A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard

A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard
Author: Matthias Konzett
Publisher: Camden House
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781571132161

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New essays by leading scholars on major aspects of the most significant Austrian writer of the postwar generation.

'Hitler's First Victim'?

'Hitler's First Victim'?
Author: Judith Beniston
Publisher:
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2003
Genre: Austria
ISBN:

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The writings in this volume represent a variety of ethical and artistic responses to the notion of Austria as collective victim. -- introd.

Thomas Bernhard's Afterlives

Thomas Bernhard's Afterlives
Author: Olaf Berwald
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2020-10-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501351532

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In his prose fiction, memoirs, poetry, and drama, Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989)--one of the 20th century's most uniquely gifted writers--created a new and radical style, seemingly out of thin air. His books never “tell a story” in the received sense. Instead, he rages on the page, he rants and spews vitriol about the moral failures of his homeland, Austria, in the long amnesiac aftermath of the Second World War. Yet this furious prose, seemingly shapeless but composed with unparalleled musicality, and taxing by conventional standards, has been powerfully echoed in many writers since Bernhard's death in 1989. These explorers have found in Bernhard's singular accomplishment new paths for the expression of life and truth. Thomas Bernhard's Afterlives examines the international mobilization of Bernhard's style. Writers in Italian, German, Spanish, Hungarian, English, and French have succeeded in making Bernhard's Austrian vision an international vision. This book tells that story.

Joel-Francois Durand in the Mirror Land

Joel-Francois Durand in the Mirror Land
Author: Jonathan W. Bernard
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2011-12-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 029580114X

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The second part of this volume comprises four essays on Durand’s music, contributed by three of his former composition students -- Christian Asplund, Eric Flesher, and Ryan M. Hare -- and by his colleague, music theorist Jonathan W. Bernard, who has also edited and introduced this absorbing portrait of the composer.

Correction

Correction
Author: Thomas Bernhard
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2003
Genre: Genius
ISBN: 009944254X

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Considered by many critics to be Bernhard's masterpiece, "Correction" is a cunningly crafted and unforgettable meditation on the tension between the desire for perfection and the knowledge that it is unattainable.

A Companion to Continental Philosophy

A Companion to Continental Philosophy
Author: Simon Critchley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 706
Release: 1998-06-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0631190139

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Covering the complete development of post-Kantian Continental philosophy, this volume serves as an essential reference work for philosophers and those engaged in the many disciplines that are integrally related to Continental and European Philosophy.

Walking Through History

Walking Through History
Author: Katya Krylova
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783034308458

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<B>This book was the winner of the 2011 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in German Studies.<BR> The post-war landscape of Europe is unthinkable without the voices of the Austrian writers Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) and Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989). Their work, coming after the devastation wrought by the Second World War and the Holocaust, is rooted in a specifically Austrian context of repression of this traumatic historical legacy. In post-war Austria, discourse on the recent past may have been dominated by silence, but the legacy of this past was all too apparent in the country's ruined and speedily reconstructed cityscapes. <BR> This book investigates Bachmann's and Bernhard's treatment of two fundamental aspects of the Austrian historical legacy: the trauma of the war and the desire to return to an ideal homeland, known as 'Haus Osterreich'. Following a methodology based on Freud and Benjamin, this comparative study demonstrates that the confrontation with Austria's troubled history occurs through the protagonists' ambivalent encounter with the landscape or cityscape that they inhabit, travel or return to. The book demonstrates the centrality of topography on both thematic and structural levels in the authors' prose works, as a mode of confronting the past and making sense of the present."

The Elementary Particles

The Elementary Particles
Author: Michel Houellebecq
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2001-11-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0375727019

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An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence. Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno, the older, has become a raucously promiscuous hedonist himself, while Michel is an emotionally dead molecular biologist wholly immersed in the solitude of his work. Each is ultimately offered a final chance at genuine love, and what unfolds is a brilliantly caustic and unpredictable tale. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne.

Transmission Electron Microscopy

Transmission Electron Microscopy
Author: C. Barry Carter
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2016-08-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319266519

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This text is a companion volume to Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Textbook for Materials Science by Williams and Carter. The aim is to extend the discussion of certain topics that are either rapidly changing at this time or that would benefit from more detailed discussion than space allowed in the primary text. World-renowned researchers have contributed chapters in their area of expertise, and the editors have carefully prepared these chapters to provide a uniform tone and treatment for this exciting material. The book features an unparalleled collection of color figures showcasing the quality and variety of chemical data that can be obtained from today’s instruments, as well as key pitfalls to avoid. As with the previous TEM text, each chapter contains two sets of questions, one for self assessment and a second more suitable for homework assignments. Throughout the book, the style follows that of Williams & Carter even when the subject matter becomes challenging—the aim is always to make the topic understandable by first-year graduate students and others who are working in the field of Materials Science Topics covered include sources, in-situ experiments, electron diffraction, Digital Micrograph, waves and holography, focal-series reconstruction and direct methods, STEM and tomography, energy-filtered TEM (EFTEM) imaging, and spectrum imaging. The range and depth of material makes this companion volume essential reading for the budding microscopist and a key reference for practicing researchers using these and related techniques.