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  • A Companion to Middle High German literature to the 14th centuryby F.G. Gentry

    BRILL 2002; US$ 237.00

    A 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$ 26.00

    This 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...

  • Friedrich G. Klopstock - Werke Und Briefeby Monika Lemmel

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2005; US$ 267.30

    This volume contains Klopstock's biblical dramas "Der Tod Adams" (The Death of Adam), "Salomo" and "David" from the years 1757, 1764 and 1772 respectively. The critical apparatus includes all extant evidence on the creation and printing of the works, together with the most important accounts of their effects. The Appendix includes an explanatory index of the biblical persons and places. more...

  • Reading Heinrich Heineby Anthony Phelan

    Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 34.00

    The most comprehensive study of the nineteenth-century German poet to be published in English for many years. more...

  • Romantic Vision, Ethical Contextby Geza von Molnar; Jochen Schulte-Sasse

    University of Minnesota Press 1987; US$ 67.50

    Exploring 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$ 132.30

    The 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$ 118.80

    This 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...

  • Konfliktverläufeby Ursula Kundert

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2006; US$ 137.20

    The portrayal of conflicts transmits norms governing the mutual behaviour of men and women. This critical literary study identifies patterns of conflictual processes in such disparate 17th century texts as pastoral poems and regional regulations. It shows how the portrayal of conflicts gives readers an impression of social commitment. more...

  • Friedrich Schlegel’s Lucinde and the Fragmentsby Peter Firchow

    University of Minnesota Press 1971; US$ 67.50

    For the last century and a half, Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829) has enjoyed a reputation for being the critical grey eminence behind the coming to power of the Romantic Movement. It was Schlegel, in his three series of aphoristic fragments (Lyceum, Athena more...

  • Autobiography of Goetheby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; John Oxenford

    The Floating Press 1848; US$ 8.99

    In 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...