Hans W. Cohn

Else Lasker-Schuler

The Broken World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1974 book was the first full-length treatment in English of the poetry of Else Lasker-Schuler (1869-1945), a German-Jewish poet who died in exile in Jerusalem. The aim of the author, a practising psychologist, was to see poetry as an expression of the deeper urges of the psyche.

Produktdetails

• Anglica Germanica Series 2
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9780521168366
• ISBN-10: 0521168368
• Artikelnr.: 31986523

Inhaltsangabe

Prefatory note
Abbreviations
Part I. Introduction
Part II. A Biographical Outline: 1. Myth and reality
2. Childhood
3. Marriage
4. Friends
5. Paul
6. Emigration
7. Jerusalem
Part III. The Swing of the Pendulum: 1. The backward movement: withdrawal: i. Disappointment and resentment
ii. Despair and isolation
iii. Escape into fantasy
iv. Preoccupation with death
2. The forward movement: outgoing: i. Longing for contact
ii. The erotic encounter
iii. The search for God
Biographical data
Select bibliography
Index
Diagram: the swing of the pendulum.