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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 Dear Purchase
A Theme in German Modernism
Av J. P. Stern
Häftad, 2006
860 kr
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This book studies individual works by twelve major writers of German modernism, including Thomas Mann, Musil, Brecht and Rilke, in relation to the history of the twentieth century. It explores the theme of the 'dear purchase', an ideal of moral strenuousness and sacrifice seen as characteristic of …
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 …
Christa Wolf's Utopian Vision
From Marxism to Feminism
Av Anna K. Kuhn
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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This is a book-length chronological study in English of Christa Wolf's works. It traces the development and continuity of the writer's major themes and concerns against the backdrop of her constantly evolving relationship to Marxism, and documents the rise of her feminist consciousness. It does …
Women Writers and National Identity
Bachmann, Duden, Özdamar
Häftad, 2009
635 kr
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In Women Writers and National Identity, Stephanie Bird offers a detailed analysis of the twin themes of female identity and national identity in the works of three major twentieth-century German-language women writers. Bird argues for the importance of an understanding of ambiguity, tension and …
Robert Musil's 'The Man Without Qualities'
A Critical Study
Av Philip Payne
Häftad, 2009
710 kr
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Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities is perhaps the most important novel in German written in the twentieth century - certainly it is among the most brilliant, puzzling and profound. This, the first comprehensive study of the work to appear in English, guides the reader towards Musil's central …
Frankenstein's Island
England and the English in the Writings of Heinrich Heine
Av S. S. Prawer
Häftad, 2009
767 kr
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Professor Prawer's new book documents Heinrich Heine's lifelong involvement with England and the English. It shows him to have been a witty and intelligent observer of English men and women, institutions and politics, and books and journals of his own day; and to have extended his observation …
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
The Theaters of Consciousness
Häftad, 2009
767 kr
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This book focuses on Hugo von Hofmannsthal's intense, lifelong concentration upon a single cohesive set of poetic, philosophical and ethical concerns, a quality of his work which has been neglected in the bulk of existing scholarship. Professor Bennett examines Hofmannsthal's work in the context of …
The German Tradition of Psychology in Literature and Thought, 1700-1840
Av Matthew Bell
Häftad, 2009
767 kr
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The beginnings of psychology are usually dated from experimental psychology and Freudian psychoanalysis in the late-nineteenth century. Yet the period from 1700 to 1840 produced some highly sophisticated psychological theorising that became central to German intellectual and cultural life, well in …
Reading Heinrich Heine
Häftad, 2010
804 kr
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This book is a comprehensive study of the nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine. Anthony Phelan examines the complete range of Heine's work, from the early poetry and 'Pictures of Travel' to the last poems, including personal polemic and journalism. Phelan provides original and detailed …
The German Bildungsroman
Incest and Inheritance
Häftad, 2011
654 kr
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This book was originally published in 1997. The Bildungsroman - the story of the development or formation of a young man - is the most famous German contribution to the European novel. Most studies of the Bildungsroman have concentrated on its underlying philosophy; Michael Minden addresses it as …
Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile
Häftad, 2010
692 kr
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Bertolt Brecht, one of the most influential European playwrights of the twentieth century, was also a poet of distinction. Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile is the first comprehensive study devoted to his most important collection of political poetry, the Svendborg Poems. In these essays, a strong …
Philosophy and German Literature, 1700-1990
Häftad, 2010
654 kr
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Although the importance of the interplay of literature and philosophy in Germany has often been examined within individual works or groups of works by particular authors, little research has been undertaken into the broader dialogue of German literature and philosophy as a whole. Philosophy and …
Contemporary German Fiction
Writing in the Berlin Republic
Häftad, 2011
654 kr
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The profound political and social changes Germany has undergone since 1989 have been reflected in an extraordinarily rich range of contemporary writing. Contemporary German Fiction focuses on the debates that have shaped the politics and culture of the new Germany that has emerged from the second …
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 …
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 …
Stefan Heym
The Perpetual Dissident
Inbunden, 1992
2135 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 - …
The Dear Purchase
A Theme in German Modernism
Av J. P. Stern
Inbunden, 1995
1704 kr
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This book studies individual works by twelve major writers of German modernism, including Thomas Mann, Musil, Brecht and Rilke, in relation to the history of the twentieth century. It explores the theme of the 'dear purchase', an ideal of moral strenuousness and sacrifice seen as characteristic of …
The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist
Ideals and Illusions
Inbunden, 1996
1704 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
The German Bildungsroman
Incest and Inheritance
Inbunden, 1997
1778 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book was originally published in 1997. The Bildungsroman - the story of the development or formation of a young man - is the most famous German contribution to the European novel. Most studies of the Bildungsroman have concentrated on its underlying philosophy; Michael Minden addresses it as …
Murderesses in German Writing, 1720-1860
Heroines of Horror
Av Susanne Kord
Inbunden, 2009
1872 kr
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The way deviant women - murderesses, witches, vampires - are perceived and represented reveals much about what a society considers the norm for acceptable female behaviour. Drawing on extensive archival records and published texts, Susanne Kord investigates the stories of eight famous murderesses …
Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771-1871
Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland
Av Todd Kontje
Inbunden, 1998
1985 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 …
Philosophy and German Literature, 1700-1990
Inbunden, 2002
1778 kr
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Although the importance of the interplay of literature and philosophy in Germany has often been examined within individual works or groups of works by particular authors, little research has been undertaken into the broader dialogue of German literature and philosophy as a whole. Philosophy and …
