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Einführung in die Literatur des Naturalismus
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 12.94Hauptbeschreibung In seiner Einführung in die Literatur des deutschen Naturalismus sichtet Wolfgang Bunzel den aktuellen Forschungsstand, der sich gegenüber den 70er-Jahren merklich erweitert hat, und greift auf wenig bekanntes Material zurück. Er berücksichtigt auch jüngere Methodenkonzepte, durch die veränderte Fragestellungen in die Literaturwissenschaft... more...
Österreichische Schriftstellerinnen 1800-2000
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 34.50Hauptbeschreibung Die Forschung hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten zur Kenntnis genommen, dass Frauen ebenso wie Männer bemerkenswerte künstlerische Leistungen hervorbringen können. Sigrid Schmid-Bortenschlager gehört zu den Ersten, die "Shakespeare?s Schwestern" wiederentdeckt haben. In dieser Literaturgeschichte fasst sie die zahlreichen Publikationen... more...
France - Allemagne, regards et objets croisés
Narr Francke Attempto 2011; US$ 73.33Hauptbeschreibung Un lieu commun de la critique littéraire oppose l'histoire littéraire de la France, perçue comme un continuum presque exempt de ruptures ou de temps faibles, et portée par des écoles ou des " pléiades " de créateurs, à d'autres littératures européennes, dominées par une figure majeure qui en produit la synthèse: c'est le cas, de... more...
Theater, culture, and community in Reformation Bern, 1523-1555
BRILL 2002; US$ 138.00This study examines the sociocultural context of ten plays, including 15 song texts, performed during the formative years of the Bernese Reformation. It treats not only three pre-reform carnival plays by Niklaus Manuel, but also six newly edited works by local court secretary Hans von Rute. more...
"Heil dem Bürger des kleinen Städtchens"
De Gruyter 2002; US$ 133.00Proceeding from an examination of basic tenets in systems theory, the author sets out to review received assumptions about the history of idyllic literature in the 18th century. Consideration of the social theories underlying the idyll as a literary genre casts a different light on the source material from Geßner to Goethe, revealing that in Enlightenment... more...
Der Schmuggel politischer Schriften
De Gruyter 2001; US$ 133.00The study examines the factors favouring the establishment of an audience for exile literature in Switzerland and the German states in the first half of the 19th century. In the Vormärz period and the 1848 revolution, various Swiss publishers printed writings by German refugees set on influencing the political developments in their home land. Accordingly,... more...
Colonial Space
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 143.00Noyes demonstrates the agency of literature in the structuring of colonial space using a series of colonial texts from German South West Africa in the period 1884-1915. The social production of space in colonialization is achieved through establishing and manipulating boundaries. The production of space is itself an ordering process, and as such,... more...
No Man's Land
Taylor and Francis 1996; US$ 47.95A collection of essays, memoirs and plays that represent an early attempt to assess and reassess the German Democratic Republic's theatre following the political events and turning points of 1989 and afterwards. Contributors include Christoph Funke, Carl Weber and Jost Herand. more...
Lesarten ? Die Rezeption des Werks von Edgar Hilsenrath
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 147.00?Wide-screen book? or ?Night of the Nights?? The verdict of German literary critics was already oscillating between these two extremes in 1978. This controversy, which was ignited by Hilsenrath?s first work Nacht (?Night?) and was specific to Germany compared with the international reception of his work, runs throughout his writing. This study traces... more...
Poietischer Realismus
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 98.00The novella from the Age of Realism does not represent literary reality, but literary artificiality. It is characterised by an aesthetic quality which until now has only been commented on marginally. The novellas display 'artfulness' by continuing the Romantic programme through strategies of aestheticisation of both a formal nature (e.g. framing) and... more...









