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  1. Somnambulistic Lucidity
    The Sleepwalker in the Works of Gustav Meyrink
    Author: Klaus, Eric J.
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  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... more

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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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    ISBN: 9781433138232
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    Edition: 1st, New ed
    Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 130
    Subjects: LCO008000
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (196 p), 5 ill
  2. Self-realization
    analysis of a primary literary theme
    Author: Daemmrich, Horst S.
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  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... more

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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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    Contributor: Lewis, Virginia L. (HerausgeberIn); Larkin, Edward T. (HerausgeberIn); Walter, Hugo G. (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781433187261; 9781433187278; 9781433187285
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    9781433187261
    RVK Categories: EC 2430 ; EC 5410
    Edition: 1st, New ed
    Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; vol. 141
    Subjects: Literary criticism
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (193 Seiten)
  3. Somnambulistic Lucidity
    The Sleepwalker in the Works of Gustav Meyrink
    Author: Klaus, Eric J.
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  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... more

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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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    ISBN: 9781433138232
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    9781433138232
    Edition: 1st, New ed
    Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 130
    Subjects: LCO008000
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (196 p), 5 ill
  4. Somnambulistic Lucidity
    The Sleepwalker in the Works of Gustav Meyrink
    Author: Klaus, Eric J.
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

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  5. Somnambulistic lucidity
    the sleepwalker in the works of Gustav Meyrink
    Author: Klaus, Eric J.
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, New York

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  6. Self-realization
    analysis of a primary literary theme
    Author: Daemmrich, Horst S.
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  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... more

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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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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Lewis, Virginia L. (HerausgeberIn); Larkin, Edward T. (HerausgeberIn); Walter, Hugo G. (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781433187261; 9781433187278; 9781433187285
    Other identifier:
    9781433187261
    RVK Categories: EC 2430 ; EC 5410
    Edition: 1st, New ed
    Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; vol. 141
    Subjects: Literary criticism
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (193 Seiten)
  7. Flames of passion, flames of greed
    acts of arson in German prose fiction 1850 - 1900
    Author: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Lang, New York [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0820415006
    RVK Categories: GL 1461 ; GL 1785 ; GM 1600
    Series: Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; 2
    Subjects: Array; Arson in literature
    Scope: XVI, 251 S., 23 cm
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. [231] - 235
  8. Globalizing the peasant
    access to land and the possibility of self-realization
    Author: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Lexington Books [u.a.], Lanham [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0739109537; 9780739109533
    Subjects: Landleben <Motiv>; Bauer <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: XXXVIII, 277 S.
  9. Journeys and Journals
    Author: Larkin, Edward T.
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  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... more

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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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    Contributor: Lewis, Virginia L.; Walter, Hugo; Allen, Carol
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781453916889
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    DDC Categories: 810
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 127
    Subjects: Schwarze Frau; Frauenroman; Kriminalroman; Migration <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  10. Becoming Fiction
    Author: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  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... more

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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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    Contributor: Larkin, Edward T.; Walter, Hugo; Gabor-Peirce, Olivia
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781453919187
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    DDC Categories: 830
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 131
    Subjects: Atheismus <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Dürrenmatt, Friedrich (1921-1990): Stoffe
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  11. Text in the Natural World
    Author: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  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... more

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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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    Contributor: Walter, Hugo; Larkin, Edward T.; Gregorio, Laurence A.
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781433137686
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    RVK Categories: EC 1850 ; EC 2490
    DDC Categories: 800
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 133
    Subjects: Literaturtheorie; Evolution; Literatur; Evolutionstheorie
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  12. Somnambulistic Lucidity
    Author: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  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... more

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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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    Contributor: Larkin, Edward T.; Walter, Hugo; Klaus, Eric J.
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781433138232
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    DDC Categories: 830
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 130
    Subjects: Schlafwandeln <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Meyrink, Gustav (1868-1932)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  13. Celebrating the Sacred in Ordinary Life
    Author: Larkin, Edward T.
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  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... more

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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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    Contributor: Lewis, Virginia L.; Walter, Hugo; Absher, Tom
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781433141744
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    DDC Categories: 820
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 134
    Subjects: Das Heilige; Hermetische Literatur
    Other subjects: Joyce, James (1882-1941)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  14. Mutating Idylls
    Author: Larkin, Edward T.
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Inc., New York ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Mutating Idylls examines the surprising presence of the antique literary topos of the idyllic landscape, the locus amoenus, in European literature from the latter half of the nineteenth century. The book sets out to identify how this topos, which... more

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    Mutating Idylls examines the surprising presence of the antique literary topos of the idyllic landscape, the locus amoenus, in European literature from the latter half of the nineteenth century. The book sets out to identify how this topos, which generally has no place in politically and socially realistic and naturalist literature, actually does have a role to play. Chapters on central nineteenth-century authors such as Flaubert, Zola, Fontane, Verga, Hamsun, Austen, Eliot, Wilde, Jiménez, Cernuda, and Galdós demonstrate both the presence and the multiple refunctionalizations of the locus amoenus. The theoretical aim of Mutating Idylls is to rehabilitate the notion of literary topos. This feature is present in the introduction as a possibility in literary studies today. The chapters all argue in the direction of a notion of topos, which is more flexible than the one Curtius defines along the lines of formula or cliché. In this way, the book intervenes in at least three major fields of study: nineteenth-century studies, classical philology, and literary theory. Through empirical analyses covering diverse authors who all, more or less unconsciously, use the locus amoenus, Mutating Idylls offers a new understanding of the culture of writing in the nineteenth century and contributes to literary theory a rehabilitation of the important notion of the topos.

     
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    Contributor: Lewis, Virginia L.; Walter, Hugo; Meiner, Carsten
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781433161698
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    DDC Categories: 800; 420
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 139
    Subjects: Literatur; Das Idyllische; Locus amoenus
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  15. La répétition dans les textes littéraires du Moyen Âge à nos jours
    Author: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Inc., New York ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Non nova, sed nove, ce proverbe latin, qui signifie « pas du nouveau, mais de nouveau », invite à voir la répétition comme une finalité à part entière. La vie est elle-même une perpétuelle répétition. Paradoxalement, la seule expérience qui n’a... more

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    Non nova, sed nove, ce proverbe latin, qui signifie « pas du nouveau, mais de nouveau », invite à voir la répétition comme une finalité à part entière. La vie est elle-même une perpétuelle répétition. Paradoxalement, la seule expérience qui n’a aucune chance de se répéter, c’est la mort. Est-ce dire que la répétition est partie prenante de la vie et, par ricochet, de l’imaginaire ? Mais quelles sont les modalités de la répétition dans les textes littéraires ? En tant que procédé de création, de quelles manières la répétition fonctionne-t-elle ? Quelle est l’intentionnalité de la répétition ? Cet ouvrage collectif comprend seize études qui explorent ces questionnements en proposant des analyses interdisciplinaires, longtemps attendues, de la répétition sur quatre périodes de l'histoire: le Moyen Âge, l’Ancien Régime, les époques moderne et contemporaine. Cette approche diachronique permet d’explorer les constances stylistiques, les variations, les reprises et les innovations. Les différentes perspectives des auteurs, guidées par leurs domaines d’expertise respectifs, créent une synergie qui stimule la réflexion autour de la notion de la répétition dans les textes français et francophones.

     
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    Contributor: Larkin, Edward T.; Walter, Hugo; Abd-elrazak, Loula; Dusaillant-Fernandes, Valérie
    Language: French
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781433158162
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    DDC Categories: 840
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 138
    Subjects: Französisch; Literatur; Wiederholung <Motiv>
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  16. Self-Realization
    Analysis of a Primary Literary Theme
    Author: Daemmrich, Horst
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Inc., New York ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    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... more

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    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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    Contributor: Larkin, Edward T. (Herausgeber); Walter, Hugo (Herausgeber); Lewis, Virginia L. (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781433187261
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    DDC Categories: 800; 420
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 141
    Subjects: Selbst <Motiv>; Selbstverwirklichung <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (202 Seiten)
  17. The Novels of Zsigmond Móricz in the Context of European Realism
    A Thematic Approach
    Author: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Inc., New York ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    The Novels of Zsigmond Móricz in the Context of European Realism is the first English-language monograph on one of Hungary’s—and Central Europe’s—most important modern authors. Using a thematic approach that privileges literary characters as... more

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    The Novels of Zsigmond Móricz in the Context of European Realism is the first English-language monograph on one of Hungary’s—and Central Europe’s—most important modern authors. Using a thematic approach that privileges literary characters as stand-ins for real human beings, Virginia L. Lewis investigates Móricz’s thematization of individual agency in seven realist novels that form the foundation of the author’s reputation as a major twentieth-century novelist. Lewis does an outstanding job of showcasing the research results of the many Hungarian scholars who have studied Móricz’s narrative output over the past century, while also bringing decidedly new perspectives to the table in introducing the author to an English-speaking audience. Utilizing the theoretical impulses of scholars such as Horst and Ingrid Daemmrich, Margaret Archer, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ibrahim Taha, among others, Lewis forges a new and productive path in Móricz scholarship, while also making his oeuvre accessible to a global audience. Any reader with an interest in Hungarian and Central European narrative will find this study enormously useful for the revelations it brings regarding Móricz’s poignant and brilliant critique of the corrosive influence of commodification and greed on human agency in modern society. "Informed by theory and grounded in a critical understanding of Hungarian social history in the first half of the twentieth century, Lewis’s engaging study of the realist novels of Zsigmond Móricz compels readers to think in new ways about questions of human agency amongst Hungary’s lower and middle classes as this played out against the backdrop of capitalist transformation and pronounced social conflicts and injustices in the decades leading up to World War II. Skillfully structured around succinct analyses of seven of Móricz’s key texts, Lewis’s book addresses a sizable gap in the English-language scholarship on one of Hungary’s greatest writers, and will be a welcome addition to the libraries of literary scholars and social and intellectual historians alike." —Steven Jobbitt, Associate Professor of Central and Eastern European History, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada... "Informed by theory and grounded in a critical understanding of Hungarian social history in the first half of the twentieth century, Lewis’s engaging study of the realist novels of Zsigmond Móricz compels readers to think in new ways about questions of human agency amongst Hungary’s lower and middle classes as this played out against the backdrop of capitalist transformation and pronounced social conflicts and injustices in the decades leading up to World War II. Skillfully structured around succinct analyses of seven of Móricz’s key texts, Lewis’s book addresses a sizable gap in the English-language scholarship on one of Hungary’s greatest writers, and will be a welcome addition to the libraries of literary scholars and social and intellectual historians alike." —Steven Jobbitt, Associate Professor of Central and Eastern European History, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada...

     
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    Contributor: Lewis, Virginia L. (Herausgeber); Walter, Hugo G. (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781433167744
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    DDC Categories: 890; 830
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 140
    Subjects: Roman; Realismus
    Other subjects: Móricz, Zsigmond (1879-1942)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (166 Seiten)
  18. Flames of passion, flames of greed
    acts of arson in German prose fiction 1850 - 1900
    Author: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Lang, New York u.a.

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  19. Becoming Fiction
    Reassessing Atheism in Dürrenmatt's «Stoffe»
    Contributor: Lewis, Virginia L. (Publisher); Larkin, Edward T. (Publisher); Walter, Hugo (Publisher)
    Published: 2018; © 2017
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

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    Contributor: Lewis, Virginia L. (Publisher); Larkin, Edward T. (Publisher); Walter, Hugo (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781453919187
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    Edition: 1st, New ed
    Subjects: Atheismus <Motiv>
    Other subjects: 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
  20. Text in the Natural World
    Topics in the Evolutionary Theory of Literature
    Contributor: Lewis, Virginia L. (Publisher); Walter, Hugo (Publisher); Larkin, Edward T. (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

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    Contributor: Lewis, Virginia L. (Publisher); Walter, Hugo (Publisher); Larkin, Edward T. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781433137686
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    RVK Categories: EC 1850 ; EC 2490 ; EC 2500
    Edition: 1st, New ed
    Subjects: Literaturtheorie; Evolutionstheorie; Literatur; Evolution
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (232 Seiten)
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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
  21. Somnambulistic Lucidity
    The Sleepwalker in the Works of Gustav Meyrink
    Contributor: Lewis, Virginia L. (Publisher); Larkin, Edward T. (Publisher); Walter, Hugo (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

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    Contributor: Lewis, Virginia L. (Publisher); Larkin, Edward T. (Publisher); Walter, Hugo (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781433138232
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    Edition: 1st, New ed
    Subjects: LCO008000; Schlafwandeln <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Meyrink, Gustav (1868-1932)
    Scope: 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
  22. The novels of Zsigmond Móricz in the context of European realism
    a thematic approach
    Author: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, New York ; Berlin ; Brussels ; Lausanne ; Oxford

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    ISBN: 9781433167683; 1433167689
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    RVK Categories: EK 2805
    Series: Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; vol. 140
    Subjects: Roman; Realismus
    Other subjects: 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
    Scope: 152 Seiten, 21 cm x 14.8 cm
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    Literaturverzeichnis Seite 145-148
  23. Globalizing the peasant
    access to land and the possibility of self-realization
    Author: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Lexington Books, Lanham, MD [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 9780739109533
    Subjects: Peasants in literature; Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern; Bauer <Motiv>; Landleben <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: XXXVIII, 277 S.
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    acts of arson in German prose fiction 1850 - 1900
    Author: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Lang, New York [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 0820415006
    Series: Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; 2
    Subjects: Epik; Betrug <Motiv>; Rache <Motiv>; Deutsch
    Scope: XVI, 251 S.
  25. Flames of passion, flames of greed
    acts of arson in German prose fiction 1850 - 1900
    Author: Lewis, Virginia L.
    Published: 1991
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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 0820415006
    DDC Categories: 430; 830
    Series: Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; Vol. 2
    Subjects: Deutsch; Epik; Rache <Motiv>; Deutsch; Epik; Betrug <Motiv>
    Scope: 251 S., 23 cm
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