However, much of the subsequent theoretical and empirical work has focused on second-language use outside of classroom settings and, moreover, on second-language immersion environments over the learning of foreign languages languages whose native communities are remote. What is more, we will conduct field projects and plan larger projects that will drive forward our understanding of this important area of foreign-language learning and teaching.
Example questions that we will tackle are the following: For example, what social messages do they take away from feedback, classroom activities, and interactions with peers? To what extent are learners privy to pedagogical modifications and the rationale behind them? What conclusions do they draw about their current and future selves based on the pedagogical modifications that they notice? What role do extra-curricular activities play? Familiarity with an older Germanic language. This course will examine predominant linguistic trends based on textual evidence during the Early New High German period.
Topics will include phonological, morphological, and syntactic developments from the late thirteenth through the late sixteenth century. Lexical topics and literary or textual types will also be treated. Regional developments will be considered for representative dialect-areas: A variety of texts from each of these areas will provide opportunity to develop fluency in reading and will also provide a basis for topics in linguistic and thematic discussion.
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In addition to commemorating the end of World War I, the symposium will bring together a wide range of internationally known experts to explore not only the war but also the demographic, cultural, and economic upheavals unleashed in the century that followed. The seminar will prepare students to participate actively in the event by looking more closely at the cultural impact of these phenomena, reading and discussing relevant research in history, literature, the arts, sociology, and political science.
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Ein kurtzweilig Lesen von Dil Ulenspiegel. Please contact pmpotter wisc. Please contact hadler wisc. Its proprietor is a hunchbacked psychiatrist, the last of a long line of distinguished but utterly mad financiers and military men. The police have been called in for the second time in two months: The mad man who calls himself Newton sits down with the inspector and tells him in confidence that he's really not Newton, he's Einstein but he doesn't want to make his true identity public because it would upset the other madman who says he's Einstein -and that man is truly insane.
Another madman, Mobius emerges from his room and announces in stentorian tones that King Solomon has just appeared to him in all his glory. When Mobius's wife confronts him to tell she's divorced him and married a Bible-thumping missionary who is now going to take her off to the Marianas, it doesn't faze Mobius. When his nurse falls for him, Mobius cautions her that it is too dangerous for her to love him and then suffocates her. Things become more and more complicated. There are many comic moments in the play but The Physicists is a serious play about a very serious topic: Nuclear proliferation was a major issue then: But has the urgency of this issue faded with the decades?
A quick look at today's world --Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, the threat of pocket bombs-- suggests not. The strengths of the play are its idiosyncratic characters, the plentiful twists and turns of its plot, and hidden puns sprinkled throughout the play: And the Mobius of the play?
Is he an echo of the Mobius who invented the Mobius strip, a two dimensional-strip that doubles back on itself, joining opposite sides of a sheet of paper together in one flat but twisty plane, so that both sides are now really one side? That would certainly be a fitting choice for a play that constantly veers from reality to fantasy and back again.
The Physicists makes you laugh but it also makes you think. Which is not a bad combination for one play! These three toddle into the action as unpredictably as individual gas molecules move in a heated, sealed container as the play utilizes bizarre happenings in an old section of a sanitarium to examine the potential destructive power of physics and by extension, all branches of science and the moral and ethical dilemmas arising from that. Plot twists and turns abound as the main characters -- and some minor ones -- change like chameleons and the contexual frame of reference is turned repeatedly on its head.
As Duerrenmatt says in Point 19, "Within the paradoxical appears reality. Uniquely Playful, Entertaining, Suspenseful, and Thoughtful Three physicists have been confined to a very expensive posh mental institution, Les Cerisiers. He adopted the guise of Newton to avoid upsetting another patient, Ernst Heinrich Ernesti, who claims he is Einstein.
The third, Johann Wilhelm Mobius is himself. As a long term patient, he enjoys frequent visions of King Solomon. I had the great fortune of knowing little about the plot. I was continuously entertained by the playful unraveling of a murder mystery. I urge you to avoid learning more.
The imagination of Durrenmatt is quite remarkable. He weaves an entertainingly unpredictable story. This short play warrants reading more than once, even more than twice, as the Swiss playwright Friedrich Durrenmatt not only entertains us, but explores fundamental questions regarding the role of science in modern society. The Physicists was written in when the world faced the possibility of nuclear war at any moment.
The Physicists has been produced at the London Royal Court Theatre, on Broadway, and by many university theatre departments. I intend to become acquainted with the plays of Friedrich Durrenmatt. But in the first place his personality is not developed in the story, but plays the role of an "apparition" in moments of danger; he is the good spirit or bad conscience according to the need.
From the literary point of view he is merely a motive. In the second place, he lacks historical effectiveness. He remains an isolated figure. Besides, his aversion to dogma does not, like that of the real Anabaptists, stem from a sound Biblicism, but from the modern antithesis between religion and faith, between dogma and life. He has neither church nor brotherhood behind him. He is therefore seen from the modern point of view of "progressive" Protestantism as opposed to the reactionary forces. The Anabaptist Werner is the handyman of enlightened Deism of the 19th century.
Hausrath did not create an ideal historical figure, but rather a historical ideal. Interestingly, Klytia was reprinted at Newton , Kansas , in by the Herald Publishing Company , called the sixth edition, having been run as a serial in Der Herold. Judging from the literary products, the battle for genuine Anabaptism fluctuates, with more turbulence and indecision than in the research itself. Since Wildenbruch there is no historical thread to follow. Sympathy alternates with antipathy. An exception is found in the presentations that know something of the questions posed by history.
Marie Loeper-Hoesella's Der Mattenbauer follows not long after Wildenbruch; of this story Mannhardt could say it was a vindication of the Mennonites. The picture, though friendly, is a mixture of truth and fiction. Fontane was never in America. But although the name of the Mennonite settlement, Nogat-Ehre, is his invention, the story is based upon an actual Mennonite community at Darlington, Oklahoma , as Zieglschmid has shown. The Mennonite Hornbostel, who in some respects resembles a Biblical patriarch, through the course into which Fontane has forced the story for the sake of artistic unity, falls into the schism between love and justice when he receives Lehnert, a murderer who has fled to America, into his home, sees through him, finally accepts him into the church, but still refuses him the hand of his daughter.
Fontane's moral strength was not adequate to the task of finding a solution. This inadequacy is shared by the Mennonite. At the end Lehnert loses his life in the same manner as the man whom he has killed; then all is "quits. What caused Fontane to intertwine the Mennonites into this "machinery" of fate? Family recollections and other oral reports must be the source of Bernhardine Schulze-Smidt's acquaintance with the Mennonites; for her knowledge is on the one hand too definite to have been invented, and on the other too inexact to be the result of her own observation.
In both stories, Weltkind and Eiserne Zeit , the protagonist is a physician, so that an inner connection may be safely assumed. The problem, clearly presented, is Mennonitism versus the world or culture, and it cannot be said that the presentation is wrong. For such students really exist, who, having viewed a completely different world, have outgrown the tradition-bound and narrow circles of the paternal homestead, or even become estranged from it.
The author does not describe his physician-hero as an apostate, but shows that the Mennonite heritage can retain its effectiveness even under new circumstances. In the deeds of the selfless doctor, who at the same time understands human nature, the moral strength of Mennonitism lives on. Even though the historical basis for the motif of the repudiation in Eiserne Zeit may not be demonstrable, yet there is a great deal of truth in the way the repudiated one finds his church in the end, and may serve another dying man as a priest.
The period produced a series of literary works of the greatest variety. Spiess knows the history and the sources, and in a large measure he does justice to the earnestness of the Anabaptist concept of life. He has an Anabaptist exercise Christian love to his enemy, the monster Aichelin. To this extent Spiess considers Anabaptism a legitimate branch of the Reformation. But by having his Anabaptist gradually develop "a quiet attachment to Protestant doctrine," he makes the purely historical effect in this one Anabaptist a principle of negative judgment on Anabaptism in general and fails to recognize the independence of the Anabaptist type.
In Hungerjahr Heinrich Bechtolsheimer presents a graphic picture of the well-ordered Mennonite farm in the Palatinate or Hesse and of the people who operate a farm of this kind. As Baczko had done long ago, Bechtolsheimer shows how the Mennonite interprets brotherly love—as the act of assistance. Anabaptism and Menno Simons are also involved in this conflict.
Menno is presented as a congenial person. He, of course, stands somewhat aside; this is stylistically shown by not weaving him into the narrative in person, but by excerpts from his writings as if he were giving a historical report. This stylistic defect is at once also a defect in the inner critique. Thereby two points of view of the decline of Anabaptism in the Rhineland are stated. But there are still enough other differences remaining between the Reformed and the Anabaptist faith, precisely the decisive ones, which do not fit into this sort of explanation.
Ernst Marti, with his story of Swiss Anabaptists in the Emmental about , treats the inner structure of the two groups, those belonging to the state church and the Anabaptists. Not only the socially rooted church-consciousness of the peasant belonging to the large church, but also the brotherhood-consciousness, deriving from the opposition between the kingdom of God and the world of the Mennonite weaver, has its recognized strong points.
But they are "two worlds," which can never be united: It presents a modern caricature of Hans Denck. A supernatural libertinism is falsely ascribed to him, of which there is no trace in history. The entire terminology of Denck's language is a clumsy distortion of his deep thoughts into decadent sentimentality. It must be called a novel of propaganda even though some of the description is accurate. Out of the problematics of the concept of nonresistance Wahlberg evolves great future tasks for the Mennonites, which become the tasks in behalf of a new humanity.
In it "humanity is the mature fruit for which the Mennonites have been the seeds. The concept of nonresistance, which with the Anabaptists is obedience to the Scripture, is here harnessed to the secularized idea of pacifism after the model of Tolstoy: Taking up the idea of nonresistance and coupling it with the discipline of the ban , Lu Volbehr in Kathrin treats the spiritual problems of a soul on an unhistorical—and historically impossible—background the Mennonites had unceremoniously seized possession of some vacant lands!
It is at once ridiculous and dangerous, since, written during the war as it was, it might have caused the peculiarities of the Mennonites to create a cleft between them and society—if the sentimentality were not so obvious. It is a counterpart to Wildenbruch's Menonit, where the victim of Mennonite "doctrine" is the man; with Volbehr it is the woman.
After World War I, personal and therefore historical memoirs or sometimes narrative presentation on the basis of personal acquaintance are given in the following works: Sudermann, of Mennonite descent, offers a slightly ironically tinted description of the "sectarians from whom I stem," the religious services in the Elbing-Ellerwald Mennonite church, the somewhat narrow spirit, which, for instance, prohibited the wearing of "white blouses.
The congregation at Friedrichstadt furnishes the subject matter for the books of Elisabeth Bartels and Pont. In the one by Bartels the congregational life is restored by Pastor Neufeld. Impressions of the activities in the city, instruction from the pastor and the stern sisters, the joys of a trip to Hanerau, the estate acquired by the Mannhardt family through marriage with the van der Smissens are recounted. Ferdinand Pont goes back into the history of Friedrichstadt. He shows the hopelessness of the attempts to develop the city. The Mennonite spirit is an unintentional impediment; its oscillation between love of the world and rejection of the world prevents an energetic course of action.
Pont is a rationalist; consequently he does not grasp the seriousness of the problem of harmonizing Christianity and culture. Agnes Miegel mentions Mennonite character only casually, but correctly recognizes its solidity. Paul Fechter's strongly realistic style of description, like Sudermann's, portrays usually the accidental traits of character. His Elbing Mennonites are presented in their domesticity and in their jargon, to be sure; but on the whole they are not very clearly seen.
According to Kosel, Denck is the originator of all evil, a "phantast and inciter.
Literature, Mennonites in -- Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France (To 1950s)
The Zwingli memorial year, , brought forth several novels about Zwingli. The poet's intention to make Zwingli prominent prevents the artistic utilization of the results of modern research on Anabaptism; the ancient picture of the Anabaptists is instead restored. The Anabaptists are pictured only in their confused extremes; in Grebel's eyes the fire of fanaticism also glows.
The work is based, like Emanuel Stickelberger's Zwingli , on the ancient polemic sources. Stickelberger goes into greater detail, but nevertheless makes Anabaptism into an affair of the beer table and the street rather than an evangelical movement. Stickelberger gives no clue as to the means by which such a planless movement could have had the strength to form a brotherhood and to create an exemplary manner of life.
Huna takes the reader into the midst of the ferment in Reformation times, into the process of the rise of the creeds. The theme is toleration.
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Its champions are the Anabaptists and Philip, who is under their influence. The Anabaptist movement is viewed in its historical results. Denck's line of thought is on the whole repeated correctly; the readiness of the Anabaptists to sacrifice is nicely portrayed. But the book has a flaw; Huna completely overlooks the fundamentally Biblicistic character of Anabaptism. Instead he makes Denck the decisive figure. There is propaganda in this evaluation.
It is clearly expressed in Philip's becoming the forerunner of the concept of a free and democratic state, for so Huna interprets Denck and places him as a statesman into his world. The toleration of these Anabaptists with their freedom of religion and conscience is only a stage on the road of the progressive evolution of the birth of the "real" person, until finally "spirit and faith are mightier than the will of the prince.
The state finally enters into the inheritance of the church, as the "amen" at the end of Philip's address is spoken not by the theologians but by the secular chancellor. A very different spirit permeates Wilhelmus von Nassauen ? It is of the people. The Netherlands with inexpressible sacrifice are in the throes of their struggle with Spain. In the enormous sea of blood that flowed there, the fate of the Anabaptists is only a droplet.