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  Enzensberger, Hans Magnus Criticism and Essays
Beginning his literary career in post-World War II Germany, Enzensberger was concerned not only with the state of the German language, which he felt was corrupted by war and tyranny, but with the economic and spiritual state of his country as well.
With the ocean liner as a metaphor for society, Enzensberger comments on the differences between the conditions and fates of poor and rich passengers, and describes events from several perspectives, invoking a number of historical and personal references to extend the implications of his themes.
Enzensberger's use of language, and of modern words in particular, is notable for being concise, accessible and pertinent to the moment, both stylistically and politically.
www.enotes.com /poetry-criticism/enzensberger-hans-magnus   (722 words)

  
 Hans Magnus Enzensberger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hans Magnus Enzensberger (born 11 November 1929 in Kaufbeuren), is a German author, poet, translator, and editor.
Enzensberger studied literature and philosophy at the universities of Erlangen, Freiburg and Hamburg, and at the Sorbonne in Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1955 for a thesis about Clemens Brentano's poetry.
Enzensberger is the older brother of the author Christian Enzensberger.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hans_Magnus_Enzensberger   (410 words)

  
 Enzensberger by R.G. Davis
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, young enough to understand the new left and old enough to be critical of it (b.
Enzensberger is a Marxist who combines new ideas with a great sense of history in his cultural analyses.
Enzensberger is both picking apart the capitalist use of the media while sniping at the use of the media by socialists, yet within a socialist approach.
www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC08folder/Enzensberger.html   (2635 words)

  
 Goethe-Institut Was bleibt? - Enzensberger, Hans Magnus
Enzensberger is well known as a brilliant 'enlightened' poet and as the quintessential sharp-minded contemporary figure - a master of dialectical argumentation, and inventor of concept constructs such as "consciousness- industry", which have both specific appropriateness and wider applications.
At a time when people don't want to hear the epithet 'critical', let alone take it seriously, the texts all show - in an almost infectious way - the pleasure in thinking as critical thinking (in contrast to that self- justified kind of critical thinking which always assumes its own untried assumptions are universally valid).
Enzensberger's accuracy, his witty, never cheap conclusions and punchlines are always achieved by his paradoxical methodology of going briskly against the grain and then unexpectedly switching position more briskly.
www.goethe.de /kue/lit/prj/was/enz/enindex.htm   (278 words)

  
 UPNE - Kiosk: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Michael Hamburger, trs., Hans Magnus Enzensberger, trs.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger is Germany's most important and influential living poet, a lightning rod in a stormy political and cultural landscape.
The Sheep Meadow Press is proud to publish Enzensberger's Kiosk, as well as his Selected Poems, drawn from six volumes of his work, and Lighter Than Air: Moral Poems, translated by Reinhold Grimm.
www.upne.com /1-878818-72-4.html   (183 words)

  
 PEN American Center - Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born in Kaufbeuren, Germany on November 11, 1929.
His main literary work is in poetry and essay, supplemented by excursions into theater, film, opera, radio drama, reportage, and translation, with one or two novels and several books for children thrown in.
Enzensberger's books include Lighter Than Air: Moral Poems, Zig-Zag: The Politics of Culture and Vice Versa, and the mathematical adventure The Number Devil.
www.pen.org /page.php/prmID/1113   (212 words)

  
 UPNE - Selected Poems: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Michael Hamburger, trs., Hans Magnus Enzensberger, trs., Fred Viebahn, trs.
Lawrence Joseph, in his introduction to Kiosk, writes, "Enzensberger, more than any poet of his generation anywhere in the world, comes before the public with his own precepts, codes and taboos.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger has published some 30 volumes.
www.upne.com /1-878818-73-2.html   (201 words)

  
 Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born in Kaufbeuren, Bavaria in 1929.
Enzensberger was a member of Group 47 and in 1957 he made his poetry debut with »verteidigung der wölfe« (t: Defence of the wolves), in which, through clear language and a provocative tone, he embarks on his critical observation of post-war Germany.
In the mid seventies, after volumes of essays and collage-like texts created from documentary materials, Enzensberger turned increasingly towards plays and epic verse, and wrote several pieces expressing critique of progress, among them a classic of German post-war literature, »Der Untergang der Titanic« (1978; t: »The Sinking of the Titanic«, 1980).
www.literaturfestival.com /bios1_3_6_804.html   (606 words)

  
 Enzensberger excerpts
Enzensberger is highly critical of Marshall Mcluhan and others who see a universal enabling force in 'new media'.
Enzensberger unpacks briefly Lefebvre's early definition of spectacular culture, then goes on to find an utopian capacity in it: '...Lefebvre has proposed the concept of the spectacle, the exhibition, the show, to fit the present form of mass consumption.
There is an organization of intersecting instrumentalities which Enzensberger uses to define spectacular culture and the potential for the system to organize behaviors outside the purview of the system itself.
www.basilisk.com /academic/enzensberger.html   (3858 words)

  
 Dialoge zwischen Unsterblichen, Lebendigen und Toten - Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Anachronism is the approach of choice because, as Enzensberger clearly demonstrates, Goethe himself was apart from his time, himself an anachronism, misunderstood, suspiciously regarded, his talent and worth widely doubted.
(Enzensberger also points out that the Goethe-material is especially rewarding because there is such a detailed written record: a day-by-day and even hour-by-hour record left behind by many of the actors of the time in their voluminous correspondence with one another.
Enzensberger has a nice way with words, and he's particularly good at using those of others in his dialogues: the Goethe talk-show is great fun, the Diderot-pieces excellent.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/brd/enzenhm1.htm   (860 words)

  
 Drawbridge Up / Zugbrücke außer Betrieb - Hans Magnus Enzensberger
He notes that rote arithmetic-learning is practically all that is expected of students for much of the time they study maths at school, suggesting that it would be much more sensible to also fostering abstract thinking in children (which, he notes, they are perfectly capable of, and in many cases particularly receptive to).
Enzensberger's enthusiasm for the current golden age of mathematics (and his bafflement at the absurdity of it passing largely unnoticed by the general public) also come through clearly:
German author Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born in 1929.
complete-review.com /reviews/maths/enzenhm.htm   (597 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Kiosk: Livres en anglais: Hans Magnus Enzensberger,Michael Hamburger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Transtromer and Enzensberger are translated (from Swedish and German, respectively), in crisp, powerful English.
Enzensberger's work is presented only in translation, but it doesn't seem likely that you will go wrong trusting translator Hamburger.
Enzensberger is a product of Nazi Nuremberg, a disciple of Marx, and a wry, satiric, rogue with intelligence, who finds poetry in social criticism and a wide range of techno-scientific knowledge.
www.amazon.fr /Kiosk-Hans-Magnus-Enzensberger/dp/1878818724   (603 words)

  
 Hans Magnus Enzensberger Summary
In the following essay about Enzensberger's Der Untergang der Titanic (The Sinking of the Titanic) West analyzes Enzensberger's evocation of the experience aboard the sinking ship and the passengers' final moments before death.
In this essay, Grimm argues that Enzensberger is a practitioner of poetic anarchism, citing the author's fascination with anarchic events, movements, and historical figures, as well as his extreme and sometimes conflicting statements about theoretical aspects of literature.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Warsaw (Poland), 20.05.2006
www.bookrags.com /Hans_Magnus_Enzensberger   (183 words)

  
 Goethe-Institut Current Writing in German - Authors - Enzensberger, Hans Magnus
Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born in 1929 in Bavaria and grew up in Nazi Nuremberg.
Following studies in literature and philosophy in Erlangen, Freiburg, Hamburg and at the Sorbonne in Paris, Enzensberger received his doctorate in 1955.
A poet and children’s book author, Enzensberger has also written for theater, film, opera and radio.
www.goethe.de /ins/us/lp/prj/cwg/aut/at13/enindex.htm   (173 words)

  
 Hans Magnus Enzensberger Criticism
In his review of Enzensberger's Kiosk and Selected Poems, which was translated from the German by Enzensberger and Michael Hamburger, Brady summarizes the poems in the collection and illuminates familiar aspects of Enzensberger's new poetry.
In the following essay, Schultz and Enzensberger discuss his poetry, its hopeful themes, and his use of language in relation to power and politics.
In this essay, Demetz surveys the themes and subjects of Enzensberger's firsth three volumes of poetry.
www.bookrags.com /criticisms/Hans_Magnus_Enzensberger   (313 words)

  
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger: The radical loser - signandsight
The tension between freedom of movement and national self-determination of citizenship within the EU has...
Hans Magnus Enzensberger looks at the kind of ideological trigger required to ignite the radical loser - whether amok killer, murderer or terrorist - and make him explode
www.signandsight.com /features/493.html   (6325 words)

  
 Hans Magnus Enzensberger - Penguin Group (New Zealand) Authors - Penguin Group (New Zealand)
Hans Magnus Enzensberger - Penguin Group (New Zealand) Authors - Penguin Group (New Zealand)
Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born in Nuremburg in 1929 and has resided in Munich since 1979.
He is one of Germany's most eminent authors and has written on a broad range of subjects from politics to poetry.
www.penguin.co.nz /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000023605,00.html   (81 words)

  
 Lannan Foundation - Hans Magnus Enzensberger with Charles Simic, December 11, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lannan Foundation - Hans Magnus Enzensberger with Charles Simic, December 11, 2002
All tickets are handled through the Lensic box office.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, considered Germany's most important living poet, is also a highly regarded essayist, journalist, dramatist, editor, publisher, and translator.
www.lannan.org /lf/rc/event/hans-magnus-enzensberger   (277 words)

  
 Jacket 3 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger - Four poems
Jacket 3 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger - Four poems
Hans Magnus Enzensberger is one of Europe’s leading writers and critical thinkers.
This material is copyright © Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Jacket magazine 1998
jacketmagazine.com /03/enz03.html   (319 words)

  
 Books by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, compare prices
by Reinhold Grimm, Reinhold Grimm (Translator), Hans Magnus Enzensberger
by Michael Hamburger, Michael Hamburger (Translator), Rita Dove (Translator), Fred Viebahn (Translator), Hans Magnus Enzensberger
by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Michael Hamburger, Michael Hamburger (Translator)
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 Search Results for hans magnus enzensberger drawbridge up - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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Drawbridge Up: Mathematics?A Cultural Anathema by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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