Overview

This volume collects the papers presented at a conference that took place in Berkeley, California, in October 1997 in honor of Heinrich Heine's two-hundredth birthday. The theme of that conference was Heine's identity, which was formed and reformed, revised and modified, in relationship to the politics, religion, and nationalism of his era. Several speakers focused on Heine's Jewish identity and most contributions touched on his relationship to the politics of his era. The resulting essays offer a more differentiated understanding of Heine's predicaments and choices, as well as the parameters placed on him by the exigencies of the time. What this volume therefore achieves is not a radically new vision of Heine, but one that recognizes the ambivalences and vacillations, as well as the development and consistency, of his complex identity.

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Author:   Jost Hermand ,  Robert C Holub
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Volume:   26
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9780820441054

ISBN 10:   0820441058
Pages:   199
Publication Date:   01 April 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Jeffrey L. Sammons: Who Did Heine Think He Was? - Christhard Hoffmann: History versus Memory: Heinrich Heine and the Jewish Past - Bluma Goldstein: Heine's Hebrew Melodies: A Politics and Poetics of Diaspora - Robert C. Holub: Confessions of an Apostate: Heine's Conversion and Its Psychic Displacement - Hinrich C. Seeba: Keine Systematie: Heine in Berlin and the Origin of the Urban Gaze - Susanne Zantop: Columbus, Humboldt, Heine, or the Rediscovery of Europe - Jennifer Kapczynski/Kristin Kopp/Paul B. Reitter/Daniel Sakaguchi: The Polish Question and Heine's Exilic Identity - Jost Hermand: Tribune of the People or Aristocrat of the Spirit? Heine's Ambivalence Toward the Masses - Peter Uwe Hohendahl: Heine's Critical Intervention: The Intellectual as Poet.

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The Editors: Jost Hermand is William F. Vilas Research Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests focus on German culture from 1750 to the present, German-Jewish history, and the methodology of cultural studies. His publications on Heine include books on the reception of his work between 1945 and 1975, his early Reisebilder, his liberalism, and his German-Jewish identity. He is also the editor of volume six of the Duesseldorf edition of Heine's works. Robert C. Holub is Professor of German at the University of California-Berkeley, where he teaches German intellectual, cultural, and literary history from 1750 to the present. His publications include books on Heine's reception of German Grecophilia, realism in literature, Juergen Habermas, reception theory, and Friedrich Nietzsche. He is also the co-editor, with Jost Hermand, of the two Heine volumes in the German Library.

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