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Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her many books include Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood and Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany (both Princeton). Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household...
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The sibling stands out as a ubiquitous-yet unacknowledged-conceptual touchstone across the European long nineteenth century. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, Europeans embarked on a new way of classifying the world, devising genealogies that determined degrees of relatedness by tracing heritage through common ancestry. This methodology organized historical systems into family trees in a wide array of new disciplines, transforming into siblings...
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The eight papers in this volume were originally presented at the centennial conference on Franz Kafka held at the University of Calgary in October 1983. As diverse in approach and methodology as these papers are "the general drift of the volume is away from Germanistik towards 'state-of-the-art' methods." The opening articles by Charles Bernheimer and James Rolleston both deal with the similarities and contrasts between Kafka and Flaubert, with Bernheimer...
384) Goodnight, My Love!
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English Punjabi Gurmukhi (India) Bilingual Children's Book. Perfect for kids learning English or Punjabi Gurmukhi (India) as their second language. "Goodnight, My Love!" by Shelley Admont won the Gold Medal in 2019 Readers' Favorite annual international book award in the Children - General category Alex finds it hard to go to sleep, so he starts making up excuses. After reading a bedtime story, his father suggests planning a dream that he would like...
385) The war outside
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Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
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Improve your French and expand your vocabulary with topics that matter.When it comes to mastering a foreign language, reading around your interests makes all the difference. But finding books designed for language learners can be hard! This book fixes that. For the first time, you'll learn to improve your French while reading about the history of World War II."I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times...
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Are you looking to take your German language skills to the next level? Look no further than "3000+ German Conversation Starters"! This comprehensive book features over 3000 conversation starters across 50 diverse topics, ranging from languages and climate change to German cuisine and interior design. Whether you're a teacher seeking creative ways to inspire classroom discussions or an independent learner looking to expand your German vocabulary and...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
C'est l'imaginaire des vocations, de l'héroïsme artistique et du pouvoir des images, tel qu'on le trouve dans les biographies d'artistes, qui est l'objet de L'Image de l'artiste. Cet essai doit beaucoup au contexte intellectuel particulier de l'histoire de l'art à Vienne dans les années...
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur L'Image...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Quel livre en apparence plus impersonnel qu'un manuel de sources, qu'une vaste compilation des écrits sur l'art, de l'Antiquité à la fin de l'époque moderne? La Littérature artistique de Julius von Schlosser (1866-1938) est pourtant un livre difficile à détacher de la personnalité de...
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur La Littérature...
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Ernst Jünger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important-and most controversial-writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of Steel, he frankly depicted war's horrors even as he extolled its glories. As a Wehrmacht captain during World War II, Jünger faithfully kept a journal in occupied Paris and continued to write on the eastern front and in Germany until its defeat-writings...
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In Precarious Times, Anne Fuchs explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the profound temporal anxieties precipitated by contemporary experiences of atomization, displacement, and fragmentation that bring about a loss of history and of time itself and that is peculiar to our current moment. The digital age places premiums on just-in-time deliveries, continual innovation, instantaneous connectivity, and around-the-clock...
392) I Love Autumn
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English Bengali Bilingual Children's Book. Perfect for kids studying English or Bengali as their second language.
In this children's book, Jimmy, the little bunny, explores autumn, his favorite season. He enjoys being outside and playing with colorful leaves. When it starts raining, he and his family find interesting activities to do at home. They spend a wonderful day together, no matter the weather.
393) Mein Kampf d'Adolf Hitler (Analyse de l'oeuvre): Comprendre la littérature avec lePetitLittéraire.fr
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Décryptez Mein Kampf d'Adolf Hitler avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !
Que faut-il retenir de Mein Kampf, considéré comme le manifeste du nazisme ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cet ouvrage dans une analyse complète et détaillée.
Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :
• Un résumé complet
• Des éclairages sur la biographie d'Hitler, le contexte historique et de rédaction du texte
• Une analyse des spécificités...
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Fondée à la fin du xix e siècle par Franz Wickhoff et Aloïs Riegl, l'école viennoise d'histoire de l'art a formé des chercheurs importants: Fritz Saxl, Max Dvořák ou encore Otto Pächt, un de ses derniers représentants. Julius von Schlosser (1866-1938), à la fois conservateur au ...
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Histoire...
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Alexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteur television programming, he has also co-written three acclaimed volumes of critical theory, published countless essays and numerous works of fiction, and continues to make films even as he expands his video production to the internet. Despite Kluge's five decades of work in philosophy, literature, television,...
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Around 1800, German romanticism developed a philosophy this study calls "Romantic organology." Scientific and philosophical notions of biological function and speculative thought converged to form the discourse that Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs-a metaphysics meant to theorize, and ultimately alter, the structure of a politically and scientifically destabilized world.
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Want to Introduce Your Kids to the Basics of German Alphabets?Curious about How They Sound?Enhance your reading experience with our complimentary audio recordings. Follow the link provided inside the book to not just read, but also listen and immerse yourself in German pronunciation.Experience the joy of learning German through our vibrant picture book!Highlights Inside the Book: German Alphabets.German Words.English Translations.English Transliteration...
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"The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Helene Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekked...
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Auf deutsch reisen: Pratique et facile!
Découvrez comment voyager en allemand: au départ, de l'aéroport au centre ville, à l'htel, au restaurant, et bien d'autres
Un ebook pratique et malin qui répondra rapidement à toutes vos questions sur ce sujet.
Avec plus de 300 titres parus, la collection "Petit Guide" vous propose de découvrir l'essentiel des sujets les plus passionnants et répond à vos questions sur l'histoire, les sciences,...
400) Sebald's Vision
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W.G. Sebald's writing has been widely recognized for its intense, nuanced engagement with the Holocaust, the Allied bombing of Germany in WWII, and other episodes of violence throughout history. Through his inventive use of narrative form and juxtaposition of image and text, Sebald's work has offered readers new ways to think about remembering and representing trauma. In Sebald's Vision, Carol Jacobs examines the author's prose, novels, and poems,...
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