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Die Marionette Ais Interpretationsansatz Zu Bölls Ansichten Eines Clowns, Ralf R. Nicolai
Die Marionette Ais Interpretationsansatz Zu Bölls Ansichten Eines Clowns, Ralf R. Nicolai
University of Dayton Review
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Geld Und Liebe In Bölls Roman Und Sagte Kein Einziges Wort, Ehrhard Bahr
Geld Und Liebe In Bölls Roman Und Sagte Kein Einziges Wort, Ehrhard Bahr
University of Dayton Review
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Emilia Gaiotti And The Limits Of Psychological Criticism, Frank G. Ryder
Emilia Gaiotti And The Limits Of Psychological Criticism, Frank G. Ryder
University of Dayton Review
Psychoanalytic and psychological criticism of literature abounds, but the encounter, in an integral reading, of a fully qualified psychologist and an acknowledged literary masterpiece is not a commonplace event. In this light a recent interpretation of Lessing's Emilia Galotti deserves attention. In addressing myself to it, I am more interested in examining the implications and consequences of the encounter than in making ad hoc objections to a specific interpreter or his work. Admittedly the line of separation is sometimes obscure.
A Feminist Critique Of Böll's Ansichten Eines Clowns, Evelyn T. Beck
A Feminist Critique Of Böll's Ansichten Eines Clowns, Evelyn T. Beck
University of Dayton Review
At this point in time, we cannot honestly speak of feminist criticism as if it were a single, unified approach. As a method, it is still in the process of being forged, and for this reason, I believe it would be more accurate to speak in terms of a variety of feminist approaches, some focusing on women characters, some on women writers, yet others linking up with existing modes of criticism. There is however, one basic assumption that unites all feminist perspectives: They take as given that women are as important as men—that is, they reject the male-centered view of …
Cover And Front Matter, University Of Dayton
Cover And Front Matter, University Of Dayton
University of Dayton Review
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Introduction, Robert C. Conard
Introduction, Robert C. Conard
University of Dayton Review
With this appearance of the UDR, it is the third time an issue of the journal has published the papers of the Heinrich Böll Seminar of the Modern Language Association of America. For cooperation in this effort to publish important recent criticism of the work of Heinrich Böll thanks are due to the organizer of the 1975 seminar, Professor Gertrud Pickar of the University of Houston, and to the participants in the seminar: Professors Theodore Ziolkowski of Princeton University, Evelyn Beck of the University of Wisconsin, Ralf Nicolai of the University of Georgia, Ehrhard Bahr of the University of California, …
The Soviet Version Of Heinrich Böll’S Gruppenbild Mit Dame: The Translator As Censor, Henry Glade, Konstantin Bogatyrev
The Soviet Version Of Heinrich Böll’S Gruppenbild Mit Dame: The Translator As Censor, Henry Glade, Konstantin Bogatyrev
University of Dayton Review
All of Heinrich Böll’s major fictional works have been translated into Russian and have appeared in book form, except for "Irisches Tagebuch" (Novij mir) and "Ende einer Dienstfahrt" (Inostrannaja literatura). In accordance with the special rules and quirks of the Soviet publishing system, issuance of his major works has not proceeded in chronological order: from Und sagte kein einziges Wort in 1957 to the volume comprising Der Zug war pünktlich; Im Tal der donnernden Hufe; Entfernung von der Truppe in 1971. Publication of any foreign book in the Soviet Union is never a routine matter, and …
Thomas Mann And Teachers, Walter D. Morris
Thomas Mann And Teachers, Walter D. Morris
University of Dayton Review
Thomas Mann's attitude toward the teaching profession is in many ways a negative one. He attacked and ridiculed conventional teachers, and he made teachers of manners laughable and pitiful. Nevertheless, he did have great respect for the good teacher who is a master in his field and who attracts pupils of ability. The pedagogical ideal which Mann developed is a personal, aesthetic one in which teacher and pupil are drawn together by love and where education takes place as an end in itself. The process is creative, not infrequently involving the demonic. It may lead one into difficulty, but it …
Horse’S Skull And Soul-Mouse: Folklore In A ‘Fairy-Tale’ By Wiihelm Busch, John Fitzell
Horse’S Skull And Soul-Mouse: Folklore In A ‘Fairy-Tale’ By Wiihelm Busch, John Fitzell
University of Dayton Review
Elements of folklore in literature—motif and/or symbol—tend to be archetypal by nature. This is eminently true of Busch’s weird skull and mysterious mouse. A perceptive reader senses a symbolic level even in the humorous poem. Goethe’s remarks on motif, symbol, and folk-tale can serve here as an introduction to our examination of what appears to be a mere light verse tale.
Goethe's "Das Gottliche": A New Reading, Christoph E. Schweitzer
Goethe's "Das Gottliche": A New Reading, Christoph E. Schweitzer
University of Dayton Review
The following interpretation of Goethe’s poem "Das Gottliche" is not entirely original: If one considers the fame of the poem—who does not know by heart its first verse?—and the quantity of Goethe scholarship, it stands to reason that some of the ideas presented here can be found elsewhere. We will refer to such agreement at the appropriate place in the article. However, there are major points in our reading of "Das Gottliche" that are original and that let us see the poem in a new light.
The Agrarian Ideology: Fascism As Utopia And Hypocrisy, Jost Hermand
The Agrarian Ideology: Fascism As Utopia And Hypocrisy, Jost Hermand
University of Dayton Review
In the eyes of Marxist theorists fascism is seen as the most immediate and brutal manifestation of imperialism ; that is, it is a form of capitalism which seizes upon right-radical elements of society during times of economic and social upheaval in an effort to maintain a system of total suppression and control of public opinion. Internally, fascism is evoked to dissolve the opposition of leftist labor organizations; externally, it launches an aggressive mobilization of the interests of "big business" by creating new colonies, outlets for manufactured goods, sources of raw materials and areas of market manipulation. Thus viewed, Hitler …
The Symbolic Use Of Color In Heinrich Böll's Billard Um Halbzehn, Gertrud Bauer Pickar
The Symbolic Use Of Color In Heinrich Böll's Billard Um Halbzehn, Gertrud Bauer Pickar
University of Dayton Review
The central role of the billiard table and the game played upon it within Böll’s novel has significant ramifications, among them the initiation of a color system, which is subsequently employed consistently throughout the novel. In the course of the text, the reader’s attention is focused repeatedly upon the billiard table and upon the red and white balls rolling over its green surface. Indeed, the words “weiß über grün, rot über griin, rot-weiß über grün” serve as a refrain which becomes one of the key leitmotifs in the work. They establish as well a trio of colors which …
The Author As Advocatus Dei In Heinrich Böll’S Group Portrait With Lady, Theodore Ziolkowski
The Author As Advocatus Dei In Heinrich Böll’S Group Portrait With Lady, Theodore Ziolkowski
University of Dayton Review
In the lectures on aesthetics that he delivered in 1963-64 at the University of Frankfurt, Heinrich Böll enunciated a precept that is too often forgotten, or at least ignored, by literary scholars and critics. “The content of a prose work, after all, is its presupposition, a gift; and you shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.” Böll does not mean, of course, that content is irrelevant; but he suggests that criticism often neglects to concern itself with that aspect of the literary work that is specifically aesthetic: its form. “Recapitulation of plot without analysis of form makes possible all …
Thomas Mann And 'The Jewish Question': Perhaps The Last Word, Sol Gittleman
Thomas Mann And 'The Jewish Question': Perhaps The Last Word, Sol Gittleman
University of Dayton Review
Perhaps the least discussed—and for that reason least understood—of the multitudinous facets of Thomas Mann's writings has been that which concerns his image of the Jew. Generally, the subject is not mentioned even in the more comprehensive studies of Mann's works. The story which deals most directly with a Jewish theme, The Blood of the Volsungs (Wälsungenblut, 1905), has attracted relatively little critical attention. This is remarkable for two reasons. Artistically, it is a minor masterpiece; and biographically, the story became the center of a storm of outrage within Mann's own family and precipitated a …