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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.

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.

A collection of thirteen essays by comparatists and Germanists published in celebration of the scholar and poet Herman Salinger. The essays range from Greek antiquity to the twentieth century - from the Sophoclean Electra to Rilke.

Relying on an edition of Novalis' notebooks which includes much of the author's scientific and philosophical musings, Neubauer's study evaluates Novalis' outline for a creative science and philosophical background of the eighteenth century.

These essays represent the push to provide interdisciplinary Brecht research to English-speaking audiences following his death in 1956 and offer novel readings of his works indicative of the major literary questions of the time. The essays explore both Brecht's theoretical approach and political thought.

Provides an evaluation of the ideological significance of the Arminius trope in patriotic German literature. Beginning with the German Humanists and ranging through the works of Hutten, Lohenstein, J. E. Schlegel, Klopstock, Kleist, Grabbe and others.

Offers an analysis of Heinrich Boll's short satirical prose, which is generally acclaimed as his most successful fiction. The author shows how Boll shifted the form and structure of his satirical writing over time in response to changing political and social conditions, focusing on Boll's changing conception of satire from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Offers an analysis of Hebbel's writings on social and historical progress in order to draw conclusions on Hebbel's conception of movement. Noting oscillations throughout Hebbel's life between social progressivism and conservatism, Flygt turns his focus to Hebbel's conceptions of flux and change both in society and the individual.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.