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  1. The Consolations of Writing
    Literary Strategies of Resistance from Boethius to Primo Levi
    Author: Zim, Rivkah
    Published: [2014]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy. This... more

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    Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy. This classic philosophical statement of late antiquity has had an enduring influence on Western thought. It is also the earliest example of what Rivkah Zim identifies as a distinctive and vitally important medium of literary resistance: writing in captivity by prisoners of conscience and persecuted minorities.The Consolations of Writing reveals why the great contributors to this tradition of prison writing are among the most crucial figures in Western literature. Zim pairs writers from different periods and cultural settings, carefully examining the rhetorical strategies they used in captivity, often under the threat of death. She looks at Boethius and Dietrich Bonhoeffer as philosophers and theologians writing in defense of their ideas, and Thomas More and Antonio Gramsci as politicians in dialogue with established concepts of church and state. Different ideas of grace and disgrace occupied John Bunyan and Oscar Wilde in prison; Madame Roland and Anne Frank wrote themselves into history in various forms of memoir; and Jean Cassou and Irina Ratushinskaya voiced their resistance to totalitarianism through lyric poetry that saved their lives and inspired others. Finally, Primo Levi's writing after his release from Auschwitz recalls and decodes the obscenity of systematic genocide and its aftermath.A moving and powerful testament, The Consolations of Writing speaks to some of the most profound questions about life, enriching our understanding of what it is to be human Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- PART I. In Defense of Civilization -- CHAPTER 1. The Disciplines of Reason and Lyric Poetry -- CHAPTER 2. Creative Dialogues with Textual Partners, Past and Present -- PART II. Preservation of Self -- CHAPTER 3. Memory and Self-Justification: Images of Grace and Disgrace Abounding -- CHAPTER 4. Memorial Narratives as Salvation for the Feminine Self -- CHAPTER 5. The Consolations of Imagination and Lyric Poetry -- PART III. Testimony for Mankind -- CHAPTER 6. With Hindsight and Beyond Resistance -- Conclusion: Beyond Testimony -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

     

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  2. Irene Nemirovsky: A Jewish-Russian Inter-War Writer
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9783659564239; 3659564230
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    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; France; Author; Jewish; French Revolution; anti-Semitism; Ukraine; Jew; Irène Némirovsky; borderlands theory; Dreyfuss Affair; Storm in June; Stavisky Affair; Leon Blume; Leon Nemirovsky; Holocaust; (VLB-WN)1550: Geschichte
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  3. The French Revolution and German industrialization
    the new institutional economics rewrites history
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  IAMO, Halle (Saale)

    Our purpose here is to challenge the "big-bang" approach to economic history in which some alleged institutional imposition - a deus machine - is claimed to launch a series of new economic behaviors. This so-called prime mover is then carried forward... more

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    Our purpose here is to challenge the "big-bang" approach to economic history in which some alleged institutional imposition - a deus machine - is claimed to launch a series of new economic behaviors. This so-called prime mover is then carried forward by the inexorable forces of path dependency to change the course of history. The specific creation story under investigation here is the French Revolution and the subsequent Napoleonic conquest of parts of Germany. We show that recent efforts to re-write German economic history using this theoretical model cannot be supported by the abundant and concerted empirical evidence.

     

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    Language: English
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    Series: Discussion paper / Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies ; 149
    Subjects: Institutioneller Wandel; Politische Unruhen; Industrialisierung; Landwirtschaftliche Entwicklung; Politische Reform; Wirtschaftsgeschichte; Deutschland (bis 1945); Frankreich; Französische Revolution; Preußische Reformen; Industrialisierung; institutional change; French Revolution; Germany; Prussian reforms; agricultural development; industrialization
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