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	Broch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The distribution of brochs is centred on north west Scotland, the Hebrides and Northern Isles although isolated examples occur in the borders (for example Edin's Hall Broch) and near Stirling.
		It was originally thought that early in the use of a broch (from the middle of the 1st millennium BC until the early 3rd century AD) it would probably have been used purely as a defensive structure, a place of refuge for the community and their livestock.
		Brochs were usually located close to arable land and a source of water (some have deep wells or natural springs rising within their central space).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Broch (797 words)

	Hermann Broch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With the annexation of Austria by the Nazis (1938), Broch was arrested, but a movement organized by friends - including James Joyce - managed to have him released and allowed to emigrate; first to Britain and then to the United States.
		Hermann Broch died in 1951 in New Haven, Connecticut.
		This great, difficult novel, in which reality and hallucination, poetry and prose are inextricably mingled, reenacts the last hours of life of the Roman poet Virgil, in the port of Brundisium (Brindisi), where he accompanied Augustus, his decision to burn his Aeneid, frustrated by the emperor, and his final reconciliation with his destiny.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hermann_Broch (410 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Hermann Broch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hermann Broch is considered one of the leading European novelists of the first part of the 20th century: a contemporary of James Joyce (with whom he was often compared), of André Gide, Thomas Mann and Robert Musil.
		Broch was born on 1 November 1886 in Vienna as the eldest son of the Jewish textile merchant Josef Broch and his wife Johanna.
		Broch projected the resulting inferno onto Virgil’s psyche: on his deathbed Virgil recognizes the futility of the writer’s attempts to prevent the crisis of the millennium.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5478 (2584 words)

	First World War.com - Prose & Poetry - Hermann Broch
		Broch's attempts to reconcile the scientific worldview with a mystical conception of experience is at times reminiscent of his Austrian contemporary Robert Musil, who also came to literature after first pursuing a technical and commercial career.
		Broch was among those intellectuals who were convinced of the decay of the West, but he hoped for a rebirth of Western culture.
		Although Broch had converted to Catholicism as a young man, at the time of his death he was planning a return to the Judaism of his childhood.
	www.firstworldwar.com /poetsandprose/broch.htm (1401 words)

	Orkneyjar - The Broch Builders of Orkney
		The fact that brochs across Scotland are built to practically the same design led to the theory that they were the work of travelling master craftsmen.
		This may have continued as far as the continual maintenance of the broch, which, it has been suggested, could have been organised to reinforce the superiority of the broch owner and maintain the social order within the village.
		As the brochs were abandoned, their towering walls were often dismantled, providing a source of building material for the new dwellinghouses.
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/brochs/brochbuilders.htm (768 words)

	Gaddis Annotations - JR - Hermann Broch's Sleepwalkers - NY Times Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hermann Broch undertook ''The Death of Virgil'' (1945), a fictional vision rivaled only by ''Finnegans Wake,'' because the radio station that commissioned him in the mid-30's to address the problem of literature at the end of a cultureal epoch insisted on a story rather than a lecture.
		Broch initially wandered into fiction out of what he called an ''impatience for cognition.'' Born in 1886, he was a product of that fin de siecle Vienna that he analyzed devastatingly in his brilliant study ''Hugo von Hofmannsthal and His Time'' (recently available in English).
		Broch does not admire Huguenau, but he presents this whooy value-free man as ''the only adequate child of his age'' adn the inveitable harbinger of fascism.
	www.williamgaddis.org /jr/brochsleeptimesrev.shtml (991 words)

	broch - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about broch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		All brochs show the same basic construction, though there may be a difference in detail.
		No broch has been found complete in its upper parts, but the height can be estimated by the diameter and thickness of the walls at the base.
		The broch on Mousa in the Shetlands is an exceptionally fine example.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /broch (330 words)

	brochs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Entrance to a broch was gained from a narrow passage through the wall and led to an inner structure which was similar to the homes surrounding it.
		The broch of Gurness is a fine example of a typical broch tower and village in Scotland.
		Sometime around 100 CE the popularity of brochs had declined to the point where the broch of Gurness was slowly abandoned when the tower suffered a complete collapse for the last time.
	www.gettysburg.edu /academics/english/britain/celtic/brochs.htm (1039 words)

	The Broch o' Gurness, Evie
		During the years of its occupation, a number of alterations were made to the interior of the broch but the original rectangular hearth and an underground chamber containing a spring-filled water tank are still clearly visible today.
		With the broch abandoned, the village also fell out of use, as the population decreased, or drifted away to settle elsewhere.
		The remains of the Broch o' Gurness are found on an north-eastern shore of the Orkney Mainland, at a place known as Aikerness, in the parish of Evie.
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/brochs/gurness (923 words)

	Broch of Gurness Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		The Broch of Gurness is signposted from the A966 near Evie.
		Externally the broch was 20m in diameter and may have reached a height of 10m.
		The village that surrounds the broch is more difficult to visualise than the broch itself, walls are low and in places fragmentary, and internal furnishings appear as sometimes little more than piles of stones.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /westmainland/brochofgurness (1181 words)

	Waggish: Elias Canetti and Hermann Broch in Conversation
		Waggish: Elias Canetti and Hermann Broch in Conversation
		But the general positions are probably accurate: Broch as the individualist who is very lost about the state of the world and wishes he could go back to a less international, smaller time, and Canetti as the twentieth-century intellectual determined to address things on their own terms--or rather, what Canetti perceived as their own terms.
		Broch's "weakness" is not any reticence to say bold things, but an inability to see any prospect of a golden age coming out of cultural and industrial modernism.
	www.waggish.org /2003/02/elias_canetti_and_hermann_broch_in_conversation.html (1290 words)

	Stones of Scotland - Gurness broch
		The broch is solid-based, and its dimensions suggest that it once reached a considerable height, although at some point its upper sections had been dismantled, probably to provide the quantities of building stone necessary for the surrounding buildings.
		The Gurness broch has survived to a maximum height of only about 3.5 m (11,5 feet), but its present state proves the success of its location, for the site was inhabited on and off for some 900 years.
		The broch and its outer defences were probably built in the 1st century AD and the village developed subsequently.
	www.stonepages.com /scotland/gurness.html (308 words)

	Geist and Zeitgeist - Hermann Broch
		Broch's background -- in business, in philosophy and mathematics -- and his intense interest in other fields (including sociology and psychology) are reflected in his fiction, but come much more obviously to the fore in his essays.
		Awareness that Broch was such a masterful practitioner of creative art also lends additional credence to his analytic approach, its success in itself a validation of his ideas.
		Broch is a writer well worth looking up to, a firm believer in the power and importance of literature (and a man who, amazingly, was able to create fictions that stood up to his high ideals).
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/brochh/geist.htm (1370 words)

	The Sleepwalkers - Hermann Broch
		On the contrary, Broch's moral seriousness gives the novel a vitality that raises it from the level of historical fiction.
		Note too the publication history and reception of this enormous and difficult novel: though Broch was unknown at the time, the book was immediately translated into English and widely reviewed and acclaimed.
		Austrian author Hermann Broch was born 1 November 1886, and died in New Haven, 30 May, 1951.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/brochh/schlafw.htm (978 words)

	Breckness Broch: The Excavation of an Iron Age well (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From this evidence it is assumed that the collapse occurred during the occupation of the broch tower.
		The few finds retrieved from the exposed section of broch ditch to the west are similar to those found in the well. The small pieces of evidence together add up to a picture of life within the broch that was not dissimilar to other Iron Age settlements along the Orcadian west coast.
		Indeed by the medieval period the broch had largely disappeared under accumulated deposits of occupation and sand, and that the area above it was eventually chosen for a burial ground and the location for Bishop Graham’s house in the seventeenth century (Fig 2).
	www.orkneydigs.org.uk /dhl/papers/bbs (3891 words)

	Alibris: Hermann Broch
		Hermann Broch achieved international recognition for his brilliant use of innovative literary techniques to present the entire range of human experience, from the biological to the metaphysical.
		Murder, lust, shame, hypocrisy, and suicide are at the center of The Guiltless, Hermann Broch's novel about the disintegration of European society in the first three decades of the twentieth century.
		Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is remembered among English-speaking readers for his novels "The Sleepwalkers and "The Death of Virgil, and among German-speaking readers for his novels as well as his works on moral and political philosophy, his aesthetic theory, and his varied criticism.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Broch,Hermann (466 words)

	Dun Carloway Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		It was built at a time when brochs were already starting to be replaced by other forms of housing less demanding on scarce resources (and wood in particular), and it is not known how long it remained in use.
		As you round the broch to the entrance, on the north side, you are presented with a different picture.
		Inside the broch a number of chambers are accessible at ground floor level, an area which would probably have been used to house farm animals.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /lewis/duncarloway (724 words)

	H.F. Broch de Rothermann :: Hermann Broch
		The other, Broch's son, H.F. Broch de Rothermann, very kindly wrote back that he was delighted with my inquiry about his father, and that he would be pleased to meet me. Thus began (ca.
		They replied that they were interested, and I sent them the letters (including that architecture design "Broch's son" had once sent to me), and also an audiotape I had recorded of one of our conversations [I say at least one ignorantandstupid thing on the tape].
		H.F. Broch de Rothermann -- whose business was simultaneous translation -- was one of the first persons I encountered who interpreted more constructively and hopefully than hurtfully and disappointingly the living "text" I was (as of this writing, still am...).
	www.users.cloud9.net /~bradmcc/broch.html (1997 words)

	Stones of Scotland - Dun Carloway broch
		The broch's typical double wall is well preserved, showing how tiers of galleries were linked by a stone staircase within the hollow wall.
		A series of deposits was uncovered, interpreted as a succession of hearths, probably later than the main period of the broch's use.
		From the lack of metalworking slag or domestic refuse, and the abundance of vessel sherds, the cell was thought to have been used for the firing of pottery.
	www.stonepages.com /scotland/duncarloway.html (157 words)

	The Broch of Gurness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Within the broch, alterations occurred over the years of its occupation but the original rectangular hearth and an underground cellar containing a spring-filled water tank are still clearly visible.
		Surrounding the broch and filling all the space available between it and the outer defences is a sprawl of stone dwellings which probably housed a community of up to forty people.
		The broch was accessed by an entrance causeway on the eastern side of the settlement.
	www.orkney.org /tradition/gurness.htm (348 words)

	AllRefer.com - Hermann Broch (German Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Broch is one of the masters of European modernism.
		Influenced by Immanuel Kant and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Kraus, and the Vienna Circle, his trilogy Die Schlafwandler (1931–32; tr.
		Also a mathematician and businessman, Broch lived in the United States after 1938.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Broch-He.html (238 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music in the Works of Broch, Mann, and Kafka: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW...rewards the reader with profound insights that are bound to expand his or her view of Broch and Kafka.
		Music In The Works Of Broch, Mann, And Kafka by John A. Hargraves is a serious, exhaustively researched studies of great literary works such as "The Death of Virgil," "The Sleepwalkers," and "Doctor Faustus" and the role music plays within the depths of the written words.
		Erudite, persuasively written and adhering to the rigorous demands of scholarship, Music In The Works Of Broch, Mann, And Kafka is a college-level and highly recommended literary study that lends a deepening appreciation to the subtle nuances of three great writers in German literature, music, linguistics, and culture.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1571132082 (458 words)

	Broch, Hermann on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Influenced by Immanuel Kant and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Kraus, and the Vienna Circle, his trilogy Die Schlafwandler (1931-32; tr.
		Hermann Broch: El destino de un escritor.(TT: Hermann Broch: Fate of a writer.)
		Hermann Broch, Visionary in Exile: The Yale 2001 Broch Symposium.(Book Review)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Broch-H1e.asp (265 words)

	Mousa Broch
		Mousa Broch is the finest surviving example of a 2,000 year old Iron Age tower, or broch.
		It was one of about 120 built throughout Shetland as times became more troubled.
		Mentioned in the sagas as an eloping lovers' hideout, Mousa Broch is one of the wonders of European archaeology.
	www.shetland-heritage.co.uk /brochures/area_pages/south_mainland/mousa_broch.htm (137 words)

	Broch - Compare Prices, Reviews and Buy at NexTag - Price - Review
		Towers in the North: The Brochs of Scotland
		Hermann Broch, Visionary in Exile: The 2001 Yale Symposium
		Scalloway: A Broch, Late Iron Age Settlement and Medieval Cemetery in Shetland
	www.nextag.com /broch/search-html (153 words)

	Journal of European Studies: Hermann Broch, Visionary in Exile: The Yale 2001 Broch Symposium.(Book Review)@ HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hermann Broch, Visionary in Exile: The Yale 2001 Broch Symposium.
		Yale University, where Hermann Broch was a professor when he died in 1951 and where his papers are kept, has since 1986 hosted several conferences on his work.
		The proceedings of the most recent one have now been edited by Paul Michael Lutzeler, whose lifelong dedication to...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:131200410&refid=holomed_1 (219 words)

	Hermann Broch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Another review of The Sleepwalkers, with useful links
		The authors list is available on this page.
		You can change the article only on this page.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Hermann_Broch (417 words)

	Glossary of Terms
		Thick dry stone walls define a living space containing shelters or timber framed houses.
		The walls can form an enclosure (such as a broch or a small hillfort), or simply bisect a section of promontory land.
		The two upright standing stones which are placed either side of the recumbent stone in some Scottish stone circles.
	www.bath.ac.uk /~prsrlp/kernunos/kgloss.htm (1279 words)

	Hermann Broch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Influenced by Immanuel Kant and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Kraus, and the Vienna Circle, his trilogy
		German literature: The Twentieth Century - The Twentieth Century Symbolism, Impressionism, and Expressionism Antinaturalistic movements grew...
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