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Exile
The Writer's Experience
Av John M. Spalek, Robert F. Bell
Häftad, 2020
380 kr
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This work is a collection of twenty-four fundamental essays on the many-sided topic of German exile literature during and after Hitler's Third Reich. Exile literature, which emerged in the 1980s as a special field of critical investigation within German Studies, embraced the diverse works of …
Intervention of Philology
Gender, Learning, and Power in Lohenstein's Roman Plays
Häftad, 2020
332 kr
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This book examines the interplay of history, textuality, dramaturgy, and politics in the school dramas of Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635-1683). The plays are based on well-known episodes from classical Roman history and were staged in Breslau by students at two all-male humanistic gymnasia. …
Ego-Alter Ego
Double and/as Other in the Age of German Poetic Realism
Av John Pizer
Häftad, 2020
299 kr
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German Poetic Realists drew on the Romantic motif of the Double in a manner consistent with the central dictum of Poetic Realism as articulated by its chief theorists, Julian Schmidt and Otto Ludwig. Schmidt and Ludwig argued that contemporary authors should, above all, strive for psychological and …
Essence of Philosophy
Häftad, 2020
246 kr
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Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), the great German humanist, remained a towering figure in Europe long into the twentieth century. Published in 1954, this translation by Stephen A. Emery and William T. Emery was the first English translation of Dilthey's Das Wesen der Philosophie (1907) as well as his …
Goethe's Social Philosophy
As Revealed in "Campagne in Frankreich" and "Belagerung Von Mainz
Häftad, 2020
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In this study originally published in 1955, Steer explores the importance of Goethe's family concept in two autobiographical works, Campagne in Frankreich and Belagerung von Mainz. Through a close textual analysis, Steer argues that at the center of both pieces is Goethe's conception of the family …
Three Chapters on Courtly Love in Arthurian France and Germany
Lancelot--Andreas Capellanus--Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Parzival
Häftad, 2020
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By analyzing Chretien's Cliges, Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, Chretien's Chevalier de la Charette, and the Old French Prose Lancelot, as well as Andreas Capellanus' De Amore and Eschenbach's Parzival, Weigand presents a picture of the ideals of courtly love in Europe in the latter half of the …
Wittenwiler's Ring and the Anonymous Scots Poem Colkelbie Sow
Two Comic-Didactic Works from the Fifteenth Century
Häftad, 2020
332 kr
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Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring, written in a Swiss dialect and presented in English translation for the first time in this 1956 volume, is a comic-didactic and religious allegory that documents late medieval views on many aspects of literature, history, law and religion. Besides his translation of …
Figure of the Musician in German Literature
Häftad, 2020
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This survey of the literary treatment of musicians in German novels and novellas begins with the Romantics and ends with the publication of Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus. Schoolfield explores the work of a large selection of writers, including Hoffmann, Tieck, Kleist, Brentano, Grillparzer, Werfel …
Hermann Hesse and His Critics
The Criticism and Bibliography of Half a Century
Häftad, 2020
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Originally published in celebration of Hermann Hesse's 80th birthday, this highly documented study, practical handbook, and reference work for Hesse scholarship is presented in three parts. Mileck gives a short biography of Hesse's life and a general characterization of his writing, followed by a …
Death and the Plowman or, the Bohemian Plowman
A Disputatious and Consolatory Dialogue About Death from the Year 1400
Häftad, 2020
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This dialogue about death from the year 1400 has no peer in early German Renaissance literature. Ernest Kirrmann presents an English translation of the German classic, as well as a preface by Alois Bernt giving an introduction to the context and significance of the work. The text is accompanied by …
Middle Ages-Reformation-Volkskunde
Festschrift for John G. Kunstmann
Häftad, 2020
332 kr
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Twenty essays on medieval history, literature and language published in honor of John G. Kunstmann and his work on German literature in the Middle Ages. The contributors are Berthold Ullman, Urban Tigner Holmes, Edwin Zeydel, George Fenwick Jones, Wayland Hand, Robert Linker, John Keller, Carl …
German Lyric of the Baroque in English Translation
Häftad, 2020
348 kr
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Here are verse translations, with original texts on facing pages, of representative lyrics by ninety-nine poets of the German Baroque. At its original publication, this volume by Schoolfield presented many of the poets to an English-speaking audience for the first time. An extensive introduction …
Broken Pitcher
A Comedy in One Act
Häftad, 2020
283 kr
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An imperishable gem of German literature, Kleist's The Broken Pitcher is pure comedy. The author's handling of the theme--the judge as culprit--shows supreme mastery. This translation by Bayard Q. Morgan, originally published in 1961, is faithful in form.
Schelmuffsky
Häftad, 2020
299 kr
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Rendered into English for the first time by Wayne Wonderley and provided with a critical introduction, this rollicking tale of baroque satire by Christian Reuter not only illuminates the mores and mentality of the time but forms a noteworthy link in the development of the European novel.
Nibelungenlied Today
Its Substance, Essence, and Significance
Häftad, 2020
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This thorough study of the moral values of the Nibelungen and of their paradoxical behavior posits the work as an indictment of a society that results time and again in collective human tragedy. Told with tragic insight, yet sympathetically, the epic may well be described as the story of man, the …
Kleist in France
Häftad, 2020
332 kr
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From Madame de Stael, Dumas, and Taine, to Giraudoux, Adamov, Ionesco, and the existentialists, this study provides a fascinating account of the progress of Kleist's reception in France from complete rejection in 1807 to spectacular critical and public acclaim in the 1950s. Richardson argues that …
King Rother
Häftad, 2020
299 kr
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Originally published in 1962, Robert Lichtenstein's translation of King Rother made the medieval epic available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. His translation in rhymed couplets seeks to convey the humorous spirit of the original and an introduction places the poem in its …
Ballad of the Buried Life
Häftad, 2020
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A news item concerning six German soldiers trapped for years in the army food storage bunker provided Rudolf Hagelstange with a plot and an effective symbol to express the tensions, emotions, and paradoxes of modern man's being. In this volume the poet Herman Salinger translates Hagelstange's poem …
Young Nietzsche and the Wagnerian Experience
Häftad, 2020
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Using previously unpublished and neglected sources, this 1963 study of the critical decade in the philosopher's development that culminated in The Birth of Tragedy in 1871 fully exploited for the first time the extensive record of Nietzsche's musical compositions and clarifies his traditionally …
Between Real and Ideal
The Course of Otto Ludwig's Development As a Narrative Writer
Häftad, 2020
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Otto Ludwig, nineteenth-century German novelist and critic, originated the term poetic realism. In this excellent study, Ludwig's prose is sympathetically and thoroughly examined and a clear account of the evolution of German fiction after Romanticism is presented. Taking Ludwig's narrative works …
Studies in Arthur Schnitzler
Centennial Commemorative Volume
Av Herbert W. Reichert, Herman Salinger
Häftad, 2020
299 kr
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This valuable collection of eight original and penetrating essays by American scholars honors the centenary of the Austrian dramatist's birth. The contributors are Kurt Bergel, Joseph Dayag, Lore Foltin, Robert Kann, Richard Lawson, Walter Perl, Herbert Reichert, and Robert Donald Spector and they …
German Verse from the 12th to the 20th Century in English Translation
Av J. W. Thomas
Häftad, 2020
299 kr
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This anthology presents in English verse translation a selection of the best of German poetry, together with discussions of the chief authors and literary periods and brief explications of the individual poems. Taking the reader from the Minnesingers' songs of courtly love to Goethe and Rilke, this …
Theodor Storm's Novellen
Essays on Literary Technique
Häftad, 2020
299 kr
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These six essays elucidate some of the more significant aspects of Storm's literary technique. The treatments of some of Storm's Novellen, including Am Kamin, Aquis Submersus and two versions of Immensee, show how Storm used structure, symbolism, elements of tragedy and other narrative devices in …
Whitman and Nietzsche
A Comparative Study of Their Thought
Häftad, 2020
332 kr
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This volume will be a great aid to students and scholars alike in American literature, American thought, the history of ideas, and comparative literature. Stavrou draws from the entire bodies of work by Whitman and Nietzsche to explore the parallels in the authors' conceptions of paradox, the …
Letters to and from Ludwig Tieck and His Circle
Unpublished Letters from the Period of German Romanticism Including the Unpublished Correspondence of Sophie and Ludwig Tieck
Av Percy Matenko, Edwin H. Zeydel m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
351 kr
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This monumental collection of 165 letters was acquired or reproduced in Europe before World War II. Fully edited, the letters between Tieck and his associates as well as between Ludwig and Sophie Tieck are an indispensable source of information on the author himself and the intellectual milieu of …
Novalis
German Poet--European Thinker--Christian Mystic
Häftad, 2020
276 kr
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Originally published in 1954, Hiebel's Novalis was the first critical evaluation in English of the life and works of Novalis (1772-1801), the German Romantic poet of the Blue Flower, since Thomas Carlyle's essay in 1829.This book presents not only a fully rounded picture of the man, the philosopher …
Gregorius
A Medieval Oedipus Legend
Häftad, 2020
299 kr
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Originally published in 1955, this rendering in rhyming couplets was the first English translation to appear of the medieval Oedipus legend of Gregorius, made known to readers by Thomas Mann in his novel The Holy Sinner (1951). The introduction situates Hartmann's poem in the pantheon of Gregorius …
Drama of German Expressionism
A German-English Bibliography
Av Claude Hill, Ralph Ley
Häftad, 2020
332 kr
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Originally published in 1960, this bibliography with more than five thousand items provided an indispensable tool for those interested in the German expressionist plays. The volume contains a general bibliography on German expressionistic drama and as well as sixteen leading German playwrights: …
Hermit in German Literature
(from Lessing to Eichendorff)
Häftad, 2020
299 kr
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In this thorough study of the figure of the hermit in the works of German writers Fitzell analyzes characters in works by Lessing, Goethe, Klinger, Hoffmann, Wieland, Eichendorff and others. The author argues that the figure of the hermit characterizes the quality of inwardness and withdrawal from …
Music of the Minnesinger and Early Meistersinger
A Bibliography
Häftad, 2020
283 kr
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Originally published in 1962, this complete bibliography of the music of the Minnesinger provided an essential tool for scholars of medieval German literature. The songs are listed in alphabetical order by composer along with information on the manuscript and folio, ascription, and publication. A …
