Stefan Zweig and World Literature: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives

Book

Stefan Zweig and World Literature

Twenty-First-Century Perspectives

Edited by: Birger Vanwesenbeeck and Mark H. Gelber
With contributions by: Birger Vanwesenbeeck , Darién J Davis , Geoffrey Winthrop-Young , Jeffrey Berlin , John Warren , Klaus Weissenberger , Klemens Renoldner , Mark H. Gelber , Marlen Eckl , Richard V. Benson , Robert Kelz and Robert Weldon Whalen

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2015

Published by

View more publications by Boydell and Brewer

To Publisher Page

This book is in the series

Volume 158 | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

About this book

A new critical assessment of the works of the Austrian-Jewish author, in whom there has been a recent resurgence of interest, from the perspective of world literature.

Topics

Literary Studies German Literature German Literature, general

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Birger Vanwesenbeeck and Mark H. Gelber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Reception
1: A Stefan Zweig Revival? Birger Vanwesenbeeck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Part II. Drama and Fiction
2: Stefan Zweig’s Drama Jeremias in Context John Warren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3: “That Voice in the Darkness!”: Technologies of the Tropical Talking Cure in Stefan Zweig’s Der Amokläufer and Verwirrung der Gefühle Geoffrey Winthrop-Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
4: Narrating Alterity: Stefan Zweig, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Trauma of Redemption Robert Weldon Whalen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Part III. Criticism and Essays
5: Stefan Zweig and the Concept of World Literature Mark H. Gelber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
6: Landscape, “Heimat,” and Artistic Production: Stefan Zweig’s Introduction to E. M. Lilien: Sein Werk Richard V. Benson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
7: Stefan Zweig’s Non-fictional Prose in Exile: Mastery of the European Genre of “Kunstprosa” Klaus Weissenberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Part IV. Politics and Exile
8: True to Himself: Stefan Zweig’s Visit to Argentina in September 1936 Robert Kelz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
9: Exile and Liminality in “A Land of the Future”: Charlotte and Stefan Zweig in Brazil, August 1941–March 1942 Darién J. Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
10: Stefan Zweig’s Concept of Brazil in the Context of German-Jewish Emigration Marlen Eckl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
11: Stefan Zweig: Life in Cities of Exile Klemens Renoldner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
12: The Writer’s Political Obligations in Exile: The Case of Stefan Zweig Jeffrey B. Berlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
Notes on the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259

Publishing information

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

March 15, 2015

eBook ISBN:

9781782044253

Original publisher:

Camden House

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Main content:

278

Other:

5 b/w illus.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782044253

eBook ISBN: 9781782044253

Keywords for this book

fascism; Hitler; Nazis; The World of Yesterday

Audience(s) for this book

Professional and scholarly;

Stefan Zweig and World Literature

Overview

About this book

Topics

Table of contents

Bibliographic data