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Gerhart Hauptmann and the Naturalist Drama Revised and Updatedby John Osborne
Routledge 1998; US$ 44.95John Osbourne answers some difficult questions in Gerhart Hauptmann and the Naturalist Drama, a revised and updated version of his The Naturalist Drama in Germany, now widely acknowledged as the standard introduction to the subject. more...
Der Tod der Königinby Peter-André Alt
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2004; US$ 137.20Peter-André Alt examines the political role accorded to queens in the Early Modern Age, using 17th century German and English tragedies. With its interdisciplinary approach, the book also considers the pictorial arts and legal history and advances our und more...
Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theaterby Jan Sjåvik
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2006; US$ 94.99The literature of Scandinavia is amazingly rich and varied, consisting of the works produced by the countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, and stretching from the ancient Norse Sagas to the present day. While much of it is unknown outside of the region, some has gained worldwide popularity, including the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, the stories of Isak Dinesen, and the plays of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. more...
Meesterschap in tweevoudby Anne Marie Musschoot; Piet Couttenier
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 41.50In hun tijd kon het werk van de Vlaamse schrijfsters Rosalie (1834-1875) en Virginie (1836-1923) Loveling al rekenen op de grote waardering van critici als E.J. Potgieter en J. ten Brink. Maar pas nu wordt duidelijk hoe vooruitstrevend de opvattingen van deze zusters waren. Zij schreven niet alleen aangrijpende verhalen waarin zij de eigentijdse werkelijkheid 'realistisch', sober en beheerst weergaven, maar namen ook nadrukkelijk geavanceerde standpunten in over intellectuele, filosofische en maatschappelijke vraagstukken. Als vrouw eisten zij het recht op om te studeren en te schrijven. more...
Fastnachtspieleby Klaus Ridder
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 161.00The volume presents the papers delivered to an international conference on late medieval carnival plays (Blaubeuren 2007). Representatives from German, French and Dutch Studies, together with theatre and cultural historians examine carnival plays from the following perspectives: play topics and municipal politics, performance and reception, relations with sacred drama, with literary and local traditions and customs, and in addition, issues around editing and commentary, together with comparative literary aspects. more...
Vom Genius zum Medienästhetenby Nina Birkner
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 124.00The study concerns itself with the Künstlerdrama [Drama of the artist], a genre with which research in literary and drama studies has so far scarcely concerned itself, despite its popularity. The study first examines as exemplars theatrical texts by Gerhart Hauptmann, Bertolt Brecht, Wolfgang Bauer, Thomas Bernhard, Falk Richter and others both with reference to the texts and from the perspective of field theory. The study then presents an historical overview of the genesis of the genre and the central motifs of the 20th century Künstlerdrama. more...
Methodengeschichte der Germanistikby Jost Schneider
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 232.00The History of Methodology in German Studies contains comprehensive and systematically arranged articles on all the important methodologies deployed in German Studies. The individual contributions contain a definition and an explanation of central specialist terms together with an analysis of the institutional history, i.e. in each case the circumstances are described which led to the establishment of the method. There then follow accounts of the most important manifestos and the most frequently cited and influential examples of their use. Account is taken both of Modern and Medieval German Studies and of linguistics. more...
Journeys from Scandinaviaby Elisabeth Oxfeldt
University of Minnesota Press 2010; US$ 75.00For all of the scholarship done on postcolonial literatures, little has been applied to Scandinavian writing. Yet, beginning with the onset of tourism beyond Scandinavia in the 1840s, a compelling body of prose works documents Scandinavian attitudes toward foreign countries and further shows how these Scandinavian travelers sought to portray themselves to uncharted cultures.Focusing on Danish and Norwegian travelogues, Elisabeth Oxfeldt traces the evolution of Scandinavian travel writing over two centuries using pivotal texts from each era, including works by Hans Christian Andersen, Knut Hamsun, and Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen). Oxfeldt situates each one in its historical and geopolitical context, and her close readings delineate how each travelogue... more...
Von Kraftmenschen und Schwächlingenby Martin Blawid
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2011; US$ 150.00This work examines the literary conceptions of ?masculinity? in German and Italian dramatic texts of the late 18th century. On the basis of a historical-epistemological definition of masculinity and of contemporary theoretical models of ?men?s studies? in the 20th and 21st century, the following sample texts are analyzed: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing?s Minna von Barnhelm oder das Soldatenglück, Johann Wolfgang Goethe?s Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand, Friedrich Schiller?s Die Räuber as well as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?s/Lorenzo Da Ponte?s Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni ossia il Dissoluto Punito and Così fan tutte o sia La scuola degli amanti. more...
Oor krygers, korrelkoppe en konkelaarsby Max du Preez
Random House Struik 2010; US$ 18.00Moenie verwag dat hierdie stories enigsins gaan wees soos die geskiedenis wat jy op skool of universiteit geleer het nie. Max du Preez sit die mense, die karakters, terug in die geskiedenis. Oor krygers, korrelkoppe en konkelaars bevat ?n keur van die verhale uit die uiters gewilde Of Warriors, Lovers and Prophets van 2004 en Of Tricksters, Tyrants and Turncoats van 2008. Heelwat van dié stories is verder nagevors en herskryf. Daar is ook drie splinternuwe verhale: die merkwaardige storie van die Franse Hugenoteseun wat skipbreuk gely en deur ?n Xhosahoofman as sy eie aangeneem is; die Engelse lady wat haar glanslewe in Londen vir ?n ossewa verruil en voor en tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog in die ou Transvaal gesmous het; en die groep Duitse... more...









