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Offers an unorthodox approach to the origin, historicity, and authorship of the anonymous Icelandic sagas. Following the publication of her translation of the Laxd la Saga, in this volume Madelung uses her deep knowledge of the text to demonstrate the literary quality and aesthetic structure of the work, especially the function of repetition.

In this first definitive study of Friedrich Schiller's relationship to music, R.M. Longyear discusses Schiller's personal, literary, and philosophical utilization of music as well as the influence of Schiller's works on composers from 1782 through the 1960s.

Presents a series of interpretive readings of the Romische Elegien, Sonette, Chinesisch-deutsche Jarhes- und Tageszeiten, several trilogies, and the shorter cycles of 1821, taking into account the variety of literary devices Goethe employs to link poems together into a cycle.

In this piece of German-American cultural history, Krumpelmann traces the paths and influence of young men from the American South who attended German universities in the age of Goethe. Discussed are Hugh Legare, Jesse Burton Harrison, George Henry Calvert, Thomas Caute Reynolds, Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, James Woodrow, and others.

Originally published in 1965, this volume presented the only comprehensive bibliography of the writings of the Austrian novelist, journalist, and playwright Stefan Zweig and of the books and articles about his work.

Presents interpretation and criticism of Catharina von Greiffenberg's Geistliche Sonnette (1662) with contrastive discussions of the process and structure of Gryphius' sonnets. The author uses an eclectic method to explore the sonnets as viable poetic constructs, and arrives at new conclusions on the nature of the two poets' gifts.

Presents the historical development of topical drama in the German Democratic Republic from 1945 to 1975. The author investigates the sociopolitical function of both dramas and dramatists such as Karl Grunberg, Friedrich Wolf, and Erwin Strittmatter during the various transitional stages of the GDR's growth toward a socialist society.

A study of in the interrelationship of the sciences and the humanities grounded in the writings of Novalis in the early Romantic period. Alongside his analysis of Novalis' fragments relating to mathematics Dyck gives commentary on previous scholarship and a history of mathematics in the eighteenth century as both science and philosophy.

Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) and Hermann Bahr (1863-1934), two of the leading literary personalities in turn-of-the-century Vienna, maintained a friendship that lasted forty years. These letters contribute to an understanding of the life, times, and writings of both of these important authors and provide another perspective on the Jung-Wien group.

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.

Concentrating on a single theme-the German drama, this volume contains essays and interpretations of plays ranging from Hrotsvit von Gandersheim to Bertolt Brecht. Eight of the sixteen essays deal with dramas from the area of Silz's main concentration-the nineteenth century. Also included are a tribute to Silz and a bibliography of his writings.

Presents in comprehensive fashion the extraordinary development of Ariadne auf Naxos from its conception to the final operatic version. The unique collaboration of Hofmannsthal and Strauss is examined and the classical myths that served as a basis for the libretto are investigated.

An essential tool for gaining access to the writings of the humanist Peter Schott. The commentary volume comprises explanatory notes to Volume I, including English summaries of all items and, in addition, pertinent cultural, economic, and political information.

Featuring contributions from eminent Swedish and American Strindberg scholars, this collection of essays addresses the question of how Strindberg's art collides and colludes, ideologically and aesthetically, with the literary doyens of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in both the Scandinavian and the larger Western cultural context.

A study in the Romantic reshaping of space and time to evoke the fantastic interior landscape and the temporal dynamics of subjective experience. Close textual analysis is coupled with frequent reference to literary and intellectual history in the reassessment of the narrative art of Novalis and Tieck.

Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523), Renaissance-Reformation publisher and ardent champion of German nationalism, has previously been characterized as a bitter and vehement political satirist. From this concise, critical survey of his comic writing a more balanced, congenial image of Hutten emerges.

This 1967 volume honouring Professor George S. Lane features eight of his articles on aspects of Tocharian that made him a supreme authority in his field. The essays that follow by Cowgill, Eliason, Haas, Hahn, Hamp, Lehmann, Reitz, Robinson, Watkins, and Widding range from studies of Old Norse and Old English to Hittite.

Shows how Storm's Novellen are made purposeful by the operations of a fictional intelligence, haunted by the fear of passing time. The author challenges the traditional belief that Storm's narratives are products of a sentimental mind.

Analyses the influence of the merchant class on what Leo Balet termed the Verburgerlichung (the'becoming middle-class') of German literature during the eighteenth century. John Van Cleve describes the origins and development of the class and examines its successive images in works by Haller, Schnabel, Schlegel, Gellert, Lessing, and others.

Though not a survey of Bertolt Brecht's poetry, this book covers the major periods in his work and most of its major themes as well. Each of the seven chapters deals with a segment from Brecht's considerably poetic opus.

Reassesses the poetry of Paul Fleming (1609-1640) in the context of its own literary, historical, and social background. The four chapters focus initially on generic and historical context. The study of selected texts leads to more general considerations of the sources and significance of certain major themes.

Critics have long regarded Rilke's Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge as the first novel in the German language to express in both form and content the artistic direction of the twentieth century. This volume provides the reader with insight into the figures and events referenced in Rilke's novel.

This study seeks to alter our understanding of Keller's realism by problematizing the act of reading within fiction. The story of reading in Keller's fiction is a self-conscious meditation on the schism between life and its literary representation - and it emphasizes the incapacity of that representation to influence the life it is based on.

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.

The first comprehensive study of the dramas of Nicodemus Frischlin (1547-1590), one of the most versatile and complex playwrights of early modern Germany. Frischlin's broad range encompassed biblical, confessional, and historical drama, all of which expressed bold social and political criticism.

In this volume Stephen Kaplowitt scrutinizes the entire lyric production of Minnesanger from Der von Kurenberg to Walther von der Vogelweide, identifying and analysing every example of the motif. He concludes that, although the motif is widespread, its significance has been considerably exaggerated.

Discusses early modern literature in central Europe, focusing on connections between humanism and scientific thought; the relationship of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century literature to ancient and Renaissance traditions; the social and political context of early modern writing; and poets' self-consciousness about their work.

Philosophers, theologians, and literary historians discuss important aspects of Nietzsche's attack on Judaism and Christianity. The book contains studies of his view of biblical figures, Luther and Pascal as well as comparisons of his thought with that of Spinoza, Lessing, Heine, and Kierkegaard.

In this closely argued and admirably lucid study of the late medieval didactic epic Der Ring, Christa Wolf Cross analyses the dynamics of the narrator-reader relationship. Cross's investigation leads her to propound new answers to a number of questions that have long perplexed Wittenweiler scholars.

This valuable collection of eight original and penetrating essays by American scholars honours the centenary of the Austrian dramatist's birth. The contributors attend to themes from depictions of death to the influence of Nietzsche on Schnitzler's work and his reception in France.