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Barock-Humanismus: Krisen-Dichtung
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 168.00These volumes provide a comprehensive culture-historical survey of all the important German-speaking humanist poets of the 17th century. Each author is given a chapter to himself, comprising references to research, reception, and biography, as well as an overview of sacred and profane poetry, complete with analyses of representative works. Volume IV/1... more...
Barock-Humanismus: Liebeslyrik
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 154.00These volumes provide a comprehensive culture-historical survey of all the important German-speaking humanist poets of the 17th century. Each author is given a chapter to himself, comprising references to research, reception, and biography, as well as an overview of sacred and profane poetry, complete with analyses of representative works. Volume IV/1... more...
Wissen in Literatur im 19. Jahrhundert
De Gruyter 2002; US$ 147.00The theme of this volume, 'knowledge in literature', refers not to the way in which literature communicates cultural phenomena, events, and norms regulating or reflecting everyday action and behaviour. Instead, it focuses on the 'new knowledge' about nature and the human animal produced (or rejected) in individual branches of science and learning since... more...
Sturm und Drang: Göttinger Hain und Grenzgänger
De Gruyter 2002; US$ 168.00The verse of the young Goethe has generally been taken as paradigmatic for the poetry of the Sturm und Drang period. This has led to almost total neglect of the remarkable poetry by Lavater and Herder, Lenz and Stolberg, Karschin and Voss, Schubart's religious verse, and the poetical works of the young Schiller. The present volumes cast a new light... more...
Raptors
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2011; US$ 20.95With tragicomic bravado and psychological insight, this collection paints a turbulent portrait of a father and his family, creating a poetic sequence that has the scope of a novel and stretches the sense of what is possible in poetry. Each poem is presented as an improvisation on the theme of the father, forming a picture of a family held hostage... more...
A Literary History of the Low Countries
Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd 2013; US$ 58.33What was the written culture behind visual artists like Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Rubens? What made the historical novel in nineteenth-century Flanders so different from its counterpart in Holland? What was the literary impact of the huge colonial empires run by the Netherlands and Belgium? What role did Latin, French, and Frisian play in the literary... more...
De fiere nachtegaal
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 51.75Covers the various facets of Dutch medieval music until the year 1600 more...
La traduction de la poésie allemande en français dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 98.00This study analyses the general significance of translation in the literary life of an epoch, a country and a language, and engages in particular with the status of German lyric poetry in French literature in the first half of the 19th century. In the wider context of a study of the problem of translation, the author enquires into the poetical affinity... more...









