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Musikstädte as real and imaginary soundscapes: urban musical images as literary motifs in twentieth-century German modernism
No full textPhDThis study examines German literary images of musical life as part of the wider sound identity of the modern German city at the turn of the twentieth century. Focussing on a forty-year period from 1890 to 1930, synonymous with the emergence of the modern German metropolis as an aesthetic object, the project assesses, compares and contrasts how musical life in the Musikstädte was perceived and portrayed by writers in an increasingly noisy urban environment. How does urban musical life influence and condition city writings? What are the differences and similarities between the writings on various musical cities? Can an urban textual sound identity be derived from these differences and similarities? The approach employed to answer these questions is a new, cross-disciplinary one to urban sound in literature, moving beyond reading the key sounds of the urban soundscape using urban musicology, sensorial anthropology and cultural poetics towards a literary contextualisation of the urban aural experience.
The literary motifs of the symphony, the gramophone and urban noise are put under the spotlight through the analysis of a wide range of modernist works by authors who have a special relationship with music. At the centre of this analysis are the Kaffeehausliteratur authors Hermann Bahr, Alfred Polgar and Peter Altenberg, the then Munich-based author Thomas Mann and the lesser known René Schickele. The analysis of these particular works is framed in the music-geographical context of the Musikstadt and literary underpinnings of this topos, ranging from Ingeborg Bachmann to Hans Mayer and, once again, Thomas Mann. In analysing these texts, the methodological approach devised by Strohm, who identifies the blending of a range of urban sounds as a definition of urban space and identity, is applied. His ideas combine historical literary
analysis, musical history and urban sociology. They are rarely used in the analysis of the auditory environment.Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Vergleichende Analyse der Leitmotive in „Siddhartha“ von Hermann Hesse und in „Der Erwählte“ von Thomas Mann
No full textIm Folgenden versuche ich zwei Werke, „Der Erwählte“ von Thomas Mann und „Siddhartha“ von Hermann Hesse zu interpretieren, die die Wegsuche, Liebe und Ethik in zwei verschiedenen Kulturen darstellen. Obwohl die Motivationen von Grigorß und Siddhartha unterschiedlich sind, können die Stationen ihrer Wegsuche in Parallele gebracht werden. Natürlich gibt es solche Faktoren, die den Vergleich eingrenzen. Ich ziehe auch diese in Betracht und stelle auch die Unterschiede zwischen den beiden Werken dar.BKnémetegyetem
Thomas Grisell letter to Thomas Rotch, 2nd mo 19th 1823
No full textThomas Grisell's letter reached the Rotch household several months before the unexpected death of Thomas Rotch in August, 1823. This is the last letter of the series and presumably the author learned of his friend's death before another letter was penned. 7.95" x 10" (20.2 by 25.5 cm
Mathematics in literature: modernist interrelations in novels by Thomas Pynchon, Hermann Broch, and Robert Musil
Full text linkThe focus of this thesis is on four novels’ illustrations of the parallels and
interrelations between the foundational crisis of mathematics and the political, linguistic, and
epistemological crises around the turn to the twentieth century. While the latter crises with
their climax in the First World War are commonly agreed to define modern culture and
literature, this thesis concentrates on their relations with the ‘modernist transformation’ of
mathematics as illustrated in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day (2006) and Gravity’s
Rainbow (1973), Hermann Broch’s The Sleepwalkers (1930-1932), and Robert Musil’s The
Man without Qualities (1930/32). In the revaluation of mathematics during its foundational
crisis, the certainty and rationality of this most certain science is challenged, and the novels
accordingly employ mathematics as an example for the dramatic transformation of the
modern West, the wider loss of absolute truth, and the increasing scepticism towards
Enlightenment values. Crisis, however, also implied some freedoms and opportunities for
literature and criticism. When the developing modern notion of mathematics is defined by
autonomy and independence from the natural world, it bears traits more commonly
associated with literary fiction, and the novels examine the possible convergence of
mathematics and literature in the freedom of imaginary existence. The novels thus highlight
the unique position of the structural science mathematics in the relation of the (natural)
sciences and the humanities and suggest it to escape or straddle the perceived divide between
the disciplines. The examination and historicising of relations between fiction and
mathematical conceptualisations of the world as introduced in the major works by Pynchon,
Broch, and Musil thus also contributes to distinguishing the specific conditions of studying
mathematics in fiction in the wider field of literature and science
Kiri August Hermann Niemeyer'ile
Full text linkTychsen, Thomas Christian, 1758-1834, teoloog ja orientalist, prof. GöttingenisNiemeyer, August Hermann, 1754-1828, teoloog ja pedagoogPalub Chr. B. Michaelise dissertatsioonikäsikirjade väljaandmiseks luba või selle hankimist Michaelise pärandi valdajal
Portrait of Walter Godshaw, Charlie Sloan (Karl-Hermann Solomon), and Ida, Kaete Solomon's maid; Hannover, Germany.
No full textFrom left to right: Walter Gottschalk, Ida, Charlie Sloan (Karl Hermann Solomon); Ida, Kaete Solomon's maid, nursed Charlie back to health after his release from DachauDigital ImageThis photo is incorrectly labeled in Family Portrait, 1995; Original in possession of Thomas KrakauerWalter Godshaw, born 1920, died 1955; Charlie Sloan (Karl-Hermann Solomon), born 1920, died 198
Portrait of Walter Godshaw, Charlie Sloan (Karl-Hermann Solomon), and Ida, Kaete Solomon's maid; Hannover, Germany.
No full textFrom left to right: Walter Gottschalk, Ida, Charlie Sloan (Karl Hermann Solomon); Ida, Kaete Solomon's maid, nursed Charlie back to health after his release from DachauDigital ImageThis photo is incorrectly labeled in Family Portrait, 1995; Original in possession of Thomas KrakauerWalter Godshaw, born 1920, died 1955; Charlie Sloan (Karl-Hermann Solomon), born 1920, died 198
Failed Censures: Ecclesiastical Regulation of Women’s Clothing in Late Medieval Italy
No full textChurchmen in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries tried to regulate the costume of Italian women. These efforts failed, and regulation was largely left thereafter to civic authorities.The published version was published as Chapter 3 in Medieval Clothing and Textiles 5Izbicki, Thomas M. (2009), "Failed Censures: Ecclesiastical Regulation of Women’s Clothing in Late Medieval Italy" in Netherton, Robin and Owen-Crocker, Gale R., eds., Medieval Clothing and Textiles 5 (Boydell Press), 37-53ISBN: 9781843834519 (published book)Peer reviewe
D. Dieterich Hermann Kemmerichs Directoris des Ritter-Collegii zu Brandenburg Neu-eröffnete Academie Der Wissenschafften, Zu welchen Vornemlich Standes-Personen nützlich können angeführet, und zu einer vernünfftigen und wohlanständigen Conduite geschickt gemacht werden
No full textTitelbl. in Rot- und Schwarzdr.Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Leipzig, bey Thomas Fritschen, 1721
Western medieval legal manuscripts in the collections of the University of Pennsylvania
No full textWestern legal manuscripts of the Middle Ages in North American collections are among the least known to scholars. The University of Pennsylvania has a rich collection of these texts, several of which were in the collection of the historian Henry Charles Lea. Included are works of civil law and canon law, as well as collections of papal letters and guides to pastoral care. The descriptions of most of these manuscripts in the catalog of Norman P. Zacour and Rudolf Hirsch are perfunctory, sometimes erring or omitting valuable information. Other manuscripts were added in recent years in the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection. Much of this material is being added to the Franklin online catalog of the University’s libraries, but researchers frequently do not search these digital resources. This article provides more complete guidance to the University’s medieval legal manuscripts than any of the existing catalogs offers, whether in print or online. It also provides updated bibliographic information in print or online. Every manuscript has been examined by the author in situ. Among the important works represented in the collection is the Panormia (a work of canon law often attributed to Ivo of Chartres). Authors present include the curialist Thomas of Capua, canonists Petrus de Braco, William of Pagula, Bernardus Raimundi, Adam of Aldersbach, Raymond of Peñafort, and civil lawyers Baldus de Ubaldis, and Bartolus de Saxoferrato. Three of these manuscripts were owned in the past by Sir Thomas Phillipps
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