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Nontraditional Features Of Heinrich Böll's War Books: Innovations Of A Pacifist, W. Lee Nahrgang
Nontraditional Features Of Heinrich Böll's War Books: Innovations Of A Pacifist, W. Lee Nahrgang
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Heinrich Böll, recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1972, has treated the theme of war throughout his literary career; and in some ways his war books and stories differ considerably from those of other contemporary German writers. In fact, some authorities argue that none of his works are true war books in the traditional sense. Perhaps the most significant difference between Böll's works and the war books of most other authors is that he equates World War II with previous military conflicts, whereas they consider it uniquely evil because of the various crimes of the National Socialists. This …
When Sports Conquered The Republic: A Forgotten Chapter From The «Roaring Twenties.» , Wolfgang Rothe
When Sports Conquered The Republic: A Forgotten Chapter From The «Roaring Twenties.» , Wolfgang Rothe
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
After the First World War, sport experienced an astonishing growth in the successor states to the two empires of central Europe, a growth which can only be explained sociologically in terms of the general character of the twentieth century as a «physical century.» Furthermore, the intellectual climate of the times as well as the psychic state of the freshly-hatched Republicans plays a special role. That is, the enormous fascination with the «Moloch of sport» can be explained on the one hand by a non-intellectual worshipping of purely physical, measurable maximum achievements (record-mania), on the other by the America-cult that arose …