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Author : Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521785731
A history of German literature to 1990, written from a post-Reunification standpoint.
Author : David E. Wellbery,Judith Ryan,Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674015037
'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.
Author : Roger Paulin
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800642157
From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin’s groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty years. The work represents his major research interests of Romanticism and the reception of Shakespeare in Germany, but also explores a broader range of themes, from poetry and the public memorialization of poets to fairy stories - all meticulously researched, yet highly accessible. As a comprehensive examination of German literary history in the period 1700-1900, the collection not only includes accounts of the lives and work of Goethe, Schiller, the Schlegels, and Gundolf (amongst others), serving to nuance our understanding of these figures in history, but also considers diverse (and often underexplored) topics, from academic freedom to the rise of travel literature. The essays have been reformulated, corrected, and updated to add references to recent works. However, the core foundations of the originals remain, and just as when they were first published, the value of these essays – to researchers, students, and all those who are interested in German literary history – cannot be overstated.
Author : Andrew Webber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107062009
This book provides an informative overview of literary developments in Berlin since 1750, with more detailed readings of exemplary key texts.
Author : Michael Minden
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780745657257
This accessible and fresh account of German writing since 1750 is a case study of literature as a cultural and spiritual resource in modern societies. Beginning with the emergence of German language literature on the international stage in the mid-eighteenth century, the book plays down conventional labels and periodisation of German literary history in favour of the explanatory force of international cultural impact. It explains, for instance, how specifically German and Austrian conditions shaped major contributions to European literary culture such as Romanticism and the ‘language scepticism’ of the early twentieth century. From the First World War until reunification in 1990, Germany’s defining experiences have been ones of catastrophe. The book provides a compelling overview of the different ways in which German literature responded to historical disaster. They are, first, Modernism (the ‘Literature of Negation’), second, the literature of totalitarian regimes (Third Reich and German Democratic Republic), and third the various creative strategies and evasions of the capitalist democratic multi-medial cultures of the Weimar and Federal Republics. The volume achieves a balance between textual analysis and cultural theory that gives it value as an introductory reference source and as an original study and as such will be essential reading for students and scholars alike.
Author : Wilhelm Scherer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1099209215
Author : Robert Blankenship
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571135742
The many fictional suicides in the literature of the German Democratic Republic have been greatly misunderstood. The common assumption is that authoritarian oppression in East Germany led to an anomalous abundance of real suicides, so that fictional suicides in GDR literature constitute a simple, realistic reflection of East German society. Robert Blankenship challenges this assumption by providing both a history of suicide in GDR literature and close readings of individual texts, revealing that suicides in GDR literature, rather than simply reflecting historical suicides, contain rich literary attributes such as intertextuality, haunting, epistolarity, and unorthodox narrative strategies. Such literariness offered subversive potential beyond suggesting that real people killed themselves in a communist country. This first book-length study of fictional suicides in East German literature provides insight into the complex and dynamic rhetoric of the GDR. Blankenship's underlying claim is that GDR literature ought to be read as literature, with literary methodology, not despite the country's politically and rhetorically charged nature, but precisely because of it. Suicide in East German Literature will be of interest to scholars of GDR literature, humanities-oriented scholars of suicide, and those who are interested in the complex relationship between literature and history. Robert Blankenship is Assistant Professor of German at California State University, Long Beach.
Author : Eva Kolinsky,Wilfried van der Will
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521568706
One of the most intriguing questions of our time is how some of the masterpieces of modernity originated in a country in which personal liberty and democracy were slow to emerge. This Companion provides an authoritative account of modern German culture since the onset of industrialisation, the rise of mass society and the nation state. Newly written and researched by experts in their respective fields, individual chapters trace developments in German culture - including national identity, class, Jews in German society, minorities and women, the functions of folk and mass culture, poetry, drama, theatre, dance, music, art, architecture, cinema and mass media - from the nineteenth century to the present. Guidance is given for further reading and a chronology is provided. In its totality the Companion shows how the political and social processes that shaped modern Germany are intertwined with cultural genres and their agendas of creative expression.
Author : Nicholas Saul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521848916
Explains the development of Romantic arts and culture in Germany, with both individual artists and key themes covered in detail.
Author : Wilhelm Scherer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Literature
ISBN : OCLC:247196107
Author : Clayton Koelb,Eric Downing
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571132503
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 : Hugh Barr Nisbet
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783747726
This volume provides a valuable contribution to our knowledge of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century intellectual life inside and outside Germany. —Prof. Karl S. Guthke, Harvard University This elegant collection of essays ranges across eighteenth and nineteenth-century thought, covering philosophy, science, literature and religion in the ‘Age of Goethe.’ A recognised authority in the field, Nisbet grapples with the major voices of the Enlightenment and gives pride of place to the figures of Lessing, Herder, Goethe and Schiller. These eleven essays range widely in their compass of thought and intellectual discourse, dealing incisively with themes including the philosophical implications of literature and the relationship between religion, science and politics. The result is an accomplished reflection on German thought, but also on its rebirth, as Nisbet argues for the relevance of these Enlightenment thinkers for the readers of today. The first half of this collection focuses predominantly on eighteenth-century thought, where names like Lessing, Goethe and Herder, but also Locke and Voltaire, feature. The second has a wider chronological scope, discussing authors such as Winckelmann and Schiller, while branching out from discussions of religion, philosophy and literature to explore the sciences. Issues of biology, early environmentalism, and natural history also form part of this volume. The collection concludes with an examination of changing attitudes towards art in the aftermath of the ‘Age of Goethe.’ The essays in this volume have been previously published separately, but are brought together in this collection to present Nisbet’s widely-acclaimed perspectives on this fascinating period of German thought. It will be of interest to scholars and students of the intellectual life of Europe during the Enlightenment, while its engaging and lucid style will also appeal to the general reader.
Author : Ernst Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015000513898
Author : Werner Scherer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:989287201
Author : Lorella Bosco,Micaela Latini
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527560642
The recent emergence of the discipline of literary animal studies regards literature in itself as constitutive element of a history of knowledge. The discipline has led not only to the expansion of the corpus of texts traditionally connected with animals, but also established new concepts and methods for revising conventional cultural dichotomies (subject and object, human and animal). The 10 essays collected in this volume are devoted to a wide range of case studies on the relationship between animality and poetics in German-language literature since the 19th century. They display a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to a number of texts packed with references to animals, considered not primarily as objects of literature, but as agents endowed with an active role in the production of literature, and which have left repressed or forgotten traces in texts.