The third Walpurgis Night : the complete text / Karl Kraus ; translated from the German by Fred Brid...
The third Walpurgis Night : the complete text / Karl Kraus ; translated from the German by Fred Brid...
The third Walpurgis Night : the complete text / Karl Kraus ; translated from the German by Fred Bridgham and Edward Timms ; foreword by Marjorie Perloff.
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Publisher
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]
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Call Numbers
G 2021/2819
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Language
English
German
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Physical Description
Physical content
xxv, 283 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Foreword / by Marjorie Perloff -- Translators' preface -- Introduction -- 1. Stunned by the seizure of power -- 2. The satirist's dilemma -- 3. And what about culture? -- 4. Goebbels, manipulative modernism, and bucolic Jew-baiting -- 5. Political leadership and artistic transfiguration -- 6. Heideg...
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Publisher
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
[2020]
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Summary
"Now available in English for the first time, Austrian satirist and polemicist Karl Kraus's Third Walpurgis Night was written in immediate response to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 but withheld from publication for fear of reprisals against Jews trapped in Germany. Acclaimed when finally published by Kösel Verlag in 1952, it is a devastatingly...
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Full title
The third Walpurgis Night : the complete text / Karl Kraus ; translated from the German by Fred Bridgham and Edward Timms ; foreword by Marjorie Perloff.
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Notes
General note
A Margellos World Republic of Letters book
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
Translated from German.
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©2020
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G 2021/2819
Record Identifier
74VKarMGjPGO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKarMGjPGO
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ISBN
030023600X
9780300236002
DDC
943.086
MMS ID
991024441622002626
