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ERMÄCHTIGUNG DES PUBLIKUMS UND ENTMÄCHTIGUNG DES KÜNSTLERS: GENIEDISKURSE DER NACHROMANTIK MIT BLICK AUF DEN FRÜHEN MOZARTKULT UND GRILLPARZER 授权观众和剥夺艺术家的权力:对早期时尚崇拜对象的浪漫论调和直销
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GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS Pub Date : 2022-06-28 DOI: 10.1111/glal.12345
Werner Michler
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GENIE UND KLASSE: ROBERT BURNS UND DIE WIENER SOZIALDEMOKRATIE UM 1900 天才与成就:1900年的罗伯特伯恩斯和维也纳社会民主
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GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS Pub Date : 2022-06-23 DOI: 10.1111/glal.12348
Paul Keckeis
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DAS GENIE IM SCHAFFEN NIETZSCHES 聪明的尼奇人才
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GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS Pub Date : 2022-06-23 DOI: 10.1111/glal.12347
Sebastian Kaufmann
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NACH DEM SCHICKSAL: NAPOLEON BEI HEINE UND TOLSTOJ 拿破仑和托尔斯泰
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GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS Pub Date : 2022-06-18 DOI: 10.1111/glal.12343
Jan Niklas Howe
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‘ES IST EINE DESOLATE IDEE, GENIE WERDEN ZU WOLLEN’: ZUM BÖRSENWERT DES BEGRIFFS GENIE BEI NESTROY 正如尼斯托利所说的“天赋”论的证物
IF 0.2 3区 文学
GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS Pub Date : 2022-06-18 DOI: 10.1111/glal.12341
Arno Dusini
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SCHATTEN- UND LICHTSEITEN DER GENIETHEORIE OTTO WEININGERS 来自于天才理论奥托·温宁格斯的影子和光明
IF 0.2 3区 文学
GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS Pub Date : 2022-06-18 DOI: 10.1111/glal.12346
Jacques Le Rider
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NEUE MENSCHEN, NEUE POETEN: EXPRESSIONISMUS, GENIE UND ARBEITERDICHTUNG "表现主义,天才与工人诗篇
IF 0.2 3区 文学
GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS Pub Date : 2022-06-18 DOI: 10.1111/glal.12342
Annika Hildebrandt
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‘SCHÖNE JUGENDLICHE MÄDCHENKÖPFE’: GENDER AND ‘GENIE’ IN LOU ANDREAS-SALOMÉ’S MENSCHENKINDER 美丽的青年mädchenköpfe”:性别和“天才”在卢ANDREAS-SALOMÉ’S儿女
IF 0.2 3区 文学
GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS Pub Date : 2022-05-27 DOI: 10.1111/glal.12349
Marlen Mairhofer
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INTRODUCTION: PRE-ROMANTIC AND POST-ROMANTIC GENIUS 简介:前浪漫主义和后浪漫主义的天才
IF 0.2 3区 文学
GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS Pub Date : 2022-05-26 DOI: 10.1111/glal.12344
Deborah Holmes
{"title":"INTRODUCTION: PRE-ROMANTIC AND POST-ROMANTIC GENIUS","authors":"Deborah Holmes","doi":"10.1111/glal.12344","DOIUrl":"10.1111/glal.12344","url":null,"abstract":"<p>‘Genius’ is an eye-catching, resonant expression to include in any title, be it of a book, film or exhibition, whether factual or fiction, popular or scholarly. Its fascination persists in academia despite repeated announcements of its demise as a term in serious critical debate. Generations of influential thinkers have sought to discredit and deconstruct it, presenting it as an ahistorical means of obscuring the workings of culture or else as a reactionary fetish that lends itself all too readily to political appropriation.1 Nevertheless, it survives effortlessly, due in large part to its versatility or rather <i>de facto</i> opacity; genius defies definition, while maintaining a wide spectrum of highly evocative associations. Although it fell out of general use or else was considered unviable in aesthetics and literary criticism post-1945, it periodically returns as a term of justification and approbation, if not of analysis or explanation;2 in other disciplines, most notably psychology, it is currently thriving (again).3 There has also been a recent resurgence of interest in its history as a discursive phenomenon, interest which, understandably, has tended to examine its emergence as a modern concept in the eighteenth century, or else its refinement and universalisation during Romanticism.4 This special number focuses instead on the period which gave genius a bad name with critical theorists in the first place: the nineteenth century.5 We begin at the point most studies see its discursive power waning, around 1830,6 and carry our investigation through to the early twentieth century. And while acknowledging that intense international dialogue and exchange played a vital role in the crystallisation of genius as a modern concept, we also seek to implement the insight of Joyce E. Chaplin and Darrin M. McMahon who note that ‘genius has performed specific cultural work within each of the societies in which it has had a historical presence’.7 The appeal and survival of genius may be due to its seemingly universal applicability, potentially in all spheres of activity, transcending cultural boundaries.8 As literary and cultural historians, however, it is incumbent on us to relativise its fascination; our special number is therefore made up of localised studies, considering theories, uses and ‘manifestations’ of genius within their particular discursive contexts.9</p><p>The German term ‘Genie’ has a very particular history within the general history of genius. Over the course of the 1700s, genius – ‘génie’, ‘genio’, ‘Genie’ – was established throughout Europe, primarily as a designation for exceptional creative power, but increasingly also for individuals considered to possess such power. Stemming from the Latin <i>genius</i> and <i>ingenium</i>, the term itself was not, of course, new: its extraordinary proliferation and evolution during the classicist eighteenth century were due in no small part to this distinguished ancestry.10 Originally denoting","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":"75 3","pages":"327-340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glal.12344","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45563154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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ERNST TOLLER SPEAKS AT THE WORLD CONGRESS OF WRITERS IN NEW YORK, 8–10 MAY 1939 1939年5月8日至10日,恩斯特·托勒在纽约世界作家大会上发表讲话
IF 0.2 3区 文学
GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS Pub Date : 2022-03-03 DOI: 10.1111/glal.12340
Karina von Tippelskirch
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