London Fragments: A Literary Expedition (Armchair Traveller)

Meet Shakespeare, Heine and Hogarth south of the river, find Virginia Woolf in Bloomsbury, discovers Blake and Trollope in Westminster, happen on the Carlyles in Chelsea, come across John Keats in beautiful Hampstead and search for Bacon and Hanif Kureishi in the London suburbs.

Literature & Fiction

Görner, Rüdiger

History & Criticism

Haus Publishing

The Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) achieved global fame with his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. In this first English-language biography, Rüdiger Görner depicts the artist in all his fascinating and contradictory complexity. He traces Kokoschka's path from bête noire of the bourgeoisie and "hunger artist" who had to flee the Nazis to a wealthy and cosmopolitan political and critical artist who played a significant role in shaping the European art scene of the twentieth century and whose relevance is undiminished to this day.&nbsp; In&nbsp;Kokoschka: A Life in Art, Görner emphasizes the artist's versatility. Kokoschka, although best known for his expressionistic portraits and landscapes, was more than a mere visual artist: his achievements as a playwright, essayist, and poet bear witness to a remarkable literary talent. Music, too, played a central role in his work, and a passion for teaching led him to establish in 1953 the School of Seeing, an unconventional art school intended to revive humanist ideals in the horrific aftermath of war.&nbsp; This biography shows brilliantly how all the pieces of Kokoschka's disparate interests and achievements cohered in the richly creative life of a singular artist.

Kokoschka: The Untimely Modernist

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

For some time now, incentives have been coming out of anglophone German language and literature studies that have a significant effect on the field in Germany. With the creation of Angermion, a forum has been established which brings the fruitful interaction within European German studies to light and focuses on the exciting and symbiotic German-British cultural relationships existing since the 18th century. Research studies in literary, linguistic and cultural criticism, translations, myths, prejudices, bilateral institutions, theater, music and pop culture are bundled together into main focus topics and supplemented by reviews of relevant new publications. Thus, the yearbook reflects a broad spectrum of intercultural processes of transfer and their change over time and, at the same time, accentuates the latest scientific debates in the humanities. The contributions are published in English and are directed towards experts in anglophone German studies abroad, as well as specialists in German studies, Anglicists, and cultural scientists working interculturally in German-speaking countries.

Angermion Volume 2: 2009 (German and English Edition)

de Gruyter

Angermion 2010: Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism, Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers (English and German Edition)

Reference

Thomas Mann Im Anderen

Boston : De Gruyter

Thomas Mann im Anderen: Seine biographierenden Essay-Bilder (German Edition)

Poetik des Deutens: Aufsätze zur Ästhetik literarischer Kritik (German Edition)

Poetik Des Deutens

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