317 research outputs found
Kurt Kersten Collection 1939-1994
No full textPart I contains personal documents.Part II contains correspondence with newspapers, journals, publishers, and individuals, including Jakob Altmaier, Julius Bab, C.F.W. Behl, Eduard Benes, Joseph Bornstein, Elisabeth Castonier, Julius Deutsch, Alfred Doeblin, John Dos Passos, Lion Feuchtwanger, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Leonhard Frank, Claire Goll, Oscar Maria Graf, Babette L. Gross, Georg Grosz, Emil J. Gumbel, Willy Haas, Theodor Heuss, Kurt Hiller, Heinrich Eduard Jacob, Erich Kaestner, Alfred Kerr, Hermann Kesten, Gustav Kiepenheuer, Emil Ludwig, Erika Mann, Monika Mann, Thomas Mann, Ludwig Marcuse, Walter Mehring, H. L. Mencken, Martin Niemoeller, Franz Pfemfert, Jacob Picard, Kurt Pinthus, Erwin Piscator, Ernst Reuter, Ernst Rowohlt, Anna Seghers, Upton Sinclair, Dorothy Thompson, Fritz von Unruh, Veit Valentin, Bruno Weil, Thornton Wilder, and Duke Odo of Wuerttemberg. About half of the senders are Jewish and nearly all the senders are writers or politicians, refugees from Hitler persecution. The correspondence contains many reports about the years of persecution.Part III contains published and unpublished manuscripts. Manuscripts in this collection contain the following titles: Die Alte Deutsche ; Beloved Josephine ; Die Berghexe ; Black Antisemitism ; Encounter with Benjamin Franklin ; Das Ende von Willi Mienzenberger ; Die Ermordung Leo Trotskys ; Flucht aus Frankreich ; Jean Gallatin ; George Mandel ; Die Geschichte von Clothilde ; Die Geschwister ; Goethe und amerikanische Schriftsteller ; Der gute Priester von St.Pierre ; Helpers in Hell ; Höhepunkte der amerikanischen Literatur ; Der Kampf mit dem Tisch ; Lessing und die Freimaurer ; The Negropress in the U.S. ; Oskar Wildes Hotelwirt ; Der Tod auf der Insel, ein westindisches Tagebuch, 139p. There is also a manuscript with notes and supplementary correspondence concerning the last years of Rudolf Breitscheid and Rudolf Hilferding in Vichy France: Das Ende Rudolf Breitscheid und Rudolf Hilferdings (1957)Part IV contains material concerning the eighteenth-century naturalist and revolutionary Johann Georg Forster and on the author Robert Breuer, a close friend of Kersten who died in Martinique.Part V is a large collection of newspaper essays by Kurt Kersten from 1937 to 1961.Born in Weldheiden bei Kassel on April 19, 1891, Kurt Kersten studied in Munich and Berlin and served in World War I. From 1919 to 1933 he worked as a freelance journalist in close association with left-wing expressionists. He made several trips to the USSR and contributed to the German Communist press. He emigrated to Switzerland in 1934, Czechoslovakia the same year, France in 1937, and the United States via Morocco and Martinique, 1940-1945. He was active in exile affairs and continued to work as an author and publicist. Kersten occasionally used the pseudonym Georg Forster. He died in New York City on May 18, 1962.digitize
Kersten, Robert - Engineering Professor
No full textEngineering Professor Robert Kersten, wearing a suit. He is a co-author of Hydrology and water quality control along with Martin P. Wanielista and Ron Eaglin.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/univphotocollection/1605/thumbnail.jp
Living green: Conference proceedings of the living green scientific conference
No full textPresentaties van Livinggreen Scientific Conference: Stimulating energy efficiency in households - Comparison of the Livinggreen.eu methods to theory – Daphne Geelen Engaging households in sustainable renovation – Exploration of a complementary approach - Meijer, S.A., Geelen, D.V., Franken, V., Kersten, W.C., Crul. M.R.M From community resilience towards urban resilience: exploring the grassroot initiatives’ role in cities - Meijer, S.A., van Timmeren, A., Crul, M.R.M., Brezet, H.C. Sense of history: capturing and utilizing immaterial values for sustainable heritage protection - Franken, V., Meijer, S.A.Design EngineeringIndustrial Design Engineerin
Paul Kersten. The Bookbinder’s Role in the Development of Decorative Paper
No full textIn her article, the author discusses the merits of the German craft bookbinder Paul Kersten (1865-1943) in the development of modern decorative papers as an expression of artistic individuality in the field of applied arts. From the Middle Ages, decorative paper had been used in decoration and bookbinding. Bookbinding workshops had traditionally made starched marbled paper. The interest of Paul Kersten, coming from a bookbinding family, in these papers had already dated from his youth. During his travels abroad, he was aware of the poor state of the bookbinding craft, which was affected by the mass production of books and book bindings as well as the industrialisation of paper production at the end of the 19th century. Kersten helped to introduce Art Nouveau into the design of German bookbinding and the methods of the modern production of decorative papers. At first, he worked as a manager in German paper manufactures and then as a teacher of bookbinding. His work was later oriented towards Symbolic Expressionism and he also tried to cope with the style of Art Deco.</jats:p
Fighting for a Fairy Tale: Elements of Dystopia and Fairy Tale in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
No full textYoung adult dystopian fiction seems to have combined the genres of utopian fiction and fairy tales as elements from both genres are present in contemporary young adult dystopias and interact with each other. The aim of this study is to find out how elements of fairy tales and dystopian fiction intersect in relation to gender in popular contemporary young adult dystopian fiction. The genres of dystopian literature and fairy tale are defined and the elements of the totalitarian regime, the young adult protagonist, the savage, the prince and princess, the quest and the happy end are analysed. To do this, passages from the young adult dystopian series Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, The Selection by Kiera Cass, and The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer are discussed. Four conclusions can be made. First, the fairy tale elements in young adult dystopias make the dystopian setting less cruel. Moreover, there is a distinction between The Maze Runner and the other series, as it has a male author and a male protagonist, and fairy tale elements are absent. Furthermore, there still is a reluctance to subvert all dominant mores as, it seems that the fairy tale norm of heterosexual romances, forming families and shunning sexuality are prevalent in this genre. Finally, although the totalitarian regime is of great importance in all series, this setting seems to influence in which way the fairy tale elements are incorporated.
Key words: young adult dystopian fiction, young adult fiction, dystopia, fairy tale, gende
Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full textStabat Mater||Today (September 15th) we honor Mary in her intimate relation to the Passion and Death of her Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. We celebrate Our Lady of Sorrows.|On this feast the Church invites us to ponder Mary's strength as she stands with her son at the foot of the cross. In this mystery, God reveals through Mary what it means to follow Our Lord to the end - with love, fidelity, and endurance. She is also our patron as we attentively encounter the pain and suffering of our brothers and sisters in the Mystical Body of Christ today. On this day we thank Mary for being a living sacrament of God's enduring compassion.|In Mary's sorrow we discover what we don't much want to acknowledge: that real love, as it matures, will inevitably take the form of sorrow when those we love must endure pain, suffering and death. In the larger view of God's plan of salvation, she shows us how to be with those who suffer at the hands of the greedy, inordinately ambitious, and arrogant agents of injustice in our daily lives and in our world. She is the one by whom God reveals what real sorrow is, and how sacred it is.|Our Lady of Sorrows, then, reveals what sorrow is from God's perspective. It is a fundamental openness to the suffering of another. Her sorrow shows us the sacred power we all have not only to acknowledge another person's pain, but also to desire to share in it. In real sorrow we open up to allow the suffering of another to find a place in our hearts. This is precisely the disposition Simeon refers to in his words to Mary, "And you yourself a sword will pierce." As sons and daughters of Mary, we are called and have the grace through her to open ourselves more and more to others of our time who are living out the Paschal Mystery. This is a fundamental disposition of Christian life.|As Mary shares in the sufferings of her Son, she is able only to accompany Him. She does not "do" anything. She can only be present to Him. But her presence includes knowing, understanding, accepting and loving. As one author puts it: "When 'nothing can be done' medically, socially, psycho-therapeutically, or whatever way, then the core needs of people emerge. They are being known, being understood, being accepted, being loved. These elements form the content of Mary's presence to her Son on Calvary."|From Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, we learn to be men and women for others who stand with them in faith and love in times of darkness and suffering. She is a witness to us in her living faith and maternal love fulfiilling the most profound mysteries of the Redemption. She inspires us not only in her silent helplessness during Our Lord's passion and death, but also as a young mother in her humble, hidden, and quiet activity in Nazareth, and as she lived out her later years mothering the Paschal Mystery into the life of the early Church.|Celebrating this feast, it makes sense to pray the great Marian hymn of Good Friday:|Iuxta crucem tecum stare ac me tibi sociare in planctu desidero. Fac ut portem Christi mortem passionis fac me sortem et plagas recolere.|I want to stand with you and I want to join you in your grieving. Make me bear Christ's death make me share his passion make me recall his wounds
Alive but Cancelled: The Public’s Response to the Controversial Author
No full textThis thesis explores how the public has responded to authors J.K. Rowling and Lionel Shriver, who have become the subject of public controversy, and what this response tells us about the current conceptions about the author. Academics like Wenche Ommundsen and English & Frow have established that authors are no longer the faceless names they once were, and several of them have reached a proper celebrity status. Especially now, in a time in which social media exerts great influence on how the general public views celebrities and concepts like “wokeness” and social justice become increasingly relevant topics, celebrities and celebrity authors are often expected to display socially just behaviour and reprimanded when they do not. By analysing the online responses to the controversies caused by these two prominent authors, this thesis argues that the public perceives a strong relationship between authors and their work and generally attributes a great deal of responsibility to popular authors with vast platforms.
Keywords: Lionel Shriver; J.K. Rowling; literary celebrity; wokeness; cancel culture; Death of the Author; transphobia; cultural appropriatio
"An Acquired Taste": The Internal and External Posture of Nicola Barker, Metamodernist Author
No full textThis thesis looks at how Nicola Barker's internal and external posture are construed on the basis of her last three books, The Cauliflower® (2016), H(A)PPY (2017), and I Am Sovereign (2019), how different institutions react to these books and whether that posture can be considered metamodernist. The theoretical framework and methodology builds on Meizoz's notion of posture, the singular way of occupying a position within the literary field, as defined by Bourdieu. As for metamodernism, multiple important sources are examined, starting with Vermeulen and Van den Akker. The research concludes that Nicola Barker can indeed be considered a metamodernist author and her posture seems to construed as that of a working-class author with a nonconformist and anti-establishment attitude, as well as an unconventional and transgressively intermedial approach that, despite her abundantly employed irony, always seems to contain a moral core
Posture and intimacy in the author-narrator’s voice: a comparison between Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and Gaiman’s Neverwhere
No full textMy research seeks to bridge the divide between Victorian and contemporary literary research by studying two readings, a public performance of A Christmas Carol by Dickens and the 1996 spoken word version of Neverwhere, written and narrated by Gaiman, in order to study authorship and performativity in a diachronic way. By close ‘listening’ to and close reading passages from both readings and putting the authors’ narrating techniques and styles into their own literary and cultural context, I aim to find out in what way the author-narrator’s voice in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and Gaiman’s Neverwhere constructs an authorial posture and contributes to a feeling of intimacy and companionship between author and listener
#582 The U.S. Policy Toward the Communist.
No full textParticipants include: Hon. Michael A. Feighan, Member of Congress from Ohio, and Member of the House Judiciary Committee Hon. Charles J. Kersten, former Congressman from Minnesota, Author of the Kersten Amendment to the Mutual Security Act. Mr. John E. Means, Member of the Department of Government, Georgetown Universit
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