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Stefan Zweig and World Literature

Twenty-First-Century Perspectives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

AvBirger Vanwesenbeeck,Mark H. Gelber,Birger (Customer) Vanwesenbeeck,Mark H. (Customer) Gelber

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A new critical assessment of the works of the Austrian-Jewish author, in whom there has been a recent resurgence of interest, from the perspective of world literature.The twenty-first century has seen a renewed surge of cultural and critical interest in the works of the Austrian-Jewish author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), who was among the most-read and -acclaimed authors worldwide in the 1920s and1930s but after 1945 fell into critical disfavor and relative obscurity. The resurgence in interest in Zweig and his works is attested to by, among other things, new English translations and editions of his works; a Brazilian motion picture and a best-selling French novel about his final days; and a renewed debate surrounding the literary quality of his work in the London Review of Books. This global return to Zweig calls for a critical reassessment of his legacy and works, which the current collection of essays provides by approaching them from a global perspective as opposed to the narrow European focus through which they have been traditionally approached. Together, theintroduction and twelve essays engage the totality of Zweig's published and unpublished works from his drama and his fiction to his letters and his biographies, and from his literary and art criticism to his autobiography.Contributors: Richard V. Benson, Jeffrey B. Berlin, Darién J. Davis, Marlen Eckl, Mark H. Gelber, Robert Kelz, Klemens Renoldner, Birger Vanwesenbeeck, John Warren, Klaus Weissenberger, Robert Weldon Whalen, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young.Birger Vanwesenbeeck is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York at Fredonia. Mark H. Gelber is Senior Professor of Comparative Literature and German-Jewish Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-03-15
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt564 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Antal sidor278
FörlagBoydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN9781571139245

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IntroductionA Stefan Zweig Revival? - Birger VanwesenbeeckStefan Zweig's Drama Jeremias in Context - John Warren"That Voice in the Darkness!": Technologies of the Tropical Talking Cure in Stefan Zweig's Der Amokläufer and Verwirrung der Gefühle - Geoffrey Winthrop-YoungNarrating Alterity: Stefan Zweig, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Trauma of Redemption - Robert Weldon WhalenStefan Zweig and the Concept of World Literature - Mark H. GelberLandscape, "Heimat," and Artistic Production: Stefan Zweig's Introduction to E. M. Lilien: Sein Werk - Richard V. BensonStefan Zweig's Non-fictional Prose in Exile: Mastery of the European Genre of "Kunstprosa" - Klaus WeissenbergerThe Writer's Political Obligations in Exile: The Case of Stefan Zweig - Robert KelzTrue to Himself: Stefan Zweig's Visit to Argentina in September 1936 - Darien J. DavisExile and Liminality in "A Land of the Future": Charlotte and Stefan Zweig in Brazil, August 1941-March 1942 - Marlen EcklStefan Zweig's Concept of Brazil in the Context of German-Jewish Emigration - Klemens RenoldnerStefan Zweig: Life in Cities of Exile - Jeffrey B. BerlinNotes on the ContributorsIndex

This volume is an important contribution to Stefan Zweig scholarship, attempting to account for the author's persistent worldwide signifcance. [The editors] bring together a collection of essays that expose the narrowness of the trenchant critiques of what Michael Hofmann in the London Review of Books of 28 January 2010 called this 'purveyor of Trivialliteratur,' and they rightly expand the context of Zweig's reception beyond Europe. With the ambitious objective of 'focusing on the totality of Zweig's literary output' (p. 4), the book covers most of the phases and genres of Zweig's life and work . . . . The best essays in this collection plainly concede many of the flaws and problems associated with Stefan Zweig's life and work, while understanding that the context for these criticisms has shifted, substantially nullifying their potency as critical shibboleths in the twenty-first century and showing very clearly why Zweig demands to be re-evaluated in the light of the contemporary re-evaluations of modernism, authorship, and literary value.