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Nibelungische Intertextualität
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 168.00This study explores the very topical subject of intergenerational relationships in four heroic epics ("Kudrun" "The Great Rose Garden", "Biterolf and Dietleib", "Hürnen Seyfrid"), which make reference to the Nibelungenlied [Song of the Nibelungs] written around 1200, in particular to the figure of Kriemhild. The analysis covers aspects of family history... more...
The Look of Things
The University of North Carolina Press 2003; US$ 73.50Examining the relationship between German poetry, philosophy, and visual media around 1900, Carsten Strathausen argues that the poetic works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Stephan George focused on the visible gestalt of language as a means of competing aesthetically with the increasing popularity and "reality effect" of photography... more...
Komische Lyrik ? Lyrische Komik
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 84.00The study refutes the prejudice that comic poems are inferior examples of the serious genre of lyric poetry. The comic deformations are actually produced by the very compression of the form and content of the serious poem; they come about as the result of the norms of the genre and exaggerations of fashions, styles and world-views, and in addition... more...
A Family Occupation
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 34.00First English-language introduction to a strangely popular theme in contemporary Dutch literature. more...
Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 152.00The humorous side of Dutch culture of the seventeenth century is obscured by a change that took place around 1670. Religious treatises and books of manners warning against laughter contributed to a new image, that of the humourless, Calvinist Dutch. Mainly based on a manuscript with some two thousand jokes, the lost laughter of the Golden Age is reconstructed... more...




