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Pankaj Mishra är en indisk författare och essäist, som skriver återkommande i bland annat The New York Times, The Guardian och New York Review of Books. I Londo
Kant was one of the most influential thinkers in modern history. His philosophy of morality doesn't just have lofty, theoretical implications; we can apply it to our everyday lives as well.
Hosted by UCC, CELT is Ireland's longest running Humanities Computing project. It has a searchable online textbase consisting of over 15.6 million words, in 1323 contemporary and historical documents from many areas, including literature and the other arts.
On 16 March 1938, at about 22:00, two SA men arrived at the house of prominent Austrian philosopher, historian, journalist and critic Egon Friedell to arrest him. While they were still arguing with his housekeeper, Friedell committed suicide by jumping out of the window. Before leaping, he warned pedestrians walking on the sideway where he hit by shouting "Watch out! Get out of the way!". This was the tragic end of a brilliant mind.
On February 23, 1633, English naval administrator and Member of Parliament Samuel Pepys was born, who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. The detailed private diary Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period.
On November 30, 1835, famous American author Samuel Longhorn Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was born in the tiny village of Florida, Missouri. He is most noted for his humorous novels about the mischievous boys Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and their adventures on the mighty Mississippi River.
On October 19, 1806, the famous German writer, artist, and politician, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, finally got married with his mistress Christiane Vulpius after having lived together quasi-maritally since 1788, to the scandal of the ladies of Weimar and the vexation of Bettina von Arnim-Brentano.
On August 14, 1040 AD, Mac Bethad mac Findlaích, Mormaer of Moray, today better known as Macbeth, killed the Scottish King Duncan I. to become the new King of Scottland. But, he has to commit further murder to maintain his power. So far the story goes. Most of the rest we know from Shakespeare's adaptation of the historical events is merely pure fiction.
Author, journalist, satirist, and critic Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born 70 years ago today. He had a great influence in the literature of the 20th century through his works, most of them dealing with the American Civil War.
Nordisk kvinnolitteraturhistoria är en trespråkig webbportal på danska, svenska och engelska. För första gången presenteras 1000 års kvinnolitteraturhistoria från Sverige, Norge, Danmark, Finland, Färöarna, Island, Grönland och Åland gratis på nätet.
alo ist eine digitale Bibliothek mit mehr als 15.000 frei zugänglichen Dokumenten vom 11. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Bücher, Zeitschriften, Zeitungen, Handschriften, Postkarten, aber auch Dissertationen, Diplomarbeiten und wissenschaftliche Aufsätze - meist mit einem Bezug zu Österreich - stehen in digitalisierter Form oder als PDF zur Verfügung.
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U. Linse. Kriegserlebnis: Der Erste Weltkrieg in der literarischen Gestaltung
und symbolischen Deutung der Nationen, Vandenhoek Ruprecht, Göttingen, (1980)