Böcker av George C. Schoolfield

Presenting 32 works of literary decadence written between 1884 and 1927, Schoolfield throws light on the close intellectual kinship of authors from August Strindberg to Bram Stoker to Thomas Mann, and on the ingredients, themes, motifs and preconceptions that characterized decadent literature.

Presents verse translations, with original texts on facing pages, of representative lyrics by ninety-nine poets of the German Baroque. An extensive introduction discusses the Baroque culture of the German-language realm and brief biographies of the poets conclude the volume.

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.

Illuminates the major aspects of the works of Germany's greatest 20th-century poet.

The poems of Elmer Diktonius place him in the forefront of literary expressionism. Schoolfield provides the uninitated reader with a biographical and critical overview of Diktonius's life and work and calls attention to his artistic triumphs, defeats, and contradictions.

?Edith Sodergran: Modernist Poet in Finland is a very sober and chaste piece of scholarly work, which preserves a temperate distance from the object at which it is intensely directed. It is a work based on a very thorough knowledge and a very keen understanding not only of Edith Sodergran and her poetry, but also of the unique Finland-Swedish and Russian-German blend of cultural environment from which Edith Sodergran's poetry must have received its incentive. ... Schoolfield runs through Edith Sodergran's poetry, giving a vast number of her poems minute, sensitive, and sensible attention. Not only are his comments admirably distinct, but they are also of a kind that opens a poetic universe to us. From that point of view Schoolfield's book on Edith Sodergran ... is superior to any single book that has up to now been written about her.?-Scandinavian Studies