German Literature Of The Nineteenth Century

Author : Clayton Koelb,Eric Downing
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571132503

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German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832-1899 by Clayton Koelb,Eric Downing Pdf

New essays providing an overview of the major movements, genres, and authors of 19th-century German literature in social and political context. This volume provides an overview of the major movements, genres, and authors of 19th-century German literature in the period from the death of Goethe in 1832 to the publication of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams in 1899. Although the primary focus is on imaginative literature and its genres, there is also substantial discussion of related topics, including music-drama, philosophy, and the social sciences. Literature is considered in its cultural and socio-political context, and the German literary scene takes its place in a wider European perspective. Following the editors' introduction, essays consider the impact of Romanticism on subsequent literary movements, the effectsof major movements and writers of non-German-speaking Europe on the development of German literature, and the impact of politics on the changing cultural scene. The second section presents overviews of the principal movements ofthe time (Junges Deutschland, Vormärz, Biedermeier, Poetic Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, and Impressionism), and the third section focuses on the major genres of lyric poetry, prose fiction, drama, and music-drama. The final section provides bibliographical resources in the form of a critical bibliography and a list of primary sources. Contributors to the volume are distinguished scholars of German literature, culture, and history from North America andEurope: Andrew Webber, Lilian Furst, Arne Koch, Robert Holub, Gail Finney, Ernst Grabovszki, Benjamin Bennett, Jeffrey Sammons, Thomas Pfau, Christopher Morris, John Pizer, Thomas Spencer. Clayton Koelb is Guy B. Johnson Distinguished Professor of German at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Eric Downing is Associate Professor of German at the same institution.

Author : Hermann Boechenstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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German Literature of the Nineteenth Century by Hermann Boechenstein Pdf

Author : Charlotte Woodford,Benedict Schofield
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571134875

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The German Bestseller in the Late Nineteenth Century by Charlotte Woodford,Benedict Schofield Pdf

A much-needed look at the fiction that was actually read by masses of Germans in the late nineteenth century, and the conditions of its publication and reception. The late nineteenth century was a crucial period for the development of German fiction. Political unification and industrialization were accompanied by the rise of a mass market for German literature, and with it the beginnings ofthe German bestseller.Offering escape, romance, or adventure, as well as insights into the modern world, nineteenth-century bestsellers often captured the imagination of readers well into the twentieth century and beyond. However, many have been neglected by scholars. This volume offers new readings of literary realism by focusing not on the accepted intellectual canon but on commercially successful fiction in its material and social contexts. It investigates bestsellers from writers such as Freytag, Dahn, Jensen, Raabe, Viebig, Stifter, Auerbach, Storm, Möllhausen, Marlitt, Suttner, and Thomas Mann. The contributions examine the aesthetic strategies that made the works sucha success, and writers' attempts to appeal simultaneously on different levels to different readers. Bestselling writers often sought to accommodate the expectations of publishers and the marketplace, while preserving some sense ofartistic integrity. This volume sheds light on the important effect of the mass market on the writing not just of popular works, but of German prose fiction on all levels. Contributors: Christiane Arndt, Caroline Bland, Elizabeth Boa, Anita Bunyan, Katrin Kohl, Todd Kontje, Peter C. Pfeiffer, Nicholas Saul, Benedict Schofield, Ernest Schonfield, Martin Swales, Charlotte Woodford. Charlotte Woodford is Lecturer in German and Directorof Studies in Modern Languages at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. Benedict Schofield is Senior Lecturer in German and Head of the Department of German at King's College London.

Author : J. P. Stern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000762914

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Idylls & Realities by J. P. Stern Pdf

Originally published in 1971, this book outlines the period of Germany’s belated industrial revolution and suggests why German literature does not, before the 1880s, contribute to the tradition of European realism. It considers the alternatives to realism offered in three genres of drama, poetry and prose fiction. The book closely analyses specific texts, both in the original and in translation, with comparisons with non-German works.

Author : Michael Perraudin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : 1571819894

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Literature, the Volk and the Revolution in Mid-nineteenth Century Germany by Michael Perraudin Pdf

Between the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, poverty reached new extremes in Germany, as in other European countries, and gave rise to a class of disaffected poor, leading to the widespread expectation of a social revolution. Whether welcomed or feared, it dominated private and public debate to a larger extent than is generally assumed as is shown in this study on the reflections in literature of what was called the "Social Question." Examining works by Heine, Eichendorff, Nestroy, Büchner, Grillparzer, and Theodor Storm, the author reveals an acute awareness of political issues in an era in literature which is often seen as tending to quiescence and withdrawal from public preoccupations.

Author : Lynne Tatlock,Matt Erlin
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1571133089

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German Culture in Nineteenth-century America by Lynne Tatlock,Matt Erlin Pdf

"This volume examines the circulation and adaptation of German culture in the United States during the so-called long nineteenth century - the century of mass German migration to the new world, of industrialization and new technologies, American westward expansion and Civil War, German struggle toward national unity and civil rights, and increasing literacy on both sides of the Atlantic. Building on recent trends in the humanities and especially on scholarship done under the rubric of cultural transfer, German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America places its emphasis on the processes by which Americans took up, responded to, and transformed German cultural material for their own purposes. Informed by a conception of culture as multivalent, permeable, and protean, the book focuses on the mechanisms, agents, and means of mediation between cultural spaces."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jeffrey L. Sammons
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X001508640

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Imagination and History by Jeffrey L. Sammons Pdf

A selection of essays on nineteenth-century post-Romantic German literature and literary history originally published in various places over the past twenty years. Topics include: the Bildungs- roman, Eduard Mörike, Heinrich Heine, Ludolf Wienbarg, Berthold Auerbach, Gustav Freytag, German novels on America, Wilhelm Raabe, and the evaluation of literature. Several of the essays have been revised or expanded and in some cases they have been supplied with retrospective postscripts to bring them up to date.

Author : Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226400654

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Respectability and Deviance by Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres Pdf

The first major study in English of nineteenth-century German women writers, this book examines their social and cultural milieu along with the layers of interpretation and representation that inform their writing. Studying a period of German literary history that has been largely ignored by modern readers, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres demonstrates that these writings offer intriguing opportunities to examine such critical topics as canon formation; the relationship between gender, class, and popular culture; and women, professionalism, and technology. The writers she explores range from Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, who managed to work her way into the German canon, to the popular serial novelist E. Marlitt, from liberal writers such as Louise Otto and Fanny Lewald, to the virtually unknown novelist and journalist Claire von Glümer. Through this investigation, Boetcher Joeres finds ambiguities, compromises, and subversions in these texts that offer an extensive and informative look at the exciting and transformative epoch that so much shaped our own.

Author : Andrew Cusack
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1571133860

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Wanderer in 19th-century German Literature by Andrew Cusack Pdf

"Using a method based on New Historicism, but with added emphasis on literature as cultural commentary, Andrew Cusack's study traces the motif's intertextual connections, how it receives meaning from non-literary discourses, and how it transmits meaning into the social sphere by molding individual and collective self-conceptions. The study draws on a corpus of ten prose narratives that reflect the vast scope of the motif and show how its function changes. The study pays scrupulous attention to the historical specificity of each work and to its relationship to contemporary aesthetic and philosophical currents, revealing the wanderer motif to be a significant vehicle of cultural memory that sustained the ideas of the Enlightenment and of Romanticism into the latter part of the century."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Vance Byrd,Ervin Malakaj
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110657104

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Market Strategies and German Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century by Vance Byrd,Ervin Malakaj Pdf

Building upon recent German Studies research addressing the industrialization of printing, the expansion of publication venues, new publication formats, and readership, Market Strategies maps a networked literary field in which the production, promotion, and reception of literature from the Enlightenment to World War II emerges as a collaborative enterprise driven by the interests of actors and institutions. These essays demonstrate how a network of authors, editors, and publishers devised mutually beneficial and, at times, conflicting strategies for achieving success on the rapidly evolving nineteenth-century German literary market. In particular, the contributors consider how these actors shaped a nineteenth-century literary market, which included the Jewish press, highbrow and lowbrow genres, and modernist publications. They explore the tensions felt as markets expanded and restrictions were imposed, which yielded resilient new publication strategies, fostered criticism, and led to formal innovations. The volume thus serves as major contribution to interdisciplinary research in nineteenth-century German literary, media, and cultural studies.

Author : Rufus Hallmark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135854577

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German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century by Rufus Hallmark Pdf

German Lieder in the Nineteenth-Century provides a detailed introduction to the German lied. Beginning with its origin in the literary and musical culture of Germany in the nineteenth-century, the book covers individual composers, including Shubert, Schumann, Brahms, Strauss, Mahler and Wolf, the literary sources of lieder, the historical and conceptual issues of song cycles, and issues of musical technique and style in performance practice. Written by eminent music scholars in the field, each chapter includes detailed musical examples and analysis. The second edition has been revised and updated to include the most recent research of each composer and additional musical examples.

Author : Simone Lässig,Andreas Weiß
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789202793

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The World of Children by Simone Lässig,Andreas Weiß Pdf

In an era of rapidly increasing technological advances and international exchange, how did young people come to understand the world beyond their doorsteps? Focusing on Germany through the lens of the history of knowledge, this collection explores various media for children—from textbooks, adventure stories, and other literature to board games, museums, and cultural events—to probe what they aimed to teach young people about different cultures and world regions. These multifaceted contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies delve into the ways that children absorbed, combined, and adapted notions of the world.

Author : Vance Byrd
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611488555

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A Pedagogy of Observation by Vance Byrd Pdf

This interdisciplinary study considers how panorama entertainments—large-scale painted canvases of historical scenes and distant landscapes—captured the German literary imagination.

Author : Siegfried Mews
Publisher : University of North Carolina S
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 146965797X

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Studies in German Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Siegfried Mews Pdf

Twenty-one distinguished American Germanists pay tribute to F. E. Coenen, previous longtime editor (1952-1968) of UNC Press' Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures series. Their essays--reflecting a variety of approaches--deal with many major (Goethe, Kleist, Droste-Hulshoff, Keller, Nietsche, Rilke, Kafka, Hesse, Brecht, Thomas Mann, Musil) and some minor figures who have influenced the literary scene after 1800 and add significantly to both scholarship in and interpretation of modern German literature.

Author : J. P. Stern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1981-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521239834

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Re-Interpretations by J. P. Stern Pdf

This is a reissue of Professor Stern's distinguished study of German prose from the death of Goethe to the heyday of the Wilhelminian Empire. Professor Stern argues that nineteenth-century German prose is characterized by a particular combination of the prophetic and the archaic, of the existential and the parochial, and is only partially and sometimes not at all related to the social and political realities of the age. In this sense, German literature of the period stands apart from the main stream of European realism and has, for that reason, received little attention from the common reader outside its own country. The book contains studies of Goethe, Grillparzer, Büchner, Schopenhauer, Heine, Stifter and Fontane, all of whom re-interpreted the world from points of view other than that of the common and commonly explored social certainties of their age. Consequently, Professor Stern suggests alternative criteria to the common notion of realism with which to asses their work.