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Created to complement Professor of German Peter J. Burgard’s core course, Literature and Arts C-65, “Repression and Expression: Literature and Art in Fin-de-Siècle Germany and Austria,” the exposition masterfully interweaves visual art and texts read in the course...
...Harvard College Courses would be taken outside of the area of a student’s concentration, while the other distributional requirements could also count for concentration credit, according to Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, a council member...
...pondering how China might begin to escape from its elaborate web of political fictions, one thinks of the gestures of contrition that German leaders have made toward other Europeans. Willy Brandt penitently fell to his knees in the former Warsaw Ghetto; Helmut Kohl reached for the hand of French President Fran?ois Mitterrand in the bloodstained fields of Verdun. Such symbolism is the stuff from which true forgiveness is born and historical credibility restored. The death of Zhao presented one more opportunity for China's leadership to begin the long, slow process of doing something similar. Alas, this challenge...
...troubled, contradictory Frederick, whose commanding presence might otherwise have taken over the book. Bach's hardheaded, self-sufficient genius, Gaines asserts, enabled him "to make his music the sum and pinnacle of all the music of his time and so to prepare the way not just for a distinctively German musical language but for all of Western music...
...support this sweeping thesis, Gaines, a former managing editor of TIME, PEOPLE and LIFE, braids the biographies of Bach and Frederick through alternating chapters, weaving in thick strands of musical analysis, German politics and cultural history. The result is an eloquent and fascinating study, highly debatable at points yet all the more stimulating for that...