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This 1967 volume honouring Professor George S. Lane features eight of his articles on aspects of Tocharian that made him a supreme authority in his field. The essays that follow by Cowgill, Eliason, Haas, Hahn, Hamp, Lehmann, Reitz, Robinson, Watkins, and Widding range from studies of Old Norse and Old English to Hittite.

Shows how Storm's Novellen are made purposeful by the operations of a fictional intelligence, haunted by the fear of passing time. The author challenges the traditional belief that Storm's narratives are products of a sentimental mind.

Analyses the influence of the merchant class on what Leo Balet termed the Verburgerlichung (the'becoming middle-class') of German literature during the eighteenth century. John Van Cleve describes the origins and development of the class and examines its successive images in works by Haller, Schnabel, Schlegel, Gellert, Lessing, and others.

Though not a survey of Bertolt Brecht's poetry, this book covers the major periods in his work and most of its major themes as well. Each of the seven chapters deals with a segment from Brecht's considerably poetic opus.

Reassesses the poetry of Paul Fleming (1609-1640) in the context of its own literary, historical, and social background. The four chapters focus initially on generic and historical context. The study of selected texts leads to more general considerations of the sources and significance of certain major themes.

Critics have long regarded Rilke's Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge as the first novel in the German language to express in both form and content the artistic direction of the twentieth century. This volume provides the reader with insight into the figures and events referenced in Rilke's novel.

This study seeks to alter our understanding of Keller's realism by problematizing the act of reading within fiction. The story of reading in Keller's fiction is a self-conscious meditation on the schism between life and its literary representation - and it emphasizes the incapacity of that representation to influence the life it is based on.

Far from being a forerunner of Weimar Classicism or an addendum to the Enlightenment, the Sturm und Drang is best seen as part of an autonomous culture of impatience-as literature in which Germans, frustrated with their fragmented land, simulated a sense of power and effectiveness that political realities did not afford.

Critics have called Else Lasker-Schuler the greatest of all German women poets and one of the finest Jewish poets. This selection of translations by Robert Newton, supplemented by a biographical and critical introduction and a selected bibliography, was the first substantial presentation of her works in English at its original publication in 1982.

The first comprehensive study of the dramas of Nicodemus Frischlin (1547-1590), one of the most versatile and complex playwrights of early modern Germany. Frischlin's broad range encompassed biblical, confessional, and historical drama, all of which expressed bold social and political criticism.

Jill Kowalik reevaluates J.J. Breitinger's Critische Dichtkunst (1740) with regard to a heretofore neglected aspect of aesthetics in the early eighteenth century, namely how poesis and historiography could increasingly come to resemble each other in their assumptions, purposes, and methods of representation.

In this volume Stephen Kaplowitt scrutinizes the entire lyric production of Minnesanger from Der von Kurenberg to Walther von der Vogelweide, identifying and analysing every example of the motif. He concludes that, although the motif is widespread, its significance has been considerably exaggerated.

Discusses early modern literature in central Europe, focusing on connections between humanism and scientific thought; the relationship of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century literature to ancient and Renaissance traditions; the social and political context of early modern writing; and poets' self-consciousness about their work.

Philosophers, theologians, and literary historians discuss important aspects of Nietzsche's attack on Judaism and Christianity. The book contains studies of his view of biblical figures, Luther and Pascal as well as comparisons of his thought with that of Spinoza, Lessing, Heine, and Kierkegaard.

In this closely argued and admirably lucid study of the late medieval didactic epic Der Ring, Christa Wolf Cross analyses the dynamics of the narrator-reader relationship. Cross's investigation leads her to propound new answers to a number of questions that have long perplexed Wittenweiler scholars.

This valuable collection of eight original and penetrating essays by American scholars honours the centenary of the Austrian dramatist's birth. The contributors attend to themes from depictions of death to the influence of Nietzsche on Schnitzler's work and his reception in France.

An imperishable gem of German literature, Kleist's The Broken Pitcher is pure comedy. The author's handling of the theme - the judge as culprit - shows supreme mastery. This translation by Bayard Morgan, originally published in 1961, is faithful in form.

Examines the interplay of history, textuality, dramaturgy, and politics in the school dramas of Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635-1683). The plays are based on well-known episodes from classical Roman history and were staged in Breslau by students at two all-male humanistic gymnasia.

Each of the essays in this study of Der Nachsommer focuses on overlooked details of the novel. As all the phenomena presented are oriented toward fulfillment of their highest potential, the novel emerges as a powerful assertion of the intent to achieve classical form in all things despite the ever-present threat of dissolution and chaos.

Originally published in 1966, A.E. Zucker presented the first modern biography of General de Kalb, who held the rank of major general in the Continental Army and died at the Battle of Camden. Through the use of previously unpublished materials, Zucker's biography challenged previous views of de Kalb and depicts his relationship with Lafayette.

Originally published in 1955, this volume provides English translations of one hundred of Goethe's poems divided into nine periods. The biographical introduction traces Goethe's development as seen in his poems and an appendix gives information on musical settings to the poems.

Provides a critical study of all seven of Hoffmann's Kunstmarchen. Vitt-Maucher's detailed individual analyses focus on Hoffmann's use of structural, stylistic, and linguistic devices to create poetic deviations from the norms of reality.

Presents twenty-four essays on the many-sided topic of German exile literature during and after Hitler's Third Reich. Leading American and European specialists in the field are contributors to the volume, which discusses the work of Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Hermann Broch and Karl Wolfskehl among others.

Contains Lessing's most explicit observations on the distinction between poetry and prose as well as a unique proposal for emending Aristotle's interpretation of the dramatic method. Lessing significantly modifies Abbe Dubos' doctrine by ideas derived from Alexander Baumgarten, Moses Mendelssohn, and Edmund Burke.

These previously published essays discuss Nietzsche's influence on Arthur Schnitzler, Carl Sternheim, Georg Kaiser, Robert Musil, and Hermann Hesse. As a Festschrift, it also contains a tribute to Herbert W. Reichert and a bibliography of his writings.

Originally published in 1949, this volume contains an analysis of the concepts of Natur and Freiheit and their influence on Keller's ideas in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, and politics, supported by pertinent passages from Keller's work.

A collection of thirteen essays by comparatists and Germanists published in celebration of the scholar and poet Herman Salinger. The essays range from Greek antiquity to the twentieth century - from the Sophoclean Electra to Rilke.

Relying on an edition of Novalis' notebooks which includes much of the author's scientific and philosophical musings, Neubauer's study evaluates Novalis' outline for a creative science and philosophical background of the eighteenth century.

These essays represent the push to provide interdisciplinary Brecht research to English-speaking audiences following his death in 1956 and offer novel readings of his works indicative of the major literary questions of the time. The essays explore both Brecht's theoretical approach and political thought.

For eighteenth century readers, the contents of a novel were often perceived as part of reality. This book is concerned both with the relevant German, French, and English criticism of the novel and the use of literature as a frame of reference in the writings of the day. It also analyses novels whose heroes were profoundly influenced by literature.