Beware of Pity

Author	: Stefan Zweig
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1996
ISBN 10	: STANFORD:36105018341458
Pages	: 378 pages
Rating	: 4.F/5 ( users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Beware of Pity written by Stefan Zweig and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Thomas Mann, Stefan Zweig was perhaps the most well-known and widely read author writing in German before the Nazi rule. Beware of Pity was written in Zweig's London exile in 1938, and although it is above all a psychological novel whose tragedy unfolds in the private realms, Zweig's humanistic perspective provides a commentary on the larger historical and political situation. His subtle analysis of pity and its implications - his psychological study of the self-denying surrender to the object of one's pity and his Nietszchean verdict against the fatal power of the weak - resonates with the political ills of the time. The main action is set in 1914, in the months leading up to World War I. Pushed on by circumstances and caught between the polarities of his life as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army and his acquaintance with a wealthy local family, Anton Hofmiller consents to an engagement with Edith, the crippled daughter who loves him. Immediately regretting his assent, remorseful yet refusing responsibility, he denies the news of his engagement to his comrades. His weakness of character and his selfish and superficial pity for Edith and her father, his fear of making decisions and his inability of facing the consequences, drive the woman to commit suicide and break her father's heart.

Beware of pity

Author	: Stefan Zweig
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1956
ISBN 10	: OCLC:9073773
Pages	: 357 pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (97 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Beware of pity written by Stefan Zweig and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Disability Avoidance and the Academy

Author	: David Bolt
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2017-07-14
ISBN 10	: 9781317511083
Pages	: 212 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (175 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Disability Avoidance and the Academy written by David Bolt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability is a widespread phenomenon, indeed a potentially universal one as life expectancies rise. Within the academic world, it has relevance for all disciplines yet is often dismissed as a niche market or someone else’s domain. This collection explores how academic avoidance of disability studies and disability theory is indicative of social prejudice and highlights, conversely, how the academy can and does engage with disability studies. This innovative book brings together work in the humanities and the social sciences, and draws on the riches of cultural diversity to challenge institutional and disciplinary avoidance. Divided into three parts, the first looks at how educational institutions and systems implicitly uphold double standards, which can result in negative experiences for staff and students who are disabled. The second part explores how disability studies informs and improves a number of academic disciplines, from social work to performance arts. The final part shows how more diverse cultural engagement offers a way forward for the academy, demonstrating ways in which we can make more explicit the interdisciplinary significance of disability studies – and, by extension, disability theory, activism, experience, and culture. Disability, Avoidance and the Academy: Challenging Resistance will interest students and scholars of disability studies, education studies and cultural studies.

Beware of Pity

Author	: Stefan Zweig
Publisher	: Pushkin Press
Release Date	: 2011
ISBN 10	: 1906548412
Pages	: 460 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (484 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Beware of Pity written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant story in which the conflict between duty and loyalty mixed with desire is impressively conveyed.

Beware of Pity

Author	:
Publisher	:
Release Date	:
ISBN 10	: OCLC:43531639
Pages	: 426 pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (435 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Beware of Pity written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marie Antoinette The Portrait of an Average Woman

Author	: Stefan Zweig
Publisher	: Plunkett Lake Press
Release Date	: 2019-08-09
ISBN 10	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Marie Antoinette The Portrait of an Average Woman written by Stefan Zweig and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1932 and for decades since one of Stefan Zweig’s most popular biographies, this “portrait of an average woman,” betrothed at fourteen, crowned queen at nineteen, and beheaded at thirty-seven, aimed “not to deify, but to humanize.” Supplementing library and archival research with psychological insight,Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman is a vivid narrative of France’s most famous queen, her relations with her mother Empress Maria Theresa, her husband Louis XVI, and her lover Swedish Count von Fersen, set against the backdrop of the French and Austrian courts of the ancien régime, the French Revolution and the Terror. “... the biography to end all biographies on Marie Antoinette ... [Zweig's book] possesses all the qualities of the excellent biography — directness, frankness, full exposition, picturesqueness, characterization, color and delectable readableness.” —The New York Times “Powerful, magnificent, poignant…” — The New Republic “A stupendous and superb piece of work.” — Chicago Daily Tribune

Nietzsche Trauma and Overcoming

Author	: Uri Wernik
Publisher	: Vernon Press
Release Date	: 2018-01-15
ISBN 10	: 9781622733521
Pages	: 178 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (227 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Nietzsche Trauma and Overcoming written by Uri Wernik and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nietzsche Trauma and Overcoming " shows that Nietzsche suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and most probably was a victim of childhood sex abuse. I bring convincing evidence from his texts to support these claims, along with a discussion of corroborating psychological findings on these issues. I show that he teaches coping with pain and suffering, based on his life experience, with lessons from the school of war, the wisdom of reinterpretation, and artistic activity. His three themes of the Superman, Eternal Recurrence, and the Will to Power, the heart of his philosophy and psychology, are understood in a new light, in relation to his personal suffering and overcoming. The book criticizes the attempts to diagnose Nietzsche as suffering from various psychiatric disorders, psychoanalyze him as a fatherless child grown old, and outing him as a closet homosexual. These approaches lead to a dead-end. Firstly, it is impossible to prove that someone is a paragon of mental health, not a covert homosexual, and unmoved by a parent’s death. Secondly, these speculations explain only a small part of Nietzsche’s personal statements, found in his writings. Thirdly, and most importantly, they do not change our understanding of his ideas and how they were arrived at; they do not increase our appreciation of him; and do not leave us with any lessons for life (the goal of any good writing according to Nietzsche).

The Dawn of Day

Author	: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1903
ISBN 10	: PRNC:32101068982014
Pages	: 428 pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (321 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book The Dawn of Day written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art

Author	:
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1939
ISBN 10	: OSU:32435022189898
Pages	: 744 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (243 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beware of Pity

Author	: Jane Dorset
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1953
ISBN 10	: LCCN:gb53007195
Pages	: 191 pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (5 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Beware of Pity written by Jane Dorset and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

Author	: Stefan Zweig
Publisher	: Pushkin Press
Release Date	: 2013-11-07
ISBN 10	: 9781782270706
Pages	: 612 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (822 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfectly paced and brimming with passion-twenty-two tales from a master storyteller of the twentieth century. In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig's short stories the very best and worst of human nature are captured with sharp observation, understanding and vivid empathy. Ranging from love and death to faith restored and hope regained, these stories present a master at work, at the top of his form. Translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell ; 'One of the joys of recent years is the translation into English of Stefan Zweig's stories. They have an astringency of outlook and a mastery of scale that I find enormously enjoyable.'-Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with the Amber Eyes ; 'One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work .'-Nick Lezard ; 'Zweig belongs with those masters of the novella-Maupassant, Turgenev, Chekhov.'-Paul Bailey ; Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he moved to London, where he wrote his only novel Beware of Pity. He later moved on to Bath, taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War. With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York, before settling in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.

sterreichische Satire 1933 2000

Author	: Jeanne Benay
Publisher	: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Release Date	: 2003
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015060080457
Pages	: 552 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (91 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book sterreichische Satire 1933 2000 written by Jeanne Benay and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2003 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Über österreichische «Satire im Exil» wurde bisher generell und interdisziplinär nicht debattiert. Dies wurde bei einer Tagung an der Universität Metz in Kooperation mit den Universitäten Paris III/Sorbonne-Nouvelle und Wien vom 24.-26. Oktober 2002 als Abschluß eines langjährigen Projekts nachgeholt, dessen Zwischenbilanzen vorliegen: Satire - Parodie - Pamphlet - Caricature de 1848 à 1914 (Publications de l'Université de Rouen, 1998), Satire in Österreich (1914-1938) und Österreich (1945-2000): Das Land der Satire (Peter Lang, 1999 und 2002). Die unterschiedlichsten Kunstrichtungen und Infrastrukturen, die durch die Diversität der Diskurse, die Arbeitsbedingungen der Exilanten, der Remigranten und der Assimilierten gegeben waren, kamen als Träger und institutionelle Parameter in Frage. So wurde nach der Untersuchung der «geknebelten Satire» (1848-1914), der «befreiten, aber später bedrohten Satire» (1918-1938), der «totalen Satire» (1945-2000) auch nach den spezifischen Charakteristika der «exilierten, (r)emigrierten, assimilierten Satire» bis zur dritten Generation geforscht, insofern auch sie epochal, ideologisch, mentalitätsgeschichtlich abhängig blieb. Es geht um die Bedrängnis, den Bezug zur Satire und die Identität derer, die als «Österreicher» in aller Welt unterkamen, weil sie vor dem deutschen NS-Regime fliehen mußten. Diese österreichische «Kulturdiaspora» setzte sich für eine neue Autonomie Österreichs und die Verteidigung der Austriazität ein, und zwar vor und während des Zweiten Weltkrieges sowie in der II. Republik.

The New York Times Book Review

Author	:
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1939
ISBN 10	: IND:30000114364999
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 ( users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book The New York Times Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

VideoHound s Independent Film Guide

Author	: Monica Sullivan
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1998
ISBN 10	: 1578590183
Pages	: 606 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (91 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book VideoHound s Independent Film Guide written by Monica Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only video guide devoted exclusively to movies made outside the Hollywood studio system. Here are reviews of 1,000 films, many of which have moved out of the art houses and into mainstream theaters. The book brims with attitude and humor, trivia, 50 intriguing sidebars of information, and approximately 100 photos.

Beware of Pity Hallam Ed

Author	: S. ZWEIG
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1961
ISBN 10	: OCLC:650438757
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (65 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Beware of Pity Hallam Ed written by S. ZWEIG and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

J dische Aspekte Jung Wiens im Kulturkontext des Fin de si cle

Author	: Sarah Fraiman-Morris
Publisher	: ISSN
Release Date	: 2005
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015060568683
Pages	: 148 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (91 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book J dische Aspekte Jung Wiens im Kulturkontext des Fin de si cle written by Sarah Fraiman-Morris and published by ISSN. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit der jüdischen Identität der österreichischen Dichter und Denker Arthur Schnitzler, Stefan Zweig, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Karl Kraus und Theodor Herzl im Kulturkontext und in der Kulturkrise des österreichischen Fin de Siècle. Sie schöpften alle mehr oder weniger bewusst aus einem reichen jüdischen Erbe, von dem sie sich entweder absetzten (Kraus, Zweig) oder dem sie sich wieder zuwandten (Beer-Hofmann, Herzl). Die dynamischen Spannungen, welche sich aus den Wechselwirkungen zwischen dem Absorbieren österreichischer Kultur einerseits und dem Geprägtsein von jahrhundertelanger jüdischer Tradition und deren Werten andererseits ergeben, finden ihren Ausdruck in unterschiedlichen Reaktionen der paradigmatisch für alle europäischen Juden stehenden hier untersuchten österreichisch-jüdischen Persönlichkeiten auf die Kultur und Kulturkrise des Fin de Siècle.

Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971

Author	: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1979
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015082911903
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (91 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: