: a ‘re-turn’ home. Becoming Fiction explores the damage caused by Dürrenmatt’s inability to express his most central beliefs through the outdated, deceptive modes of linguistic thought and tradition. Consequently, the book argues, at the point of that breakdown of rigid linguistic and theological concepts, a space was forced open, and the Stoffe reveal a Divine presence.

     
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    Beteiligt: Larkin, Edward T.; Walter, Hugo; Gabor-Peirce, Olivia
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    ISBN: 9781453919187
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    DDC Klassifikation: Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur (830)
    Auflage/Ausgabe: 1st, New ed.
    Schriftenreihe: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 131
    Schlagworte: Atheismus <Motiv>
    Weitere Schlagworte: Dürrenmatt, Friedrich (1921-1990): Stoffe
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  23. Text in the Natural World
    Autor*in: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Erschienen: 2017
    Verlag:  Peter Lang Inc., New York ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    The study of literature has expanded to include an evolutionary perspective. Its premise is that the literary text and literature as an overarching institution came into existence as a product of the same evolutionary process that gave rise to the... mehr

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    The study of literature has expanded to include an evolutionary perspective. Its premise is that the literary text and literature as an overarching institution came into existence as a product of the same evolutionary process that gave rise to the human species. In this view, literature is an evolutionary adaptation that functions as any other adaptation does, as a means of enhancing survivability and also promoting benefits for the individual and society. Text in the Natural World is an introduction to the theory and a survey of topics pertinent to the evolutionary view of literature. After a polemical, prefatory chapter and an overview of the pertinent aspects of evolutionary theory itself, the book examines integral building blocks of literature and literary expression as effects of evolutionary development. This includes chapters on moral sense, symbolic thought, literary aesthetics in general, literary ontology, the broad topic of form, function and device in literature, a last theoretical chapter on narrative, and a chapter on literary themes. The concluding chapter builds on the preceding one as an illustration of evolutionary thematic study in practice, in a study of the fauna in the fiction of Maupassant. This text is designed to be of interest to those who read and think about things literary, as well as to those who have interest in the extension of Darwin’s great idea across the horizon of human culture. It tries to bridge the gulf that has separated the humanities from the sciences, and would be a helpful text for courses taught in both literary theory and interdisciplinary approaches to literature and philosophy.

     
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    Beteiligt: Walter, Hugo; Larkin, Edward T.; Gregorio, Laurence A.
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    ISBN: 9781433137686
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    RVK Klassifikation: EC 1850 ; EC 2490
    DDC Klassifikation: Literatur und Rhetorik (800)
    Auflage/Ausgabe: 1st, New ed.
    Schriftenreihe: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 133
    Schlagworte: Literaturtheorie; Evolution; Literatur; Evolutionstheorie
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  24. Somnambulistic Lucidity
    Autor*in: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Peter Lang Inc., New York ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Gustav Meyrink (1868–1932), best known as the author of The Golem (1915), experimented with the occult in a time rife with occult experimentation. As a seeker of esoteric truth, he practiced and wrote about elements of Western Esotericism—alternative... mehr

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    Gustav Meyrink (1868–1932), best known as the author of The Golem (1915), experimented with the occult in a time rife with occult experimentation. As a seeker of esoteric truth, he practiced and wrote about elements of Western Esotericism—alternative religious movements that pursued methods of tapping into secret spiritual wisdom that helped define the age. In doing so, Meyrink developed his own theories of salvation, which featured yoga as a means to open the door to supernatural and paranormal experience. In this way, his life, as well as his fiction, exemplifies liminality, existence on the margins. The core symbol of this liminal experience is the somnambulist: a figure existing between material and spiritual states of consciousness, having access to both yet belonging to neither. His oeuvre features characters entering trances, wandering the borders between "waking" and "metaphysical" worlds, gaining access to secret truths, and realizing salvation via a unio mystica. Meyrink, therefore, has much to say about the cultural climate of the fin de siècle: by viewing the turn of the twentieth century as a time defined by searches for certitude, by locating Western Esotericism as a meaningful movement of the age, by situating Meyrink on the periphery of social and spiritual spheres, and by identifying the sleepwalker as a seminal figure of the period as well as in Meyrink’s work, this study echoes Meyrink’s own attempts to find lucidity in the ambiguity of somnambulism. “In his conceptually engaging and well-written study, «Somnambulistic Lucidity», Eric J. Klaus portrays Gustav Meyrink’s development from a flamboyant outsider to a spiritualistic recluse and concentrates on his esoteric response to what Max Weber called the ‘disenchantment of the world.’ Quite in tune with anti-rationalist, spiritual and occultist movements of his time, Meyrink searched for non-traditional revelation and redemption and created, beyond the iconic «Golem» (1915), somnambulistic characters who claimed to have access to the beyond. While exploring such ideas and narratives runs the risk of giving in to the ideological subtext, Klaus avoids this danger by putting Meyrink’s occultism in the context of Yuri Lotman’s semiotic theory, with emphasis on the ‘semiospheres’ in the explosion of alternate meaning.”Hinrich C. Seeba, Professor Emeritus of German, University of California at Berkeley...

     
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    Beteiligt: Larkin, Edward T.; Walter, Hugo; Klaus, Eric J.
    Sprache: Englisch
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    ISBN: 9781433138232
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    DDC Klassifikation: Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur (830)
    Auflage/Ausgabe: 1st, New ed.
    Schriftenreihe: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 130
    Schlagworte: Schlafwandeln <Motiv>
    Weitere Schlagworte: Meyrink, Gustav (1868-1932)
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  25. Celebrating the Sacred in Ordinary Life
    Autor*in: Larkin, Edward T.
    Erschienen: 2017
    Verlag:  Peter Lang Inc., New York ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    This book is an introductory examination of the Hermetic tradition in the Renaissance and how James Joyce made use of certain of its salient features in his four works of fiction: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and... mehr

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    This book is an introductory examination of the Hermetic tradition in the Renaissance and how James Joyce made use of certain of its salient features in his four works of fiction: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. This book makes a useful contribution to literary studies of Joyce’s work as well as introductory cultural studies of the Hermetic tradition, its philosophy and important figures, like Marsilio Ficino and Giordano Bruno.

     
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    Beteiligt: Lewis, Virginia L.; Walter, Hugo; Absher, Tom
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    ISBN: 9781433141744
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    DDC Klassifikation: Englische, altenglische Literaturen (820)
    Auflage/Ausgabe: 1st, New ed.
    Schriftenreihe: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 134
    Schlagworte: Das Heilige; Hermetische Literatur
    Weitere Schlagworte: Joyce, James (1882-1941)
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