Anglica Germanica Series 2 – serie
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Theodor Fontane: The Major Novels
Av Alan Bance
Häftad, 2010
654 kr
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This 1982 book examines the novels of Theodor Fontane, one of the most important German novelists of the nineteenth century. He has been well served by English translations and is now regarded as a writer of international standing. Professor Bance begins by setting Fontane's work in the context of …
The Art of Narration in Wolfram's Parzival and Albrecht's Jüngerer Titurel
Häftad, 2011
622 kr
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This 1981 text is a study of the narrative techniques in two important thirteenth-century German romances: one by Wolfram von Eschenbach, considered by many as the greatest poet of medieval Germany; the other by a lesser-known but highly skilled follower of Wolfram. This analysis of narrative …
Lessing's Laocoon
Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason
Häftad, 2009
695 kr
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This study analyses the emergence of aesthetic theory in eighteenth-century Germany in relation to contemporary theories of the nature of language and signs. As well as being extremely relevant to the discussion of literary theory, this perspective casts much light on Enlightenment aesthetics. The …
Hebbel's Prose Tragedies
An Investigation of the Aesthetic Aspect of Hebbel's Dramatic Language
Av Mary Garland
Häftad, 2011
617 kr
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A study of the nineteenth-century German writer Friedrich Hebbel, concentrating on his tragedies in prose, and examining in particular the way in which the language is used to convey Hebbel's beliefs, attitudes and intellectual preoccupations and also the dramatic effects. The three tragedies …
Arno Schmidt: A Critical Study of his Prose
Av M. R. Minden
Häftad, 2012
640 kr
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This book, originally published in 1982, was the first monograph in English to offer a critical study of an important twentieth-century German novelist, Arno Schmidt. Schmidt, who died in 1979, was a controversial figure on the German literary scene. His early work, which began appearing …
The Younger Goethe and the Visual Arts
Häftad, 2012
654 kr
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This 1981 book is concerned with the part which the visual arts played in Goethe's life and thought from his earliest years to the end of his visit to Italy. Among his multifarious preoccupations this interest in the visual arts was one of the most urgent and consistent. The extent of his …
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 …
Rennewart in Wolfram's 'Willehalm'
A Study of Wolfram von Eschenbach and his Sources
Av Carl Lofmark
Häftad, 2011
622 kr
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Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm and the Old French chanson de geste, La Bataille d'Aliscans, on which it was based, recount the tale of how Guillaume de'Orange eventually defeated the Saracens at the battle of Aliscans. This 1972 book examines Wolfram's use of his source material, concentrating …
Friderich von H-sen: Introduction, Text, Commentary and Glossary
Av D. G. Mowatt
Häftad, 2010
598 kr
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Friderich von H-sen, twelfth-century Minnesinger, was a knight from Kreuznach in Rhine Franconia. He was in the entourage of the Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa, and died on a crusade to the Holy Land on 6th May 1190. His surviving poetry, consisting of a corpus of love poems and a group of crusading …
Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Gedichte An Die Nacht'
An Essay in Interpretation
Häftad, 2010
640 kr
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The Gedichte an die Nacht is a collection of 22 poems composed between January 1913 and February 1914, which Rilke copied into a manuscript book for his friend Rudolf Kassner in about 1916. The importance of the poems as a collection lies in the fact that they were written during the period of …
Salomon Gessner: His Creative Achievement and Influence
Av John Hibberd
Häftad, 2011
654 kr
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At a time when German was generally despised as a barbaric tongue, Salomon Gessner was hailed in Europe as a poet of universal significance. Yet today he is scarcely known. John Hibberd sets the writer in context, traces the story of his impact, and stresses his significance as a key to the taste …
Kudrun: A Critical Appreciation
Häftad, 2012
586 kr
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Kudrun is a German epic poem extant in only one manuscript, the Ambraser Handschrift of the early sixteenth century. It is thought, however, to have been composed within the decade 1230-40, and is thus contemporaneous with other epics of the classical age of Middle High German literature, such as …
Essays on Medieval German and Other Poetry
Av A. T. Hatto
Häftad, 2011
767 kr
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The essays reprinted in this 1980 book were first published at various times between 1951 and 1972. They deal largely with medieval German heroic and epic poetry, emphasising the way the basic language and imagery of that literature were rooted in a deep understanding and appreciation of the …
Essays on Medieval German Literature and Iconography
Häftad, 2012
640 kr
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In making this selection of twelve essays spanning the period 1953-77 for this 1980 volume, Professor Pickering bore in mind that many of his recent readers are not students of German, but of comparative literature, art, history or theology, and translated three of the twelve for the occasion. He …
Else Lasker-Schüler
The Broken World
Av Hans W. Cohn
Häftad, 2011
654 kr
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Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945) was a German-Jewish poet who died in exile in Jerusalem. This 1974 book was the first full-length treatment of her poetry in English. The aim of the author, a practising psychologist at the time of this book's original publication, in this study of the poet's life, …
Kafka's Narrators
A Study of His Stories and Sketches
Av Roy Pascal
Häftad, 1982
654 kr
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When Roy Pascal died in 1980 he had all but completed a book on narrative viewpoint in Kafka's shorter fiction: the stories and sketches, as well as the numerous fables and parables. It was for Pascal a genuine voyage of discovery from which he believed he was bringing back significant observations …
The Drama of Revolt
A Critical Study of Georg Büchner
Häftad, 1979
1010 kr
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Georg Büchner is one of the most important dramatists of the nineteenth century, both intrinsically and on account of his enormous influence on the drama of our own time. Professor Benn attempts a comprehensive study of the art and thought of this distinguished writer, emphasising throughout that …
Narration in the German Novelle
Theory and Interpretation
Häftad, 1979
654 kr
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The Novelle is a characteristic German literary form, easier to recognize than to define, except as a brief novel or a long short story. The main body of this book is devoted to interpretative essays on individual Novellen. In a sense they all illustrate one central problem: the relationship of the …
