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  • 1: Text März 1780 - Januar 1781by Hans-Peter Nowitzki; Heinz-Günther Nesselrath

    De Gruyter 2012; US$ 349.00

    None of Wieland?s poems was more enthusiastically celebrated by his contemporaries than his verse poem Oberon, A Poem in Fourteen Songs, a work situated between the worlds of romance and the classical epic. The oft-translated epic, frequently dramatized and set to music, became part of the canon of required school readings in the 19th century. Throughout... more...

  • Wiederanfang und Ernüchterung in der Nachkriegszeitby Frank Bernstein; Hartmut Leppin

    Wallstein Verlag 2013; US$ 11.00

    Hauptbeschreibung In Leben und Oeuvre des Althistorikers Hermann Strasburger (1909-1985) spiegeln sich Deutsche Geschichte und Wissenschaftsgeschichte in besonders eindringlicher Weise.1931 in Frankfurt am Main promoviert, wurde Strasburger 1936 als sogenanntem Vierteljuden die Habilitation versagt. Gleichwohl in die Wehrmacht eingezogen, kehrte... more...

  • 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...

  • Biblische Dramenby Monika Lemmel

    De Gruyter 2005; US$ 307.00

    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... more...

  • Grenzen des Ichby Stefan Keppler

    De Gruyter 2006; US$ 168.00

    This study uses a remarkable continuity of problems in Goethe?s narrative work to define the ambiguous position he takes up in the broad spectrum of subject discourses. It combines the analytical dimensions of poetology with those of the history of ideas and reveals Goethe?s doubts about the individual as a place for the creation of coherence and sense. 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...

  • Band 1: Textby Klaus Manger

    De Gruyter 2008; US$ 349.00

    Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813) is one of the most important authors of the Rococo and the Enlightenment. Wieland is regarded as the founder of the Bildungsroman, as well as, the precursor of the Weimar Classic. Wieland earned great merit as an editor and translator. A critical edition of his extensive complete oeuvre, which is offered here in... more...

  • Band 1: Textby Hans-Peter Nowitzki

    De Gruyter 2008; US$ 349.00

    Der vorliegene Band enthält die schriftstellerische Bilanz aus Wielands höchst produktiver Zeit als Professor der Erfurter Universität. Seine Beschäftigung mit den kulturkritischen Ansätzen von Rousseau und Iselin verarbeitet er in essayistischen Prosawerken, die seine philosophischen Reflexionen in höchst eleganten Formen aufbereitet zeigen. Mit den... more...

  • 'ihrem Originale nachzudenken'by Helmut Berthold

    De Gruyter 2008; US$ 91.00

    Although Lessing translated from the major European languages, and translation became a subject of literary criticism in the 18th century for the first time, Lessing?s role in this has seldom been examined. The present volume contains papers on Lessing?s theory and practice of translation, on his translations of individual authors, and on his contribution... more...