Klaus L. Berghahn

Reinhold Grimm

Utopian Vision, Technological Innovation, and Poetic Imagination

Episches Theater

Irmgard Hunt

This collection features a cogent introduction and includes representative poems by some 60 modern poets, including Ingeborg Bachmann, Gottfried Benn, Berthold Brecht, Paul Celan, Gnnter Eich, Gnnter Grass, Georg Heym, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Franz Kafka, Gnnter Kunert, Gertrud Kolmar, Friederike Mayr÷cker, Rainer Maria Rilke, Nelly Sachs, and many others.

German 20th Century Poetry

die farbliche Chiffre in der Dichtung

Gottfried Benn

Jost Hermand

Ranging from Hellenistic pastoral to the contemporary counterculture activities of the "Greens," the essays in this volume underscore the complexity of simplicity. Whether the simple life is located in a culture's past or in its future, in a secluded corner or beyond society's boundaries, it remains a fascinating subject for discussion.

Images of the Simple Life

From the Greeks to the Greens

Rolf Kieser

Die allgemein einsetzende Wedekind-Renaissance im Vorfeld der von der Editions- und Forschungsstelle Frank Wedekind (Darmstadt) ausgehenden Kritischen Gesamtausgabe macht eine Überprüfung der neuesten Wedekind-Forschung notwendig. Dabei stellt sich heraus, dass die Forschungsergebnisse im angelsächsischen Raum, die über einen Fünftel der Gesamtforschung ausmachen, besonders eigenwillige und stimulierende Beiträge liefern. Diese anhand von zehn Originalaufsätzen vorzustellen, ist die Absicht der Herausgeber.

Yearbook 1991

Frank Wedekind

Eight contributions, expanded and revised, from the U. of Wisconsin Dept. of German's Seventeenth Wisconsin Workshop (on title) held in October 1986. The papers extend from historical surveys and general topologies to specifically modern trends and theories. More than three years from workshop to publication, and no index. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Problems of Lyric Poetry

From Ode to Anthem

Jahrbuch für deutsche Gegenwartsliteratur

Basis

Brechts "Dreigroschenoper" in Nigeria und der Türkei

Die Erweiterung des Kontinents

The nine studies contained in this volume are devoted to German and comparative literature and to cultural history and the history of ideas. They are centered, on the one hand, upon the oeuvre and influence of Friedrich Nietzsche and, on the other, upon the work of Bertolt Brecht. Each author is discussed in the context of world literature, with special emphasis on his relationship to England and the United States. Additional aspects include problems of translation and reception as well as theory and Imagologie, plus philosophical and theological questions.

Studies in German and Comparative Literature

Echo and Disguise

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht und die Weltliteratur

Caroline Molina y Vedia

Long in preparation and in considerable demand, here are the essential poems and prose of one of the giants of 20th century world literature. Following an authoritative introduction by Reinhold Grimm, the volume includes German and English poems on facing pages.

Irmgard Elsner Hunt

Die Vorstellung von unabhängigen, gleichsam verdinglichten 'Nationalliteraturen' ist ein Mythos des 19. Jahrhunderts: selbst der Begriff einer 'europäischen Literatur' bedarf allmählich schon der Erweiterung. Die hier gesammelten fünfzehn Beiträge aus drei Jahrzehnten sind von dieser Überzeugung getragen. Sie gelten, wie unterschiedlich auch immer, dem wahrhaft weiten Feld der Verbindungen, Entsprechungen und Wechselwirkungen zwischen den Dichtern und den Werken, den Gattungen, Schulen, Epochen, ja schöpferischen Launen über alle sprachlichen und politischen Grenzen hinweg. Behandelt werden Texte bzw. übergreifende Themen vor allem aus der deutschen, englischen und französischen Literatur, doch daneben auch bereits Beziehungen zur Türkei und zu Thailand.

Versuche zur europäischen Literatur

This multidisciplinary collection of readings offers suggestive new interpretations of Richard Wagner's ideological position in German history. The issues discussed range from the biographical--the reasons for Wagner's travels, his spotted political life--to the aesthetic and ideological, regarding his re-creation of medieval Nuremberg, his representations of gender and nationality, his vocal iconography, his anti-Semitism, and his vegetarianarguments, and, finally, his musical heirs. The essays are written by Tamara S. Evans, Edward R. Haymes, Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Peter Morris-Keitel, Alexa Larson-Thorisch, Audrius Dundzila, Marc A. Weiner, Jost Hermand, Frank Trommler, and Hans Rudolf Vaget. Avoiding journalistic or iconoclastic approaches to Wagner, these writers depart from the usual uncritical admiration of earlier scholars to develop a stimulating and ultimately cohesive collection of new perspectives.

Re-reading Wagner

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the contributors to this volume consider the reactions of German writers, artists and intellectuals to each of these wars. In Germany, the first war evoked a broad base of nationalist feeling that touched even those individuals most remembered today for their stances of opposition during the second war. These essays note the changes or intensifications of earlier positions among the German cultural community.

Reinhold Grimm

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