Sechs Stuecke Nach Stuecken

Margo Light Bosker

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 55
• Peter Hacks - einer der erfolgreichsten DDR-Schriftsteller - hat eine Vorliebe für die Bearbeitung. Diese Studie bespricht sechs seiner Bearbeitungen ... Lees meer

Kritik Des Kritikers

Irene Compton

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 89
• Der Diskurs über Bölls Ansichten (1963) liess bis jetzt weitgehend die Funktion der Kleistschen Marionette unberücksichtigt. Diese Studie untersucht d... Lees meer

Die Romane Hugo Loetschers Im Spannungsfeld Von Fremde Und Vertrautheit

Romey Sabalius

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 72
• Hugo Loetscher (*1929) ist einer der prominentesten und einflußreichsten deutschsprachigen Schweizer Autoren der Generation nach Max Frisch und Friedr... Lees meer

Winter Facets

Andrea Dortmann

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 104
• Based on a variety of close readings, this book analyzes the use of ice and snow motifs in selected literary, scientific, and philosophical texts by a... Lees meer

Beyond Nihilism

Susan Ray

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 96
• The ideas underlying Benn's Ausdruckswelt not only anticipate and parallel many of the assumptions now current in recent trends in literary criticism;... Lees meer

Hans Friedrich Blunck

W Scott Hoerle

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 97
• Which literary traditions helped carry the Nazis to power? In which parts of Germany were these traditions strongest? This study answers these questio... Lees meer

German Realism in the United States

Inga E Mullen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 6
• Fontane, Keller, Meyer, Raabe and Storm have received considerable critical attention from English-speaking scholars during the last two decades, howe... Lees meer

The Legends of Gertrud Von Le Fort

Margaret K DeVinney

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 27
• This study of the legends of Gertrud von Le Fort investigates her reputation among literary critics as well as her application of a singular personal ... Lees meer

Self and Existence

Brigitta O'Regan

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 76
• J.M.R. Lenz (1751-1792) was dismissed as nothing more than a passing meteor on the German literary scene by an early critic. Today, his plays are part... Lees meer

Science, Satire and Wit

Ralph W Büchler

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 41
• This book attempts a critical assessment of the eighteenth-century German essay utilizing the journal essays of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg as a parad... Lees meer

Bertolt Brecht's Striving for Reason, Even in Music

Michael John T Gilbert

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 3
• Not long after Bertolt Brecht's death in 1956, his musical collaborator of many years, Hanns Eisler, characterized Brecht's attitude toward music with... Lees meer

Pathways to Paul Celan

Bianca Rosenthal

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 73
• The reviews discussed in this volume about Paul Celan, arguably the most important German-language poet of the last fifty years, reflect the wide spec... Lees meer

Bonaventura's «Nachtwachen»

Kathy Brzovic

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 36
• This book argues that Bonaventura's Nachtwachen presents us with richly complex and profound satirical treatment of eighteenth-century German society,... Lees meer

The Demise of the Author

Roger F Cook

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 52
• This book examines how the concept of the autonomous writer evolved in German culture. Its scope includes various forms of representation that both en... Lees meer

Reading Rilke's Orphic Identity

Erika M Nelson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 101
• This study of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) examines the poet's understanding of the malleable nature of identity, while addressing the question of R... Lees meer

Lion Feuchtwanger's «Erfolg»

Judith Wessler

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 11
• Lion Feuchtwanger deals with the complexities of the Großstadt and modern society in his novel Erfolg. He portrays the post-World War I problems in Ge... Lees meer

The Manipulation of Reality in Works by Heinrich Von Kleist

Robert E Glenny

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 13
• Disguising and unveiling, only to disguise again, Heinrich von Kleist creates characters whose definition of self and of others depends on their own a... Lees meer

Der Junge Goethe in Der Tradition Des Petrarkismus

Kevin G Kennedy

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 48
• Goethe wird im Allgemeinen als Sänger der glücklichen Liebe gefeiert. Ziel dieser Studie ist es, diese einseitige Auffassung der Literaturkritik zu be... Lees meer

Franz Jung: Leben Und Werk Eines Rebellen

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 23
• Franz Jung (1888-1963) ist einer der bedeutendsten Zeugen unseres Jahrhunderts. Sein schillernder Charakter verweigert sich jeder ideologischen Festle... Lees meer

Re-Viewing Kleist

Mary Rhiel

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 44
• This study examines through textual and contextual analysis how the texts and the biography of Heinrich von Kleist have been appropriated in three Wes... Lees meer

The Theater of Franz Xaver Kroetz

Ingeborg C Walther

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 40
• This fascinating study explores the critical «Volksstücke» of Franz Xaver Kroetz as they confront the crisis of contemporary West German theater in re... Lees meer

Echoes in the Text

Jean H Leventhal

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 64
• Literature's role in developing a musical canon emerges from this study of German fiction between 1880 and 1987. It provides a close analysis of the v... Lees meer

The Gift of Life

Bonnie Glass-Coffin

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature
• In this uniquely personal account of the lives and healing arts of female shamans in northern Peru, the author alternates diaristic writings about her... Lees meer

From the Home Fires to the Battlefield

Jean Wotschke

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Modern German Literature | nr. 85
• Literary criticism considers the father-son conflict to be one of the standard themes of German Expressionist drama. Closer examination reveals, howev... Lees meer