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        November 2011

        Monsieur Teste

        by Paul Valéry, Bernd Schwibs, Max Rychner, Achim Russer, Bernhard Böschenstein

        Monsieur Teste, das ist die berühmteste Figur, die Paul Valéry erfunden hat, eine der wenigen Schlüsselfiguren der Moderne überhaupt. Rilke sah in dem schmalen Büchlein die »stärkste Romanessenz, die je destilliert worden ist«. Durch Jahrzehnte hat sich Valéry nicht von seiner Erfindung trennen können und die ersten Seiten (aus dem Jahre 1896) durch stets neue Einfälle ergänzt und abgerundet. Monsieur Teste – das ist Paul Valéry (1871–1945) selbst mit seinem Drang nach Klarheit und Unabhängigkeit des Denkens. »Der fremde Blick auf die Dinge, der Blick eines Menschen, der nicht versteht, der außerhalb dieser Welt steht, Auge an der Grenze zwischen Sein und Nichtsein – ist der des Denkers. Und auch der des Sterbenden, des Menschen, der den Verstand verliert. Worin der Denker ein Sterbender ist, oder ein Lazarus, beliebig. Nicht ganz beliebig.«

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        June 1989

        Novelle

        Mit Federzeichnungen von Max Liebermann und einem Nachwort von Paul Stöcklein

        by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Max Liebermann, Paul Stöcklein

        Johann Wolfgang Goethe, am 28. August 1749 in Frankfurt am Main geboren, absolvierte ein Jurastudium und trat dann in den Regierungsdienst am Hof von Weimar ein. 1773 veröffentlichte er Götz von Berlichingen (anonym) und 1774 Die Leiden des jungen Werthers. Es folgte eine Vielzahl weiterer Veröffentlichungen, zu den berühmtesten zählen Italienische Reise (1816/1817), Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1798) und Faust (1808). Johann Wolfgang Goethe starb am 22. März 1832 in Weimar.

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        January 1998

        »Paul Valéry – Glück, Dämon, Verrückter«

        Tagebuch 1920–1928

        by Catherine Pozzi, Max Looser, Max Looser

        "Im Juni 1920 lernt Catherine Pozzi Paul Valéry kennen. Er ist seit zwanzig Jahren verheiratet und hat drei Kinder. Es beginnen acht Jahre einer notgedrungen heimlichen, aber jeden Tag erneuerten und wieder in Frage gestellten Beziehung; acht Jahre der abgenötigten und unhaltbaren Versprechen; Pozzi und Valéry erleiden »den Tod und die Leidenschaft« ihrer Liebe; aber auch acht Jahre der gemeinsamen Arbeit, Lektüre und Forschung; acht Jahre eines intellektuellen und philosophischen Zwiegesprächs unter Gleichen."

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2011

        Containing trauma

        Nursing work in the First World War

        by Christine Hallett, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne

        In this lucid and cogently-argued book, Christine Hallett explores the nature of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War. She argues that nurses found meaning in their complex and stressful work by identifying it as a process of 'containing trauma'. Broad in its scope and detailed in its research, the book analyses the work of nurses from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and the United States of America. It draws on highly personal writings: letters and diaries drawn from archives and libraries throughout the world. This wide-ranging book explores a range of treatment scenarios, from the Western and Eastern Fronts to the Eastern Mediterranean, Mesopotamia and India. It considers both the efforts of nurses to provide physical, emotional and moral containment to their patients, and the work they did to maintain their own physical and emotional integrity. ;

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        September 2021

        Paul Valéry: Dialoge und Theater

        by Paul Valéry, Karl Alfred Blüher, Rainer Maria Rilke, Eliane Blüher, Friedhelm Kemp, Carlo Schmidt, Karl August Horst, Franz Wurm, Max Looser

        Band 2 der Gesamtausgabe enthält Valérys Dialoge und Theaterstücke von 1920 bis 1945. Die dem Sokratischen Dialog nachempfundenen Streitgespräche vermitteln einen Eindruck der weitreichenden Interessen Valérys und loten kontrovers Formen künstlerischen Schaffens aus. Auf die Dialoge folgen die Fragmente Mein Faust, das Melodram Amphion sowie theoretische Schriften zum Theater. Mit seinen unvollendet gebliebenen Stücken des Faust-Zyklus knüpft Valéry an Goethe an und versetzt die Figuren, mit ihrem Streben nach Erweiterung der rationalen Fähigkeiten und nach totaler Beherrschung von Natur und Welt, ins 20. Jahrhundert. Wie im gesamten Werk Valérys bedingt auch hier die mit philosophischem Gedankengut aufgeladene Sprache die Neuverhandlung des Stoffes.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2010

        The secret battle

        Emotional survival in the great war

        by Michael Roper, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne

        What did home mean to British soldiers and how did it help them to cope with the psychological strains of the Great War? Family relationships lie at the heart of this book. It explores the contribution letters and parcels from home played in maintaining the morale of this largely young, amateur army. And it shows how soldiers, in their turn, sought to adapt domestic habits to the trenches. Pursuing the unconscious clues within a rich collection of letters and memoirs with the help of psychoanalytical ideas, including those formulated by the veteran tank commander Wilfred Bion, this study asks fundamental questions about the psychological resources of this generation of young men. It reveals how the extremities of battle exposed the deepest emotional ties of childhood, and went on marking the post-war domestic lives of those who returned. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2016

        The People's Armies

        A history of the Greek resistance

        by Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne, Spiros Tsoutsoumpis

        The people's armies discusses one of the most troubled and fascinating aspects of modern Greek and European history: the anti-axis resistance. It is a pioneering history of the men and women who waged the struggle against the axis as members of the armed partisans of ELAS and EDES. Using a wide range of previously unused sources, the book reconstructs daily life in the guerrilla armies and explores the complex reasons that led the partisans to enlist and fight. It also discusses the relations between the guerrillas and the civilian population, and examines how the guerrillas' experience of combat, hardship and loss shaped their understanding of their task and social attitudes. The book makes fascinating reading both for academics and for lay readers who are interested in modern Greek history, military history and the history of the Second World War. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2013

        Civvies

        Middle–class men on the English Home Front, 1914–18

        by Laura Ugolini, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne

        The history of the First World War continues to attract enormous interest. However, most attention remains concentrated on combatants, creating a misleading picture of wartime Britain: one might be forgiven for assuming that by 1918, the country had become virtually denuded of civilian men and particularly of middle-class men who - or so it seems - volunteered en masse in the early months of war. In fact, the majority of middle-class (and other) men did not enlist, but we still know little about their wartime experiences. Civvies thus takes a different approach to the history of the war and focuses on those middle-class English men who did not join up, not because of moral objections to war, but for other (much more common) reasons, notably age, family responsibilities or physical unfitness. In particular, Civvies questions whether, if serviceman were the apex of manliness, were middle-class civilian men inevitably condemned to second-class, 'unmanly' status? ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2007

        Paris and the Commune 1871–78

        The politics of forgetting

        by Bertrand Taithe, Colette Wilson, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne

        Despite the scholarship and political activism devoted to keeping the memory of the Paris Commune alive, there still remains much ignorance both in France and elsewhere, about the traumatic civil war of 1871; some 20,000 to 35,000 people were killed on the streets of Paris in just the final week of the conflict. Colette Wilson identifies a critical blind-spot in French studies and employs new critical approaches to neglected texts, marginalised aspects of the illustrated press, early photography and a selection of novels by Emile Zola. This book will be of interest to students and academics studying France in the nineteenth century from a number of different perspectives war and revolution studies, cultural studies, history and cultural memory, literature, art history, photography, the illustrated press, city studies and human geography. The book will appeal equally to all lovers of Paris who wish to know and understand more about the city's turbulent past. ;

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