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German Romantic Literary Theory
Av Ernst Behler, H. B. Nisbet m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
1010 kr
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The emergence of a new theory of literature in the German Romantic period constituted a decisive turning point in the history of criticism. Prepared by new trends in critical thought during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a view of the literary work and the artistic process developed …
Theatre in Vienna
A Critical History, 1776-1995
Av W. E. Yates, H. B. Nisbet m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
1010 kr
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This is the first general history in English of theatre in Vienna, the one German-speaking city which, in the eighteenth century and for most of the nineteenth, sustained a theatrical life comparable to that of Paris or London. The book covers this theatrical culture from the beginnings of modern …
Freud's Literary Culture
Av Graham Frankland, H. B. Nisbet
Häftad, 2006
729 kr
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This original study investigates the role played by literature in Sigmund Freud's creation and development of psychoanalysis. Graham Frankland analyses the whole range of Freud's own texts from a literary-critical perspective, providing a comprehensive reappraisal of his life's work. Freud was …
The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist
Ideals and Illusions
Av Seán Allan, H. B. Nisbet
Häftad, 2006
692 kr
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This is an accessible 1996 study of the plays of Kleist (1777-1811), who ranks with Goethe and Schiller amongst nineteenth-century authors and who has been a major influence on contemporary German writers. Seán Allan examines Kleist's critique of the aspirations of both Enlightenment and Romantic …
Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition
Häftad, 2006
879 kr
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If the rise of modernism is the story of a struggle between the burden of tradition and a desire to break free of it, then Rilke's poetic development is a key example of this tension at work. Taking a sceptical view of Rilke's own myth of himself as a solitary genius, Judith Ryan reveals how deeply …
Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771-1871
Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland
Häftad, 2006
692 kr
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In this 1998 book, Todd Kontje surveys novels by German women over the one-hundred-year period that stretches from the beginnings of a German national literature to the founding of its nation-state. Introducing readers to the lives and works of fourteen women writers of the period, he shows the …
Stefan Heym
The Perpetual Dissident
Av Peter Hutchinson, H. B. Nisbet
Häftad, 2006
677 kr
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Stefan Heym's uncompromising stance made him unpopular with a succession of political regimes. The Nazis, the CIA and the East German secret police all held files on him. He was Hitler's youngest literary exile; McCarthyism was to drive him from the USA; and even in what appeared his natural home - …
Literature and German Reunification
Av Stephen Brockmann, H. B. Nisbet m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
767 kr
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This book is a systematic attempt to examine the literary consequences of German reunification. Placing the concept of the Kulturnation at the centre of its analysis, the book explores the ways in which literature both responds to and helps to constitute notions of German national identity. …
Friedrich Schiller
Drama, Thought and Politics
Av Lesley Sharpe, H. B. Nisbet m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
767 kr
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In this important study, Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist, poet and thinker, and provides detailed discussions of all his major works, including his essays on aesthetics. His works are viewed against the social, political and literary background of the late eighteenth …
German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism: Winckelmann, Lessing, Hamann, Herder, Schiller and Goethe
Häftad, 1985
823 kr
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This anthology, part of a three-volume series devoted to German aesthetic and literary criticism from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, charts the development of aesthetic and literary theory in Germany in the latter half of the eighteenth century and its emancipation from the hitherto …
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, The Eighteenth Century
Av H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson
Inbunden, 1997
3072 kr
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This is a comprehensive 1997 account of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800. Unlike previous histories, it is not just a chronological survey of critical writing, but a multidisciplinary investigation of how the understanding of literature and its various …
Friedrich Schiller
Drama, Thought and Politics
Av Lesley Sharpe, H. B. Nisbet
Inbunden, 1991
2247 kr
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In this important study, Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist, poet and thinker, and provides detailed discussions of all his major works, including his essays on aesthetics. His works are viewed against the social, political and literary background of the late eighteenth …
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, The Eighteenth Century
Av H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson
Häftad, 2005
1066 kr
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This is a comprehensive 1997 account of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800. Unlike previous histories, it is not just a chronological survey of critical writing, but a multidisciplinary investigation of how the understanding of literature and its various …
German Romantic Literary Theory
Inbunden, 1993
2397 kr
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The emergence of a new theory of literature in the German Romantic period constituted a decisive turning point in the history of criticism. Prepared by new trends in critical thought during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a view of the literary work and the artistic process developed …
Hegel: Political Writings
Av Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel, Lawrence Dickey m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
448 kr
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This major addition to the series of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought seeks to give students with no specialist knowledge access to both the practical and the metaphysical aspects of Hegel's political thought. The ethical and metaphysical texts in this collection both illuminate …
Lessing: Philosophical and Theological Writings
Av Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, H. B. Nisbet m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
601 kr
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81), thinker, dramatist and controversialist of many-sided interests, is the most representative figure of the German Enlightenment. His defence of Spinoza, who had traditionally been condemned as an atheist, provoked a major controversy in philosophy, and his …
Literature and German Reunification
Av Stephen Brockmann, H. B. Nisbet
Inbunden, 1999
1704 kr
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This book is a systematic attempt to examine the literary consequences of German reunification. Placing the concept of the Kulturnation at the centre of its analysis, the book explores the ways in which literature both responds to and helps to constitute notions of German national identity. …
Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition
Av Judith Ryan, H. B. Nisbet m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
2116 kr
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If the rise of modernism is the story of a struggle between the burden of tradition and a desire to break free of it, then Rilke's poetic development is a key example of this tension at work. Taking a sceptical view of Rilke's own myth of himself as a solitary genius, Judith Ryan reveals how deeply …
Freud's Literary Culture
Av Graham Frankland, H. B. Nisbet m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1778 kr
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This original study investigates the role played by literature in Sigmund Freud's creation and development of psychoanalysis. Graham Frankland analyses the whole range of Freud's own texts from a literary-critical perspective, providing a comprehensive reappraisal of his life's work. Freud was …
Lessing: Philosophical and Theological Writings
Av Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, H. B. Nisbet
Inbunden, 2005
1302 kr
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81), thinker, dramatist and controversialist of many-sided interests, is the most representative figure of the German Enlightenment. His defence of Spinoza, who had traditionally been condemned as an atheist, provoked a major controversy in philosophy, and his …
