Outsiders : a study in life and letters / Hans Mayer ; translated by Denis M. Sweet.
| Author/creator | Mayer, Hans |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1982. |
| Description | xx, 434 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Aussenseiter. English |
| Contents | [1.] Judith and Delilah: The second sex and its outsiders -- The scandal of Joan of Arc: Schiller, Shaw, Brecht, Vishnevskii -- Judith as bourgeois heroine -- The bourgeois way of life as an alternative -- Excursus: Otto Weininger, Sex and character -- Delilah as bourgeois vamp -- Women's liberation and Norman Mailer -- The world of images of women -- [2.] Sodom: A chronicle of murders and scandal -- Christopher Marlowe and King Edward II of England -- Winckelmann's death and the discovery of a double life -- The conflict between Heine and Platen -- Alternatives in the nineteenth century -- Concerning the typology of homosexual literature -- The alternatives of Klaus Mann and Maurice Sachs -- The turning point of Jean Genet -- [3.] Shylock: From Ahasuerus to Shylock -- The Jew of Malta and the Jew of Venice -- The wise Nathan and the bandit Spiegelberg: the antinomies of Jewish emancipation in Germany -- The bourgeois Shylock -- Jewish figures in the bourgeois novel -- Jewish self-hate -- Comrade Shylock -- Hatred of Jews after Auschwitz. |
| General note | Translation of: Aussenseiter. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 82007219 |
| ISBN | 0262131757 |
| ISBN | 9780262131759 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN56.5.O95 M3713 1982 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |