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Heinrich Bölls Gruppenbild Mit Dame Als Frohe Botschaft Der Weltverbruderung, Ingenborg L. Carlson

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Böll erhielt 1972 den Nobelpreis für Literatur für diesen Roman, den die Stockholmer Nobelpreis-Jury als “Meisterwerk” bezeichnete. Die deutsche Literaturkritik stimmt diesem Urteil nicht zu und sieht in Böll höchstens, nach Günter Grass, “den zweitbesten deutschen Schriftsteller.” Das internationale Echo folgte entsprechend. Die abfällige Sichtung läßt die Frage als begründet erscheinen, “Nobel Prize for Böll: A Literary or Moral Award?” welche für die Jahreskonferenz der RMMLA zum Thema eines Böll-Colloquiums gewählt wurde.

The Generation Gap A Century Ago: The Father-Son Conflict In Theodor Storm's Novellen, Eva Merrett Friedman

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Since antiquity writers have been fascinated by the pathos, tragedy, and the comedy of the “generation gap.” Sophocles tells the pathetic story of Oedipus, who murdered his father. In the Clouds Aristophanes focuses his humor on the permissive Athenian father beaten by his ungrateful son, who has been trained too well in Sophistry. In the Hildebrandslied father and son are pitted against each other in battle. In modern times Mark Twain has summarized the generation gap wittily and succinctly: “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man …

Introduction, Robert C. Conard

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The papers of the first Böll Seminar (1972) sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America were published in the pages of the UDR in the fall issue of 1973 (UDR, 10, No. 2). At that time the hope was expressed that if the Böll Seminar were renewed, the UDR would be pleased to publish the continuing Böll research. Thus with the co-operation of Erhard Friedrichsmeyer of the University of Cincinnati, organizer of the 1973 seminar, the participants: Professors Margareta Deschner of Southern Methodist University, Klaus Jeziorkowski of the University of Frankfurt, Gertrud Pickar of the University of Houston …

The American Reviews Of Heinrich Böll: A Note On The Problems Of The Compassionate Novelist, Keith Stewart

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It would not be difficult to arrange a rhetorical battle—or at least a series of skirmishes—among certain of those reviewers of Heinrich Böll’s novels who have taken positions since the appearance in America of Acquainted with the Night in 1954. W. J. Schwartz, reviewing Children are Civilians Too for the Saturday Review, could field his opinion that Böll is essentially a writer of short stories against D. J. Enright’s in The New York Review of Books that both that volume and 18 Stories suggest a writer who needs “more elbow room than the genre affords him.” Or those who find …

Böll's "Lady": A New Eve, Margareta Deschner

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“What kind of a young woman is this ... ?” cries the author and rechercheur of Heinrich Böll’s Group Portrait with Lady (Gruppenbild mit Dame) when confronted with Leni Pfeiffer, née Gruyten, the central figure of the portrait and the recent Nobel Prize-winning novel. The reader, echoing this question, is so intrigued by the search for the real Leni, set up in a cunning way by Böll himself, that he takes at face value the author’s amazement, willing to forget that Leni is the embodiment of Böll’s own dream of the real woman, his long-planned creation of a new Eve.

The Impact Of Narrative Perspective On Character Portrayal In Three Novels Of Heinrich Böll: Billard Um Halbzehn, Ansichten Eines Clowns, And Gruppenbild Mit Dame, Gertrud B. Pickar

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During the last fifteen years, Böll has published a prodigious number of novels and long narratives, employing a variety of narrative approaches. His most recent novels, Billard um halbzehn (published in 1959), Ansichten eines Clowns (1963), and Gruppenbild mit Dame (1971), reveal his experimentation in narrative form and present strikingly different alternatives for narrative expression. This paper is concerned with one particular aspect of such presentation, the impact of narrative perspective on character portrayal.

Heinrich Böll Als Politischer Autor, Klaus Jeziorkowski

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Heinrich Böll selbst wiirde sich energisch gegen einen Analyse-Versuch wehren, der etwa folgendes konstatierte: Böll zerfiillt in einen dichterischen und in einen kritischen Böll, in einen engagierten und einen reinen Böll, in einen politischen und in einen belletristischen Böll. Einen solchen zerfallenden Böll will der Titel meiner Bemerkungen nicht vorfiihren.

Die Ironie Des Zufalls Bei Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Bodo Fritzen

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Obwohl Friedrich Dürrenmatt “im Munde aller Theaterbesucher und vieler Theaterfreunde” allgemein als einer der begabtesten Theatraliker unter den heutigen deutschsprachigen Dramatikern gilt, wird seine .ästhetische Klassifizierung und literarische Einordnung heftig umstritten. "Man hezichtigt ihn aller möglichen -ismen, yom Kommunismus über den Nihilismus bis zum Konservatismus." Friedrich Dürrenmatt selbst hat mit seinen freigebigen Interviews, Randnotizen und Anmerkungen zu dieser Unstimmigkeit und Verwirrung beträchtlich beigetragen. Dass der Schriftsteller die bisher anscheinend vergeblichen Klassifikationsversuche der Literaturkritiker als nutzlose Reflexionen betrachtet, kommt in den Theaterproblemen deutlich zum Ausdruck: “Dann möchte ich bitten, in mir nicht einen Vertreter einer bestimrnten drama tisch en Richtung, einer …

Goethe And The Threnody, Dennis Mccort

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Literary criticism has perennially subjected the threnody in particular and occasional verse in general to the harshest negative evaluation. Numberless reams of poor threnodic verse have warranted much of this criticism, even inspiring on occasion such parodic gems as Johann von Besser's dirge, "Über den Tod Wachtelchens, seiner kurfürstlichen Durchlaucht schönes Hündchen." It seems, however, that serious criticism has made too much too often of inferior specimens, to the aspersion of countless threnodies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that are of high quality. Opitz, Dach, Günther and Goethe, to name only a few poets, composed funerary lyrics which far …

Introduzione, Stefano De Fiores

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Itinerario Spirituale Di S. Luigi Maria Di Montfort (1673-1716), Stefano De Flores

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The Marian Library Newsletter: Issue No. 6, University Of Dayton. Marian Library

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Skepticism, Psychology, And Philosophical Criteria, Kristin Shrader

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Editor's note: This paper was read at the fourth annual University of Dayton Philosophy Colloquium, held in 1974.

Throughout the ages, philosophers seem to have attempted to steer a course between the Scylla of dogmatism and the Charybdis of relativism or skepticism. Perhaps this course has been stormy because philosophical dogmatism and the making of ontological and evaluative commitments can be easily caricatured into closed-mindedness. On the other hand, the relativism sometimes implicit in the jargon of philosophical neutrality threatens to collapse Sophia into sophistry. My solution to the problem of philosophical neutrality rests on three theses, the substantiation of …

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The Philosopher's Character And Praxis, Martin A. Bertman

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Editor's note: This paper was read at the fourth annual University of Dayton Philosophy Colloquium, held in 1974.

Not inappropriately, as an invitation to conversation, the title of this colloquium — “The Philosopher: Neutral or Committed?" — is ambiguous and provocative. For one, the word “neutral” opposes “committed,” thereby suggesting the conflation of the meanings of “neutral” and “uncommitted,” as the latter is the formal opposite of committed.

To understand the meaning of “uncommitted” as positive hostility and abnegation of political action, however, would bring forward few advocates: Diogenes or Sinope, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche come to mind.

Polanyi's Theory Of Commitment, Lawrence P. Ulrich

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Editor's note: This paper was read at the fourth annual University of Dayton Philosophy Colloquium, held in 1974.

Michael Polanyi capsulizes his understanding of man’s knowing activity by the phrase “personal knowledge.” In order to understand any subordinate theme, e.g., commitment, which he treats, one must first have some appreciation of the force of his central theme, namely, the “personal” feature that is present in our knowing.

Philosophy, Commitment, And Their Institutional Setting, Robert N. Beck

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Editor's note: This paper was read at the fourth annual University of Dayton Philosophy Colloquium, held in 1974.

The question before this colloquium, whether the philosopher is neutral or committed, arises in a variety of contexts and takes on multiple meanings. It can be asked more broadly so as to refer to the humanities generally, to scholarship, even to the university itself; and it can be asked with precise reference to philosophy. Having at least these two contexts, the question calls for separate, though I think interrelated, considerations. I shall begin with some broader issues, and turn to the question …

Ought Cats Be Tuesday? Reflections On The Neutrality Of Philosophers, Xavier Monasterio

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Editor's note: This paper was read at the fourth annual University of Dayton Philosophy Colloquium, held in 1974.

Should walls be brown. or white? The question is ridiculous because, as it stands, it is unanswerable. Why should walls be brown rather than white, or white rather than brown? On what basis can we decide that one color is more fitted than another for walls? In order for the question to become truly intelligible and answerable, its context needs to be specified. Tell me whether you are talking about the walls of a house or the walls of an industrial plant, …

Philosophical Commitment As Artistic Expression, Robert K. Mcmaster

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Editor's note: This paper was read at the fourth annual University of Dayton Philosophy Colloquium, held in 1974.

In this paper I will deal with and try to give acceptable answers to three basic questions that deal with the topic of philosophical commitment. The questions and the order in which they will be dealt with are:

• What is philosophical commitment?
• How does philosophical commitment develop?
• What is the best way to describe, talk about, or understand this commitment?

Should The Christian Philosopher Be Committed To Action?, John G. Thompson

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Editor's note: This paper was read at the fourth annual University of Dayton Philosophy Colloquium, held in 1974.

Should the Christian Philosopher be Committed to Action? Speculative and practical issues seem to be involved in that eternal and very contemporary question. Its two contradictory answers will mold the thought and life of the Christian philosopher in two very different ways. The problem, by the way, does not appear to be unique to him. One can think of the artist, the scientist, etc., but it appears here more crucial because of his hold on and his pretense to a rational synthesis …

The Mind-Body Problem And Philosophic Commitment, Joseph Kunkel

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Editor's note: This paper was read at the fourth annual University of Dayton Philosophy Colloquium, held in 1974.

The intent of the first half of this paper is to set forth two leading distinct theories on the mind-body problem, and to point out some difficulties with the prevailing philosophy of science as this pertains to the behavioral sciences. The outcome of such an exposition will hopefully be a fuller understanding of two sides of a significant current philosophic controversy. In the second half I will draw out some general patterns of commitment prevalent within the philosophic community when philosophers debate …

The Transcendental Phenomenologist: Neutral Or Committed?, Raymond J. Devettere

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Editor's note: This paper was read at the fourth annual University of Dayton Philosophy Colloquium, held in 1974.

From the very beginning Western philosophy has been marked by an almost constant longing for radical knowledge, indubitable truth, apodictic evidence, the ultimate ground. Edmund Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology continues this philosophical passion and advances it along the lines first opened up by Descartes. The Cartesian doubt was a philosophical method designed to achieve an absolutely certain point of departure for philosophy by applying a merciless skepticism to all our experiences which could in any way be questioned. Two important insights emerge here: …

Introduction, Raymond Herbenick

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Editor's note: This paper was read at the fourth annual University of Dayton Philosophy Colloquium, held in 1974.

In considering the theme of the Fourth Annual Philosophy Colloquium — "The Philosopher: Neutral or Committed?" — several difficulties are apparent. First, the proposed question seems to fall outside the standard areas of interest of many contemporary philosophers, although it has its roots in the classic problem of adequately understanding the nature of philosophy. Second, the proposed question seems to suffer from an ambiguity that might lead one to respond in a variety of ways to perhaps no end at all. Yet, …

Cardinal Carberry's Letter, Mariological Society Of America

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Table Of Contents, Mariological Society Of America

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