Else Lasker-Schuler - The Broken World

Klappentext This 1974 book was the first treatment in English of the poetry of Else Lasker-Sch ler! a German-Jewish poet who died in exile in Jerusalem. Zusammenfassung This 1974 book was the first full-length treatment in English of the poetry of Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), a German-Jewish poet who died in exile in Jerusalem. The aim of the author, a practising psychologist, was to see poetry as an expression of the deeper urges of the psyche. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prefatory note; Abbreviations; Part I. Introduction; Part II. A Biographical Outline: 1. Myth and reality; 2. Childhood; 3. Marriage; 4. Friends; 5. Paul; 6. Emigration; 7. Jerusalem; Part III. The Swing of the Pendulum: 1. The backward movement: withdrawal: i. Disappointment and resentment; ii. Despair and isolation; iii. Escape into fantasy; iv. Preoccupation with death; 2. The forward movement: outgoing: i. Longing for contact; ii. The erotic encounter; iii. The search for God; Biographical data; Select bibliography; Index; Diagram: the swing of the pendulum.

Product details

• Authors: Hans W. Cohn, Cohn Hans W.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521168366
• ISBN: 978-0-521-16836-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Anglica Germanica Series 2; Anglica Germanica Series 2
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, german, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets