Author : Vera B. Profit
Publisher : Berne ; Las Vegas : P. Lang
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
This study is a work in two distinct parts. The first, detailed interpretations of eight late Goll poems, attempts to answer a single question: knowing he is about to die, how does a man express his reaction to the physiological and psychological metamorphosis, which he experiences? The second part consists of a comprehensive and annotated bibliography of works by and about Iwan Goll.
Author : Vera B. Profit
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,41 MB
Release : 1971
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Matthias Konzett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3105 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135941297
Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.
Author : Margaret A. Parmée
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 1981
Category : German language
ISBN :
Author : Margaret Sönser Breen
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9042016787
Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity brings together fifteen essays, versions of which were presented at the Fifth International Conference on Evil and Wickedness, held in Prague in 2004. The volume examines evil and wickedness from a variety of disciplines, including criminology, cultural studies, gender studies, law, literature, peace studies, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. In so doing Minding Evil keeps in play the doubled meaning of its title: on the one hand, to tend to evil, that is, to oversee, cultivate, and deploy it; on the other hand, to be bothered by evil and so, in learning to identify or recognise it, to try to understand its workings and thus contain or control it and, perhaps, repair or undo it. While the essays taken together work to show the difficulty and at times the travesty of not being able to distinguish between the two meanings, it is this second meaning that remains key. What are the individual and collective responsibilities entailed in minding - being troubled by - evil? This is the central question of this volume.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
This English verse translation of Goethe's West-Eastern Divan aims to give English-readers a fair indication of the themes, quality and flavour of Goethe's major cycle of lyric poetry. As far as possible it remains faithful to Goethe's metrical and rhyming patterns. The Divan's wealth of earnest depth and passion is conveyed with an often casual simplicity of vocabulary and expression. It moves through changing moods from which wit and grace and good humour are never long absent when the mind is, as in these poems, at play and in command. Goethe described this complexity as «Unconditional submission to the unfathomable will of God, serene conspectus of the activities of this earth, mobile and always in circles and spirals, love, inclination hovering between two worlds, all the real purified, dissolving in symbol». The English translation seeks to keep to the poetic tones in Goethe's seemingly effortless words.
Author : Robert K. Shirer
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 13,20 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
The most ambitious novels of Christa Wolf and Uwe Johnson, Kindheitsmuster and Jahrestage, have remarkable similarities. In both novels a woman narrator seeks to recall her childhood, spent in the Germany of the Third Reich, in the hope of finding some connection between patterns of behavior developed there and her own troubled self. Neither narrator finds a traditional first-person narration possible, and each develops a distinctive and unusual narrative voice. The present study provides a detailed comparative reading of the two novels and investigates the problem of a narrator/protagonist alienated from herself by time, trauma, and ideology.
Author : Karen Drabek Vogt
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
This study examines the concept of inspiration in Thomas Mann's major novels and the redemptive possibilities of the artist vis-a-vis his society. Mann's high moral seriousness is revealed in his belief that the artist embodies the society's concealed illness and through his art provides the possibility of a healing catharsis.
Author : Bonnie A. Beckett
Publisher : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
The study examines in detail the reception accorded to the works of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda in the GDR. The initial phase of the transmission process took place in the late 1930s and early 1940s when Neruda established contact with leftwing exiles during the Spanish Civil War, subsequently in Mexico City, and in occupied Germany after World War II. The core chapters correlate the changing cultural and political situation in the GDR with the introduction and critical adumbration of Neruda's output. A separate chapter deals with the stage productions of his works, and the conclusion traces briefly the reception of Neruda's works in the Federal Republic of Germany, highlighting the initial contrast and recent convergence of Marxist and non-Marxist criticism of Neruda.
Author : Rebecca E. Schrader
Publisher : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Wieland's Agathon has long been considered an impressive stylistic achievement, and much scholarly attention has been devoted to its language. However, the concept of style underlying such commentaries has often been ill-defined, the analytical procedures impressionistic, and the linguistic description inexact and incomplete. This study develops, in interaction with the literary text itself, a methodology of stylistic analysis, based on the descriptive techniques of modern linguistics and on the criteria for formal investigation proposed in recent discussions of poetics.
