The End of Modernism

William Collins Donahue

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 124
• Nobel laureate Elias Canetti wrote his novel Auto-da-Fé ( Die Blendung ) when he and the twentieth century were still quite young. Rooted in the cultu... Lees meer

Bifocal Vision

John Neubauer

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 68
• Relying on an edition of Novalis' notebooks which includes much of the author's scientific and philosophical musings, Neubauer's study evaluates Noval... Lees meer

Hermann Hesse and His Critics

Joseph Mileck

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 21
• Originally published in celebration of Hermann Hesse's 80th birthday, this highly documented study, practical handbook, and reference work for Hesse s... Lees meer

Schiller and Music

R M Longyear

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 54
• In this first definitive study of Friedrich Schiller's relationship to music, R. M. Longyear discusses Schiller's personal, literary, and philosophica... Lees meer

Novalis

Frederick Hiebel

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 10
• 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 R... Lees meer

Wilhelm Waiblinger in Italy

Lawrence S Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 9
• This study traces the importance of Italy as a source of literary inspiration in the work of the Swabian poet Wilhelm Waiblinger (1804-1830), who spen... Lees meer

Literary Culture in the Holy Roman Empire, 1555-1720

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 113
• These essays discuss approaches to early modern literature in central Europe, focusing on four pivotal areas: connections between humanism and the new... Lees meer

Studies in Nietzsche and the Classical Tradition

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 85
• These fifteen essays deal with Nietzsche's view of various aspects of classical antiquity as compared to those of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Vo... Lees meer

The Ariadne auf Naxos of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss

Donald G Daviau, George J Buelow

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 80
• This book presents in comprehensive fashion the extraordinary development of Ariadne auf Naxos from its conception to the final operatic version. The ... Lees meer

Magister Ludens

Christa Wolf Cross

• Paperback | Duits | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 102
• In this closely argued and admirably lucid study of the late medieval didactic epic Der Ring , Christa Wolf Cross analyzes the dynamics of the narrato... Lees meer

The Poetics of Historical Perspectivism

Jill Anne Kowalik

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 114
• Jill Kowalik reevaluates J. J. Breitinger's Critische Dichtkunst (1740) with regard to a heretofore neglected aspect of aesthetics in the early eighte... Lees meer

E. T. A. Hoffmanns Märchenschaffen

Gisela Vitt-Maucher

• Paperback | Duits | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 108
• This book provides a critical study of all seven of Hoffmann's Kunstmärchen . Vitt-Maucher's detailed individual analyses focus on Hoffmann's use of s... Lees meer

Structures of Influence

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 98
• This collection of essays featuring contributions from eminent Swedish and American Strindberg scholars addresses the question of how Strindberg's art... Lees meer

Gerhart Hauptmann's Before Daybreak

Gerhart Hauptmann

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 92
• Before Daybreak , the first important drama of German naturalism, was also the first play of Gerhart Hauptmann, the most significant naturalist of the... Lees meer

The Laxdoela Saga

A Margaret Arent Madelung

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 74
• This study is an unorthodox approach to the origin, historicity, and authorship of the anonymous Icelandic sagas. Following the publication of her tra... Lees meer

Theater in the Planned Society

H G Huettich

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 88
• This study presents the historical development of topical drama in the German Democratic Republic from 1945 to 1975. The author investigates the socio... Lees meer

Liebe Und Ehe

• Paperback | Duits | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 65
• With der Stricker, an early representative of the post-courtly period, dawns the beginning of a new attitude towards love and marriage. Poems by the i... Lees meer

Friedrich Hebbel's Conception of Movement in the Absolute and in History

Sten G Flygt

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 7
• Flygt undertakes an analysis first of Hebbel's writings on social and historical progress in his letters and diaries and then of his plays, in order t... Lees meer

The Intervention of Philology

Jane O Newman

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 122
• This book examines the interplay of history, textuality, dramaturgy, and politics in the school dramas of Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635-1683). Th... Lees meer

Brecht and the Bible

G Ronald S J Murphy

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 96
• This study identifies the underlying patterns of persistent biblical allusion in the work of renowned playwright Bertolt Brecht. Rather than reducing ... Lees meer

The Correspondence of Arthur Schnitzler and Raoul Auernheimer with Raoul Auernheimer's Aphorisms

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 73
• 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 in... Lees meer

The Letters of Arthur Schnitzler to Hermann Bahr

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 89
• Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) and Hermann Bahr (1863-1934), two of the leading literary personalities in turn-of-the-century Vienna, maintained a frie... Lees meer

Ludwig Tieck and America

Percy Matenko

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 12
• This study explores the question of Tieck's reception in and influence on the American literary scene before 1900, with the additional goal of sheddin... Lees meer

Franz Grillparzer's Portraiture of Men

Frederic E Coenen

• Paperback | Engels | University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a | nr. 4
• In this study the author challenges previous scholarship which characterizes the work of Austrian dramatist Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872) as eminently... Lees meer