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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...
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...
Daniel Caspar Von Lohenstein - Historisch-Kritische Ausgabeby Lothar Mundt
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2005; US$ 389.20Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635-1683) is one of the most significant German Baroque writers. He was a lawyer, envoy and Imperial Councillor who wrote numerous elaborate tragedies, together with his main work, the large-scale yet unfinished novel Arminius, which is regarded as a key novel on the social and political situation in the German Empire after the Thirty Years' War. The Berlin Project is the first historical complete commentary. Apart from the literary works, it contains letters and biographical documents, which allow a more profound understanding of the author, his time and his works. The edition is scheduled tocontain 25 volumes, divided into six sections: 1. Lyric poetry, 2. dramas, 3. Arminius, 4. shorter prose works, 5. translations,... more...
Simon Dach (1605?1659)by Axel E. Walter
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 248.00The papers in this volume deal with central aspects of Simon Dach?s complete poetic works. One focus is on intensive textual interpretations, which take up topical research issues and apply their methodology to selected texts by Dach. In the process, particular attention is paid to Dach?s Modern Latin poetry, which has hitherto been neglected by research. This volume opens up many texts for research for the first time. Dach?s pro-loco disputation, the invitation to his inaugural lecture and numerous poems in German and Latin are edited with commentaries. A second focus is on aspects of the history of the aftermath and reception of his works. This volume provides the most comprehensive academic study of Simon Dach yet published, and is the first... 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...
Lohenstein, Daniel Casper von - Sämtliche Werkeby Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein; Lothar Mundt; Wolfgang Neuber
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 626.00The text volume contains Lohenstein's two earliest tragedies - Ibrahim (Bassa) (1653), his first dramatic work, in which he treats material from 16th century Turkish history, and Cleopatra both in its original version (1661) and its extended version of 1680. Lohenstein's learned notes on both versions of Cleopatra are provided with bibliographical references and translations of foreign-language quotations to make them fully accessible to the modern reader. The volume of commentary not only contains textual notes on all three dramas, but also includes a bio-bibliographical index of all the authors quoted in the notes on the two versions of Cleopatra. more...
Lohenstein, Daniel Casper von - Sämtliche Werkeby Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein; Lothar Mundt; Wolfgang Neuber
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 323.00The text volume contains Lohenstein's two earliest tragedies - Ibrahim (Bassa) (1653), his first dramatic work, in which he treats material from 16th century Turkish history, and Cleopatra both in its original version (1661) and its extended version of 1680. Lohenstein's learned notes on both versions of Cleopatra are provided with bibliographical references and translations of foreign-language quotations to make them fully accessible to the modern reader. The volume of commentary not only contains textual notes on all three dramas, but also includes a bio-bibliographical index of all the authors quoted in the notes on the two versions of Cleopatra. more...
Innenräume in der Literatur des deutschen Mittelaltersby Annette Volfing; Almut Suerbaum; Hans-Jochen Schiewer; Burkhard Hasebrink
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 140.00The focus on inner space unites two topical areas of cultural anthropology: space as a structural paradigm, and the focal differentiation between the categories of ?inner? and ?outer?. The literature of medieval Germany, in staging such interior space in a variety of ways, poses questions about difference, liminality, and transgression, and thus allows abstract concepts and processes to be articulated: in a culture otherwise dominated by that which is present and visible, inner space conveys notions of psychological, cosmological or textual order. more...
Texte zum Sprechen bringenby Christiane Ackermann; Ulrich Barton; Anne Auditor; Susanne Borgards
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 182.00This Festschrift on the occasion of Paul Sappler's 70th birthday contains over 30 papers from both younger colleagues and those of long standing. The main emphases in the volume are on Paul Sappler's own areas of interest - courtly lyric, courtly, heroic and minor epics, medieval and early modern drama, text editions and commentaries, lexicography. Individual chapters go beyond the narrower subject boundaries to encompass art history and modern literature. more...
Wunder, Spott und Prophetieby Ruth Bernuth
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 112.00This study is devoted to the hitherto largely disregarded natural fools, who form part of the broad spectrum of fools in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age. Using the farcical novel Histories of Claus Fool, which was widely read in the 16th and 17th centuries, it examines the notion of natural foolishness and its use by the Protestant writer Wolfgang Büttner. The study develops the functions performed by natural fools in the cultural context of the age. It explicates why these fools were ridiculed while at the same time being regarded as marvels, examples and soothsayers. more...









