Rolf Günter Renner Boeken

Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is considered the first significant American painter in 20th-century art. After decades of patient work, Hopper enjoyed a success and popularity that since the 1950s has continually grown. In canvas after canvas he painted the loneliness of big-city people. Many of Hopper's pictures represent views of streets and roads, rooftops, and abandoned houses, depicted in a brilliant light that strangely belies the melancholy mood of the scenes. Hopper's paintings are marked by striking juxtapositions of colour, and by the clear contours with which the figures are demarcated from their surroundings. His extremely precise focus on the theme of modern men and women in the natural and man-made environment sometimes lends his pictures a mood of eerie disquiet. On the other hand, Hopper's renderings of rocky landscapes in warm brown hues, or his depictions of the seacoast, exude an unusual tranquillity that reveals another, more optimistic side of his character.

Examines the life & career of the 20th-century artist whose window-view of America revealed a New Realism in his paintings of trains, restaurants, office buildings, remote towns, & empty city streets. 9" x 11 3/4". Color plates & b&w illus.

The volume presents Handke's works from Hornissen (1966) to Das zweite Schwert (2020) in individual analyses and at the same time opens up overarching orientations of Handke's writing. The autoreflexive traces that characterise the author's experimental early work are perpetuated in a middle phase by a return to traditional forms of epic narrative and literary models that is philosophically influenced. In the late work, these approaches give rise to a comprehensive poetology of narrative that links all the texts together. In the process, previously developed motifs are condensed into overarching thematic complexes. Alongside the reality of war, the relationship between image and writing, text and film, social and media developments of modernity come to the fore. The reference of Handke's texts to images of the painterly tradition and visual strategies of his writing are given special weight. This book is a translation of the original German 1 st edition Peter Handke by Rolf G. Renner, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL. com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

Thomas Mann »Der Tod in Venedig« wird als Beispiel für den Zusammenhang zwischen ästhetischer, essayistischer und autobiographischer Selbstreflexion verstanden. Kulturelle Einflüsse und ästhetische Konzepte lassen in der Geschichte Gustav Aschenbachs Linien verfolgen, die zu beinahe allen anderen Schriften Thomas Manns führen. Überdies wird deutlich, daß die Venedignovelle eine für die Texte des Autors exemplarische Konvergenz von Werk und Leben zeigt: Im Schreiben wird die Grenze zwischen dem eigenen Ich und dem geborgten, dem wirklichen und dem erfundenen Leben fließend, Wünschen und Schreiben gelangen zunehmend zur Deckung.

O leitor vai encontrar nesta antologia não apenas o que de melhor se fez em narrativa curta na Alemanha do século 20, mas autores austríacos e suíços cuja experiência estética é indispensável para um painel do conto em língua alemã do período. A antologia reúne autores já célebres no Brasil, como Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Bertholt Brecht, Stefan Zweig, Günter Grass e Thomas Bernhard, além de autores até então inéditos como a laureada com o Prêmio Nobel de Literatura de 2004, a austríaca Elfriede Jelinek.