Literary exiles from Nazi Germany : exemplarity and the search for meaning /
"Exile is as old as humanity itself but a radically new fate for the 'novice' exile, who falls into a world about which personal experience can tell him nothing. He does, however, know a great number of stories--myths, legends, allegories, biblical or historical accounts--about exile....
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Rochester, New York :
Camden House,
2014.
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| Series: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. A German Gallery of Exile; The Republic of Mainz--The Case of Georg Forster; The Carlsbad Decrees; The July Revolution and the Vormärz; 1848 27; The Antisocialist Law of 1878; "Exile before Exile"--The First World War
- 2. Emulating Exile; Pedigrees, Models, Counterweights; Enduring Patterns, Inhabitable Texts; Embodying Exemplarity; Community, Continuity, Affinity; Exclusive Exemplarity
- 3. Falling into Exile--And Learning to Read Its (Secret) Signs; Writings, Signs, Markers; Falling into Exile--Being or Nonbeing; Learning Exile by Example; Connecting the Dots: Figures of Rupture, Figures of Connection; Illusions of Connectedness; Pain: Laying Bare Exile's Patterns of Meaning; Evolving Exile and the Promise of Weltbürgertum
- 4. What, Then, Is Exile? Toward a Metaphysics of Exile; Light in the Dark: Exiles as Torchbearers; Metaphysics; Geography as Fate: Hans Flesch-Brunningen; Exile as Ultimate Separation; The Perils of Time and Space; Namelessness--Otherness; Exile's Finality
- 5. Beyond the Eternal Jew--Representing Jewish Exile; The Eternal Jew; Claiming One's Own; The Exile's Call for Universalism; Wandering as Fate; Pariah vs. Mr. Cohn; Schlemihl; Job
- Conclusion.