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Medieval German Literatureby Marion Gibbs; Sidney M. Johnson
Routledge 2000; US$ 41.95This comprehensive survey examines Germanic literature from the eighth century to the early fifteenth century. The authors treat the large body of late-medieval lyric poetry in detail for the first time. more...
A Companion to Middle High German literature to the 14th centuryby F.G. Gentry
BRILL 2002; US$ 237.00A guide to mediaeval German literature from its beginnings in the eighth century to the 14th century. Chapters deal either with a chronological period, such as the 13th century, or with specific genres, such as drama. The development of the German language in the mediaeval period is also covered. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Goetheby Lesley Sharpe
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 26.00This volume places Goethe in the context of the Germany and Europe of his lifetime. His literary work is covered in individual chapters on poetry, drama, prose fiction and autobiography. A wide-ranging survey of reception and an extensive guide to further reading round off this volume. more...
Romane Iby Christian Weise; Hans-Gert Roloff
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2006; US$ 186.30Volumes 17 to 19 of Christian Weise's Complete Works present what are known as his political novels. The novels are highly significant for the history both of the genre and of society. Weise composed them as symbols of his political philosophy and wrote them for the training of the new caste of bourgeois officials, who had to behave 'skilfully' - i. e. 'politically' - in the service of the courts. The four novels are of central importance for Middle German literature in the second half of the 17th century. more...
Romantic Vision, Ethical Contextby Geza von Molnar; Jochen Schulte-Sasse
University of Minnesota Press 1987; US$ 67.50Exploring the full range of Novalis's (the pen name of the German poet and philosopher Friedrich von Hardenberg) work, von Molnar shows how he dealt, in theory and practice, with a central issue in Romanticism?the emerging concept of the autonomous self and its relation. more...
Hermeneutik und Bibelexegese beim jungen Goetheby Thomas Tillmann
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2006; US$ 132.30The work presents the degree to which early Goethe is affected by the debate concerning biblical exegesis. Goethe provides concept-theoretical paradigms particularly on pietism, which he uses in a playful way in the development of his concept of genius. T more...
Grenzen des Ichby Stefan Keppler
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2006; US$ 118.80This study treats a central complex of issues which have hitherto received little attention from Goethe scholars, namely the question of the conception and position of the subject in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novels and shorter narrative pieces. In hi more...
Autobiography of Goetheby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; John Oxenford
The Floating Press 1848; US$ 8.99In the work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) one can find the seed of most German thought, literature, science and theology. A hugely influential man, not only on Germany but on the rest of Europe, Goethe's best known work is the two-part play Faust . Goethe was a privy-councilor to the Duchy of Weimar and his interest in foreign literature helped birth the concept of the world literature. George Eliot called Goethe "Germany's greatest man of letters…and... more...
Sprachskepsis Und Poetologieby Christian Mittermüller
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 93.00In his late novels, Goethe formulates a profound critique of language and thus challenges his own capacity to represent. Goethes fundamental scepticism about language derives from an irresolvable ambiguity of words coupled with limitations on their expressiveness; in the case of Elective Affinities and Journeyman Years this leads to the conception of an open work of art. Using detailed textual analysis, Christian Mittermüller reconstructs a hitherto scarcely recognised connection between scepticism about language and poetic theory, and in so doing opens up a new avenue for approaching Goethes late works. more...
Philipp von Zesenby Dieter Martin; Maximilian Bergengruen
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 133.00The volume contains the papers given at a conference held in Basle in Autumn 2006 on the writer Philipp von Zesen (1619-1689). The publication ? the first collected volume devoted to this author for 35 years ? displays the whole breadth of Zesen's work: Apart from his lyric poetry and novels, the papers discuss his linguistic and poetological innovations together with his contributions to nature philosophy, mythology, historiology and politics. more...









