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  • Classicism of the Twenties

    Art, Music, & Literature

    by Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct and influential was a turn to classicism.In Classicism of the Twenties, Theodore Ziolkowski offers a compelling account of that movement. Giving equal attention to music, art, and ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lure of the Arcane

    The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy

    by Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    A study of the depiction of cults, conspiracies, and secret societies in literature from ancient Greek and Roman mysteries to the 21st century thriller.Fascination with the arcane is a driving force in this comprehensive survey of conspiracy fiction. Theodore Ziolkowski traces the evolution of cults, orders, lodges, secret societies, and conspiracies through various literary manifestations—drama, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Glass Bead Game

    (Magister Ludi) A Novel

    by Hermann Hesse ...
    Translated by Richard Winston, Clara Winston ...
    The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature.Set in the 23rd century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Minos and the Moderns

    Cretan Myth in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art

    by Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    Minos and the Moderns considers three mythological complexes that enjoyed a unique surge of interest in early twentieth-century European art and literature: Europa and the bull, the minotaur and the labyrinth, and Daedalus and Icarus. All three are situated on the island of Crete and are linked by the figure of King Minos. Drawing examples from fiction, poetry, drama, painting, sculpture, opera, ... Read more

    $74.69 USD

  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt

    Selected Writings, Volume 2, Fictions

    by Friedrich Dürrenmatt ...
    Translated by Joel Agee ...
    These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s fiction introduce the writer to a new generation of readers.The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Yet outside Europe, this ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • German Romanticism and Its Institutions

    by Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    Using an illuminating method that challenges the popular notion of Romanticism as aesthetic escapism, Theodore Ziolkowski explores five institutions--mining, law, madhouses, universities, and museums--that provide the socio-historical context for German Romantic culture. He shows how German writers and thinkers helped to shape these five institutions, all of which assumed their modern form during ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • The Assignment

    or, On the Observing of the Observer of the Observers

    by Friedrich Dürrenmatt ...
    Translated by Joel Agee ...
    In Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s experimental thriller The Assignment, the wife of a psychiatrist has been raped and killed near a desert ruin in North Africa. Her husband hires a woman named F. to reconstruct the unsolved crime in a documentary film. F. is soon unwittingly thrust into a paranoid world of international espionage where everyone is watched—including the watchers. After discovering a recent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Gilgamesh among Us

    Modern Encounters with the Ancient Epic

    by Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    The world's oldest work of literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh recounts the adventures of the semimythical Sumerian king of Uruk and his ultimately futile quest for immortality after the death of his friend and companion, Enkidu, a wildman sent by the gods. Gilgamesh was deified by the Sumerians around 2500 BCE, and his tale as we know it today was codified in cuneiform tablets around 1750 BCE and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Pictor's Metamorphoses

    and Other Fantasies

    by Hermann Hesse ...
    Translated by Rika Lesser ...
    In the spring of 1922, several months after completing Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse wrote a fairy tale that was also a love story, inspired by the woman who was to become his second wife. That story, Pictor's Metamorphoses, is the centerpiece of this anthology of Hesse's luminous short fiction. Based on The Arabian Nights and the work of the Brothers Grimm, the nineteen stories collected here ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Stages of European Romanticism

    Cultural Synchronicity across the Arts, 1798-1848

    by Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    Romanticism was a truly European phenomenon, extending roughly from the French Revolution to the 1848 revolutions and embracing not only literature and drama but also music and visual arts. Because of Romanticism's vast scope, most treatments have restricted themselves to single countries or to specific forms, notably literature, art, or music. This book takes a wider view by considering in each ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Music into Fiction

    Composers Writing, Compositions Imitated

    by Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    This book deals with three aspects that have been neglected in the burgeoning field of music and literature. The "First Movement" of the book considers writers from German Romanticism to the present who, like Robert Schumann, first saw themselves as writers before they turned to composition, or, like E. T. A. Hoffmann and Anthony Burgess, sought careers in music before becoming writers. It also ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Uses and Abuses of Moses

    Literary Representations since the Enlightenment

    by Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    In Uses and Abuses of Moses, Theodore Ziolkowski surveys the major literary treatments of the biblical figure of Moses since the Enlightenment. Beginning with the influential treatments by Schiller and Goethe, for whom Moses was, respectively, a member of a mystery cult and a violent murderer, Ziolkowski examines an impressive array of dramas, poems, operas, novels, and films to show the many ways ... Read more

    $43.19 USD