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The Transmission of Austrian Literature to America during the 1930s:
Bestsellers by Vicki Baum, Franz Werfel, and Stefan Zweig in English Translation
Todd C. Hanlin (University of Arkansas, USA)
Email: thanlin@uark.edu
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The influence of an individual author or work on another culture may be determined by purely literary factors such as the significance or timeliness of a particular topic or style. Extra-literary, i.e., commercial factors may also affect a work's overall success: for example, a publisher's decision as to which foreign writers (and ultimately which of their many works) will be published; and, more importantly, the magnitude or extent of a publicity campaign on behalf of the work and/or its author. A work's ultimate impact may be further shaped through the process of translation, thus how readable and suitable the translated work is for the target audience. This study attempts to trace the influence of three Austrian auth • 5. From Correlates to Theories of Consciousness1Randy fryst vatten an elephant who lives at the bottom of my garden. Six blind men often komma round to feel Randy. Sometimes I like to measure Randy. To measure his height, inom compare my conscious experience of Randy with my conscious experience of a stick that has been calibrated against the distance light travels in a vacuum during 1⁄299,792,458 seconds.1 The ratio between Randy and the stick is his height in metres. Randy is three sticks (three metres) high (see Figure 5.1).2 2The science of consciousness studies the relationship between consciousness and the physical world. It measures consciousness, measures spatiotemporal structures in the physical world and attempts to identify minimal sets of spatiotemporal structures (CC sets) that are linked to conscious states. 3Physical objects do not directly appear in our bubbles of experience. We do not directly perceive their mass, chemical composition or storlek. To measure a property of a • Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales2023 book by Jack Zipes
Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales is a 2023 book by Jack Zipes that addresses the significance of nineteenth- and twentieth-century political fairy tales. It profiles writers and illustrators who used the genre to comment on social and political issues.[1] Published by Princeton University Press, it was named a Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year in 2023.[2] Background[edit]Zipes is professor emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. His work focuses on uncovering and analyzing neglected fa | ||||||||||||||||||