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17 produkter
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 …
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 …
Adalbert Stifter: A Critical Study
Av Martin Swales, Erika Swales
Häftad, 2010
654 kr
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Although Adalbert Stifter (1808-68) has long been recognised as a key figure in nineteenth-century German prose writing, his literary reputation has been curiously volatile. This major study, first published in 1984, was a reassessment of Stifter's work within the context of the tradition of …
Realism in European Literature
Essays in Honour of J. P. Stern
Av Nicholas Boyle, Martin Swales
Häftad, 2010
654 kr
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The essays in this collection, which was originally published in 1986, address fundamental issues of literary realism that have long been given prominence by J. P. Stern, the distinguished writer on German literature and author of the seminal study On Realism. In the prevailing theoretical climate …
German Poetry
An Anthology from Klopstock to Enzensberger
Häftad, 1987
823 kr
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This anthology of German poetry prints a representative section from the work of seventeen poets writing from the mid eighteenth century to the present. There are poems by Klopstock, Goethe, Schiller, Hölderlin, Novalis, Brentano, Eichendorff, Heine, Droste-Hülshoff, Mörike, Hofmannsthal, Rilke, …
Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Häftad, 1987
654 kr
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The tradition of the German novel, before the emergence of its 'classic' writers in the first half of the twentieth century (Thomas Mann, Kafka, Hesse, Musil), does not have an assured place in the canon of European literature. Not that it has wanted for spirited advocates; but, despite all …
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 …
German Novelle
E-bok, 2019
738 kr
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Martin Swales explores the interrelation in the novelle of aesthetic theory and textual practice, suggesting that the characteristic mode of the novelle is a specific kind of narrative constellation advocated by theoreticians and practiced by writers. The author’s theory not only serves to …
German Bildungsroman from Wieland to Hesse
Häftad, 2015
411 kr
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Although some of the most distinguished German novels written since about 1770 are generally considered to be Bildungsromane, the term Bildungsroman is all too frequently used in English without an awareness of the tradition from which it arose. Professor Swales concentrates on the roles of plot, …
German Novelle
Häftad, 2019
529 kr
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Martin Swales explores the interrelation in the novelle of aesthetic theory and textual practice, suggesting that the characteristic mode of the novelle is a specific kind of narrative constellation advocated by theoreticians and practiced by writers. The author’s theory not only serves to …
German Bildungsroman from Wieland to Hesse
Inbunden, 2016
1700 kr
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Although some of the most distinguished German novels written since about 1770 are generally considered to be Bildungsromane, the term Bildungsroman is all too frequently used in English without an awareness of the tradition from which it arose. Professor Swales concentrates on the roles of plot, …
German Novelle
Inbunden, 2019
1187 kr
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Martin Swales explores the interrelation in the novelle of aesthetic theory and textual practice, suggesting that the characteristic mode of the novelle is a specific kind of narrative constellation advocated by theoreticians and practiced by writers. The author’s theory not only serves to …
German Bildungsroman from Wieland to Hesse
E-bok, 2015
556 kr
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Although some of the most distinguished German novels written since about 1770 are generally considered to be Bildungsromane, the term Bildungsroman is all too frequently used in English without an awareness of the tradition from which it arose. Professor Swales concentrates on the roles of plot, …
Reading Goethe
A Critical Introduction to the Literary Work
Av Martin Swales, Erika Swales
Häftad, 2007
344 kr
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At last an engaging and highly readable guide to the works and significance of Goethe.The year 1999 saw the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's greatest writer. Appropriately, literary scholars within Germany and beyond paid tribute to this remarkable talent. But …
