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Grete Meisel-Hess
This first book in English on Meisel-Hess, an early feminist voice in modernist discourse, illustrates the dynamic interplay between gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity in Austrian and German modernism.Grete Meisel-Hess (1879-1922), a contemporary of Freud, Schnitzler, and Klimt, was a feminist voice in early-twentieth-century modernist discourse. Born in Prague to Jewish parents and raised in Vienna, she became a literary presence with her 1902 novel Fanny Roth. Influenced by many of her contemporaries, she also criticized their notions of gender and sexuality. Relocating to Berlin, she continued to write fiction and began publishing on sexology and the women's movement.Helga Thorson's book combines a literary-cultural exploration of modernism in Vienna and Berlin with a biography of Meisel-Hess and a critical analysis of her works. Focusing on Meisel-Hess's negotiations of feminism, modernism, and Jewishness, it illustrates the dynamic interplay between gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity in Austrian and German modernism. Analyzing Meisel-Hess's fiction as well as her sexological studies, Thorson argues that Meisel-Hess posited herself as both a "New Woman" and the writer of the "New Woman."The book draws on extensive archival research that uncovered a large number of new sources, including an unpublished drama and a variety of documents and letters scattered in collections across Europe. Until now there have been only limited secondary sources about Meisel-Hess, most containing errors and omissions regarding her biography. This is the first book on Meisel-Hess in English.
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Counterrevolution
The flow and counter flow of revolution and counterrevolution have become the norm of the twentieth century. In this fascinating and well-rounded volume, the author illuminates the revolutionary process as it has developed from antiquity to the present day, from the vantage points of political science, history, and sociology. Meisel's work is presented in the form of twelve absorbing episodes in the history of Western civilization. His remarkable for the detail with which he approaches a subject often difficult to define and even more difficult to explain. He suggests a new and highly useful perspective of history by viewing it as a process of revolution and counterrevolution and their transitional stages. As it is the nature of revolutions to fall short of their objectives and to enjoy only a brief heyday that becomes the stereotype accepted by posterity, the author emphasizes their antithetical closing phases--whose lessons posterity tends to forget. Meisel's belief is that second-echelon figures teach us more about the natural process of revolution than the atypical "men of destiny," and he illustrates his account with many portrayals of comparative unknowns who lived through all the stages of revolution and counterrevolution. But revolutions can also be aborted or be preceded by counterrevolutions, as Meisel demonstrates by enlightening analyses of Mussolini's coup d'utat, the origins of the Spanish Civil War, and General de Gaulle's defeat of a potential army insurrection in behalf of French Algeria. In this profound and wide-ranging work, Meisel achieves an admirable balance between theory, action, and biography. The result is a unique survey of revolutionary history, in which a sophisticated thinker provides on almost every page a deepening understanding of the problems of revolution for the scholar and student of political processes, political theory, and comparative politics. The reader with a lively interest in the modus operandi of history will also find this book compelling reading.
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Suchende Seelen (Vollst�ndige Ausgabe)
Grete Meisel-He� (1879-1922) war eine �sterreichische Schriftstellerin und Frauenrechtlerin. Aus dem Buch: "Sie fing an, die Umrisse zu erkennen, die ihr bis jetzt verschwommen gewesen waren. Mit starren Augen sah sie hin, wie es sich reckte und dehnte und langsam die m�chtige Pranke hob. Ein riesiges, sphinxhaftes Unget�m hinter tausend wirren, d�steren Schleiern, die nur der Blick durchdringt, den das Leid gesch�rft ... �berall sah sie es jetzt. Wie die Menschen sich abm�hten, den Kolo� zu erklimmen! Und er lie� sie an sich heran. Und sie klommen, in Schwei� und Blut gebadet, rastlos, unerm�dlich. Es hielt still, mit steinernem L�cheln. Aber was sie nicht merkten, war, da� es ihnen heimlich, langsam, stetig die besten Kr�fte stahl. Und wenn sie dort waren, wo sie hingewollt und hingemu�t, dann fielen sie zusammen wie morscher Zunder." Inhalt: - Das Leid - Die L�ge - Krisis
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How Plays Work
Why are readers who are generally at home with narrative and discursive prose, and even readily responsive to poetry, far less confident and intuitive when it comes to plays? The complication lies in the twofold character of the play as it exists on the page - as a script or score to be realized, and as literature. Martin Meisel's engaging account of how we read play plays on the page shows that the path to the fullest imaginative response is an understanding of howplays work. What is entailed is something like learning a language - vocabulary, grammar, syntax - but learning also how the language operates in those concrete situations where it is deployed.Meisel begins with a look at matters often taken for granted in coding and convention, and then - under 'Beginnings' - at what is entailed in establishing and entering the invented world of the play. Each succeeding chapter is a gesture at enlarging the scope: 'Seeing and Hearing', 'The Uses of Place', 'The Role of the Audience', 'The Shape of the Action', and 'The Action of Words'. The final chapters, 'Reading Meanings' and 'Primal Attractions', explore ways in which both the drive forsignificant understanding and the appetite for wonder can and do find satisfaction and delight. Cultivated in tone and jargon-free, How Plays Work is illuminated by dozens of judiciously chosen examples from western drama - from classical Greek dramatists to contemporary playwrights, both canonical and relatively obscure. It will appeal as much to the serious student of the theatre as to the playgoer who likes to read a play before seeing it performed.
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Literary Freud
In this book, Perry Meisel argues that Freud's texts are properly literary, and casts Freud as both literary theoretician and practitioner. Here, after an introductory reception history of Freud as literature, Meisel provides a series of close readings of Freud's major texts that take literary representation as their central focus. As for Freud's influence on others, it, too, is structured like a literary history, argues Meisel. He discusses Freud's influence on modernism, Strachey's Standard Edition (once again the subject of debate with the recent Penguin retranslations), and Freud's influence on Michel Foucault. Finally, we explore the relationship of Freud and literature. Does an understanding of how Freud himself writes and influences help us to read literature and interpret it anew?
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Realizations
In this richly illustrated study of the relationship of art, drama, and fiction in the nineteenth century, Martin Meisel illuminates the collaboration between storytelling and picturemaking that informed narrative painting, pictorial dramaturgy, and serial illustrated fiction. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Intellektuellen
Aus dem Buch: "Olga war in der verflossenen Nacht durch jene unerwartete und au�ergew�hnliche Begegnung an das schmerzlichste Erlebnis ihrer Jugend erinnert worden. Diese "Jugend" schien f�r sie selbst hinter ihr zu liegen, und, was das Seltsame war, sie beklagte das nicht. Denn ihr war, als h�tte sie sich all ihre "Jugend" hindurch gegen niederziehende, schwerlastende M�chte zur Wehr gesetzt, als h�tte sie ihre ganze, junge Kraft gegen den Druck eines dunklen Schicksals stemmen m�ssen, bis es endlich, endlich ein wenig lichter und freier um sie geworden war." Grete Meisel-He� (1879-1922) verheiratete Gellert, war eine �sterreichische Schriftstellerin.
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Gesammelte Werke
Grete Meisel-Heß (1879 - 1922) war eine österreichische Schriftstellerin und Frauenrechtlerin. Inhalt: - Suchende Seelen: - Das Leid - Die Lüge - Krisis - Weiberhaß und Weiberverachtung - Die sexuelle Krise - Fanny Roth (Eine Jung - Frauengeschichte) - Die Intellektuellen - Eine sonderbare Hochzeitsreise - Die Libelle - Die Lösung - Der Retter - Die Verratene - Sünde - Zwei vergnügte Tage
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Realizations
In this richly illustrated study of the relationship of art, drama, and fiction in the nineteenth century, Martin Meisel illuminates the collaboration between storytelling and picturemaking that informed narrative painting, pictorial dramaturgy, and serial illustrated fiction. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Die sexuelle Krise
Aus dem Buch: "Diese Arbeit befaßt sich mit einem Thema, über welches dermalen mehr geredet und geschrieben wird, als vielleicht über jedes andere. Wenn aber so viel geredet wird von einer Sache, so ist das immer ein Zeichen großer Not durch sie. So wie der menschliche Körper nur dann gesund ist, wenn man seine einzelnen Teile nicht spürt, so der gesellschaftliche Organismus, wenn sich seine einzelnen Probleme nicht allzusehr aus dem Gesamtgefüge herausheben. Und wenn Hunderte von Stimmen über einer einzigen Frage laut werden, so ist das keinesfalls eine Modeströmung, sondern Not, die nach Ausdruck ringt." Inhalt: - Kritik der Ehe in ihrer heutigen Gestalt - Das Wesen der ehelichen Gemeinschaft - Das legitime Moment der Ehe - Das soziale Moment der Ehe - Das Suggestionsmoment der Ehe - Kant und die Metaphysik der Sitten - Völkergeschichtliches zur Moralfrage - Die Errichtung von Extremforderungen - Vom Wesen der Liebe - Liebesspiel - Das Dämonium der Liebe - Der Liebeshaß - Liebesnot - Wesen und Ursprung der Prostitution - Die Nötigung zur Prostitution - Die melancholische Travestie - Der Geldpunkt - Zur Reform der Prostitution - Ursprung und Notwendigkeit der Frauenbewegung - Die Bekämpfung der Frauenbewegung - Die Berechtigung zum tätigen Leben - Die schädigenden Momente der Frauenbewegung - Allgemeine Rassenprobleme - Der Sexualkampf - Sozialismus und Selektionstheorie - Zeugungsreformation - Psychologie des Geschlechtskampfes - Geschlechtspsychologie des Mannes - Kapitel - Die Berechtigung zum Sexualleben - Die Ursachen des Elends - Das besondere Sexualelend der Frau - Die psychopathischen Folgen des sexuellen Elends - Resolutionen - Grete Meisel-Heß (1879 - 1922) war eine österreichische Schriftstellerin und Frauenrechtlerin.
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Liebe im Zeitalter der Wissenschaften vom Menschen
Der Physiker, Psychologe, Ingenieur, Offizier und Schriftsteller Robert Musil schreibt Literatur mit Herrschaftsanspruch. Er verfolgt das Ziel, in der Literatur das gesamte Wissen seiner Zeit zu konzentrieren und zu übertrumpfen. Dabei geht Musil von der Annahme aus, daß sich alle kurrenten Sprach- und Wissensordnungen beim "gesprächigsten" Thema treffen: der Liebe. Kunst wird schon beimfrühen Musil zur exakten Wissenschaft, und sein unvollendeter Roman "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften" ist ein Spiegelbild der Welt imentropischen Verfall."(...) Perhaps the most brilliant and original comprehensive study of Musil of recent years is Gerhard Meisel's monograph of 1991. (...)"Distinguished outsider: Robert Musil and his critics, Columbia 1994
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Capital as Literature
Studies of Marx, particularly of his masterwork Capital (1867), are as a rule tutelary—they attempt to explain him. Even literary readers of Marx from Raymond Williams to Fredric Jameson seek to secure Marxist tenets by means of Marxian style. ‘Capital’ as Literature: Marx Against Himself departs from this tradition by reading Capital as literary in its own right rather than as political economy with style as its filigree rather than its focus. Here Marx emerges in a different light. If literature is writing that calls whatever is settled into question, then Marx's writing is literature, not because of its revolutionary program, but because Marx's rhetoric, particularly its key trope of chiasmus, undoes the coherence of the notions it propounds, especially in Capital. Marx's chiasmatic style turns Capital into a mise en abyme and Marx's enterprise into an example of what it describes rather than its foil or antidote: the structure of capital itself. Capital, like capital, is a self-begetting production machine whose fungibility as a form is one and the same with the money economy it unravels. ‘Capital’ as Literature: Marx Against Himself shows how this irony unfolds and what the implications are for epistemology, cultural studies, and literary criticism.
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Myth of Popular Culture
The Myth of Popular Culture In this fascinating examination of popular culture, esteemed cultural critic Perry Meisel shatters conventionally held notions about the division between “high” and “low” culture with the provocative theory that popular culture has sustained dialectical rhythms. Meisel’s deft critical analysis of three enduring cultural traditions — the American novel, Hollywood, and British and American rock music — leads us to question the very concept of the division between “high” and “low” culture. Meisel begins his engaging discussion by refuting philosopher Theodor Adorno’s assertion that “high” culture is “dialectical” and “pop” is not, showing that popular culture does indeed have a conversation both with its sources and with cultural authority as a whole. In the final section, Meisel turns his attention to Bob Dylan, a figure who, more than any other, shows what it means to synthesize and revise all traditions — music, poetry, iconography — and transform them completely. Brilliantly conceived and clearly articulated, The Myth of Popular Culture from Dante to Dylan redefines the way in which we think about all forms of artistic expression.
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Cowboy and the Dandy
What is rock and roll and where does it come from? In this new study of music, literature, and culture, Perry Meisel shows how rock and roll joins both Romanticism and the blues tradition by testing the boundaries they share: boundaries between freedom and irony, between country and city, between the iconic figures of cowboy (e.g. John Wayne) and dandy (e.g. Oscar Wilde). In a series of startling juxtapositions, Meisel looks at rhythm and blues, Emerson and the cowboy, urban blues, the dandy and 60's psychedelia, Willa Cather, Miles Davis, and Virginia Woolf. In the process, Meisel shows how "popular" and "high" culture are hardly fixed categories, and in fact share deep roots each vainly affects to disdain.
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