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  • - Double and/as Other in the Age of German Poetic Realism
    af John Pizer
    298,95 kr.

    While Romantic Doppelganger are often preternatural figures, the Poetic Realists configure egos and their narrative Others to portray characters in their psychological comprehensiveness. John Pizer offers an overview of the Romantic Double motif and its connections to the theory of Poetic Realism.

  • - A Comparative Study of Franz Kafka's Der Prozess and Albert Camus' L'Etranger
    af Phillip H. Rhein
    298,95 kr.

    Offers a penetrative and perceptive comparison of two of the most discussed novels of the twentieth century. Beginning with Camus' own appraisal of Kafka's work, the study convincingly analyses the authors' fictive creations.

  • - Studies in the Character and Meaning of his Writings
    af John M. Ellis
    328,95 kr.

    Ellis's book confronts directly the most central issue of Kleist criticism: the essential nature and meaning of his work. Rather than provide a general survey of Kleist's writings, Ellis performs an analysis of six of his most mature works, drawing some general conclusions about the uniquely Kleistian character of the works covered.

  • - A Tragedy in Five Acts by Friedrich Hebbel
    af Paul H. Curts
    283,95 kr.

    Originally published in 1950, this volume contains a vivid English verse translation by Paul H. Curts of one of the most profound and moving tragedies of German literature.

  • af Charlotte Craig
    298,95 kr.

    In this study the extent to which Wieland contributed to the literary genre of the travesty is established, the poet's approach to his sources as well as the nature and duality of his innovations are investigated, and the level and distribution of his travesties in relationship to the sum total of his literary work in general is appraised.

  • - Seven Essays
    af Alan P. Cottrell
    298,95 kr.

    These essays range from close textual analysis to discussions of larger problems such as Goethe's relation to Christianity as illuminated by the theme of sacrifice in Faust. This work is viewed with particular reference to Goethe's natural scientific epistemology and to the problems confronting Western man in our own times.

  • af Frederic E. Coenen
    298,95 kr.

    Challenges scholarship which characterizes the work of Austrian dramatist Franz Grillparzer as eminently personal and the perception of his male characters as lacking in masculinity. Coenen argues that the diversity represented by Grillparzer's male characters paints a more complete and nuanced vision of the human soul than previously recognised.

  • - Die Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten and Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre
    af Jane K. Brown
    298,95 kr.

    The novelty of this study lies in its techniques for understanding the deliberate narrative contradictions and elusive parody in Goethe's work. Interpretation of the entire Unterhaltungen, including the Marchen, establishes Goethe's principles of cyclical composition.

  • af Rainer Maria Rilke
    298,95 kr.

    A poetic English rendering of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duineser Elegien printed together with the original German on facing pages. The translation places high value on conveying the meaning of the Elegies, although it does not attempt to retain the original meter.

  • - Inquiries Into His Poetry
    af Hugo Bekker
    298,95 kr.

    Casts new light on Hausen's lyrics by often favouring the manuscript readings. In the readings, irony emerges as a leading poetic device, as does the element of Spiel. Questions arise regarding such concepts as Gottesdienst, Frauendienst, and hohe Minne.

  • - Editions and Criticism in German, French, and English, 1879-1965
    af Richard H. Allen
    298,95 kr.

    Originally published in 1967, Richard Allen's volume with a foreword by Robert Weiss was the first comprehensive bibliography of Arthur Schnitzler's writings, including his literary works, philosophical reflections, essays, correspondence, and medical writings, together with general criticism and dissertations on the author.

  • - Aesthetic and Intellectual-Historical Interpretations
    af Mark William Roche
    298,95 kr.

    Consists of close readings of four poems illustrating Gottfried Benn's developing conception of stillness or stasis: Trunkene Flut (1927), Wer allein ist-- (1936), Statische Gedichte (1944), and Reisen (1950). Mark Roche pays particular attention to the interrelation of form and content.

  • - Charles Sealsfield, Friedrich GerstAcker, Karl May, and Other German Novelists of America
    af Jeffrey L. Sammons
    353,95 kr.

    A study of German fiction about America in the nineteenth century that concentrates on three writers: Charles Sealsfield, an escaped Moravian monk who came to New Orleans in 1823; Friedrich Gerstacker, who produced a large body of fiction, travel reportage, and emigration advice; and Karl May, who wrote adventure stories set in an imaginary West.

  • af Gisela N. Berns
    298,95 kr.

    An exploration of the poetic function of Greek archetypes in Schiller's Wallenstein, this study claims Homer's Iliad and Euripides's Iphigenia in Aulis, the first epic and the last tragic poem about the Trojan War in the Greek tradition, as archetypal sources for Schiller's modern historical drama about the Thirty Years War.

  • - Foreign Worker German in the Federal Republic of Germany
    af Barbara A. Fennell
    298,95 kr.

    Examines the way in which the identity of foreign workers and foreign writers in Germany is negotiated on the basis of language use and literary activity. The book looks at the history of immigration to Germany since the turn of the century and a description of the social situation of foreigners living there at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

  • af J. W. Thomas
    283,95 kr.

    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 Rilke, this volume gives an excellent introduction to eight centuries of German poetry.

  • - The "Jewish Question" From Lessing to the Napoleonic Wars (gls, No. 117
    af Peter R. Erspamer
    323,95 kr.

    Explores the "Jewish question" in German literature from Lessing's Nathan der Weise in 1779 to Sessa's Unser Verkehr in 1815. Peter Erspamer analyses the transition from an enlightened emancipatory literature advocating tolerance in the late eighteenth century to an anti-Semitic literature with nationalistic overtones in the early nineteenth century.

  • - German Poet--European Thinker--Christian Mystic
    af Frederick Hiebel
    298,95 kr.

    Originally published in 1954, Hiebel's Novalis is a critical evaluation of the life and works of Novalis, the German Romantic poet. This book presents a fully rounded picture of the man, the philosopher and scientist, the writer, the mystic, and a commentary on one of the most influential and fruitful periods in German intellectual life.

  • - Unpublished Letters from the Period of German Romanticism Including the Unpublished Correspondence of Sophie and Ludwig Tieck
     
    378,95 kr.

    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 German Romanticism.

  • af George C. Schoolfield
    328,95 kr.

    A survey of the literary treatment of musicians in German novels and novellas beginning with the Romantics and ending with Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus. Schoolfield explores the work of a large selection of writers, including Hoffmann, Tieck, Kleist, Brentano, Grillparzer, Werfel and Hesse among many others.

  • - The Criticism and Bibliography of Half a Century
    af Joseph Mileck
    353,95 kr.

    Originally published in celebration of Hermann Hesse's 80th birthday, this highly documented study, practical handbook, and reference work is presented in three parts. Mileck gives a short biography of Hesse's life and a general characterization of his writing, followed by a critical history of Hesse scholarship, and an exhaustive bibliography.

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    347,95 kr.

    Interest in the intersections of various kinds of discourse provides the basis for a closer look at diverse textual strategies of cultural legitimation. This collection presents an introductory essay and eleven studies (written in English and German) that address claims to authority associated with differing kinds of texts from such varied perspectives as political performance, popular culture, history of science, interrelations between verbal texts and other arts, and artistic professionalism. Read together, these studies illuminate historical contingencies and reveal important changes in the "technologies of authority" from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries.The contributors are Claire Baldwin, Thomas Cramer, Arthur Groos, Walter Haug, C. Stephen Jaeger, Jane O. Newman, James F. Poag, David Price, Rudiger Schnell, Lynne Tatlock, Horst Wenzel, and Gerhild Scholz Williams.

  • - Poetry and Vision around 1900
    af Carsten Strathausen
    328,95 kr.

    Examining the relationship between German poetry, philosophy, and visual media around 1900, Carsten Strathausen argues that the poetic works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Stephan George focused on the visible gestalt of language as a means of competing aesthetically with the increasing popularity and "reality effect" of photography and film.

  • - Affinities, Influences, Adaptations
    af Karl Eugene Webb
    297,95 kr.

    Focuses on the striking relationship between one of the most enigmatic poets of the twentieth century and the artists of the Art Nouveau. The author explores the depth of the relationship itself, examines Rilke's activities as an art critic, and analyses the influence of Art Nouveau on the themes, motifs, and structure of the poet's early works.

  • - Studies in the German Novelle of Poetic Realism
    af Walter Silz
    298,95 kr.

    In this 1954 study of poetic realism and the Novelle form, Silz examines nine Novellen by Brentano, Arnim, Droste-Hulshoff, Stifter, Grillsparzer, Keller, Meyer, Storm and Hauptmann. Through his textual interpretation of these works Silz draws the threads of the transition from Romanticism to Naturalism and the development of the Novelle form.

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    298,95 kr.

    This correspondence is a firsthand record of a literary and personal friendship that spanned the years 1906 to 1931. It is significant for both its insights into the lives and works of these two important writers and for its information concerning the eventful time in which they lived.

  • - Introduction and Text
     
    347,95 kr.

    This first complete modern edition of Peter Schott's Lucubraciunculae opened a treasure-trove of information to students of German literature, historians of Humanism, folklorists, and theologians on its publication in 1963. Also included in this volume are the De mensirus syllabarum epithoma and a letter in German to Schott's sister Anna.

  • - Poems by Else Lasker-Schuler
    af Else Lasker-Schuler
    353,95 kr.

    Critics have called Else Lasker-Schuler the greatest of all German women poets and one of the finest Jewish poets. This selection of translations by Robert Newton, supplemented by a biographical and critical introduction and a selected bibliography, was the first substantial presentation of her works in English at its original publication in 1982.

  • - Breitinger's Critische Dichtkunst and the Neoclassic Tradition
    af Jill Anne Kowalik
    297,95 kr.

    Jill Kowalik reevaluates J.J. Breitinger's Critische Dichtkunst (1740) with regard to a heretofore neglected aspect of aesthetics in the early eighteenth century, namely how poesis and historiography could increasingly come to resemble each other in their assumptions, purposes, and methods of representation.

  • - Kaleidoskop Der Verfremdung in Seinen Sieben Marchen
    af Gisela Vitt-Maucher
    333,95 kr.

    Provides a critical study of all seven of Hoffmann's Kunstmarchen. Vitt-Maucher's detailed individual analyses focus on Hoffmann's use of structural, stylistic, and linguistic devices to create poetic deviations from the norms of reality.

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