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Transformations of the German Novel
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the German literary establishment considered the novel the contemptible entertainment of the uneducated. By the end of the century, the novel had eclipsed the epic poem as the most appropriate genre for depicting humankind and its preoccupations. The story of the novel's emergence as a respected and productive artistic genre is intimately bound up with the vicissitudes of the most popular of all German baroque works, Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's (1621/22-1676) Der abentheurliche Simplicissimus: Teutsch (1668/69). Between 1756 and 1785, Simplicissimus quietly found its way into bookshops three times in radically different forms, in ad...
A Space of Anxiety
A Space of Anxietyengages with a body of German-Jewish literature that, from the beginning of the century onwards, explores notions of identity and kinship in the context of migration, exile and persecution. The study offers an engaging analysis of how Freud, Kafka, Roth, Drach and Hilsenrath employ, to varying degrees, the travel paradigm to question those borders and boundaries that define the space between the self and the other. A Space of Anxietyargues that from Freud to Hilsenrath, German-Jewish literature emerges from an ambivalent space of enunciation which challenges the great narrative of an historical identity authenticated by an originary past. Inspired by postcolonial and psycho...
The Continuities of German History
This book opens the debate about German history in the long term – about how ideas and political forms are traceable across what historians have taken to be the sharp breaks of German history. Smith argues that current historiography has become ever more focused on the twentieth century, and on twentieth-century explanations for the catastrophes at the center of German history. Against conventional wisdom, he considers continuities - nation and nationalism, religion and religious exclusion, racism and violence - that are the center of the German historical experience and that have long histories. Smith explores these deep continuities in novel ways, emphasizing their importance, while arguing that Germany was not on a special path to destruction. The result is a series of innovative reflections on the crystallization of nationalist ideology, on patterns of anti-Semitism, and on how the nineteenth-century vocabulary of race structured the twentieth-century genocidal imagination.
A Companion to the Works of Grimmelshausen
Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (ca. 1621-1676) is the most significant (and still readable) author of seventeenth-century German novels. His Abenteuerlicher Simplicius Simplicissimus remains the one German novel of its time that has attained the stature of "world literature": its unique mix of violent action and solitary reflection, its superlative humor, its realistic portrayal of a peasant turned soldier turned hermit has made it the longest-running bestseller in German literature. Read by students and scholars in comparative literature, history, and German, and by those interested in the development of the picaresque novel in Europe, the work and its "Continuations" have increa...
Historical Dictionary of German Literature to 1945
The history of this period in German literature is told through a detailed chronology, an introductory essay, a comprehensive bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on poetry, novels, historical narrative, philosophical musings, drama, and the exceptional writers who emerged and shaped German literature over the centuries.
Die Grimmelshausen-Rezeption in Der Fiktionalen Literatur Der Deutschen Romantik
Die Untersuchung erfaßt vollständig die Rezeption von Episoden, Gestalten und Motiven aus den simplicianischen und anderen satirisch-pikaresken Werken Grimmelshausens in der fiktionalen Literatur (Belletristik, Textsammlungen) der deutschen Romantik. In der Einleitung werden Thema, Grundlage und Aufgabe der Arbeit definiert. In Kap. I wird dargelegt, warum sich gerade in der Periode der Romantik eine breite Grimmelshausen-Rezeption entfalten konnte. Es wird nachgewiesen, daß die romantische Beschäftigung mit diesem Schriftsteller Teil einer universellen und progressiven Kulturrezeption war (Versuch einer neuen Bestimmung des Begriffs Romantik). In Kap. II wird die Überlieferung von Grim...
Simpliciana
Der neue Band des Jahrbuches Simpliciana bringt neue Forschungen zu Grimmelshausens Aneignung und Bewertung des Wissens seiner Zeit aus Magie, Astrologie/Astronomie, Arzneimittelkunde, Meteorologie, Militärwissenschaft, Technik, Ökonomie, politischer Wissenschaft, Pädagogik, Philosophie und Theologie. Weitere Forschungsbeiträge betreffen Grimmelshausens Courasche, seinen Bärenhäuter, Martin Walsers Rezeption der alten Astrologie (Tod eines Kritikers) und Martin Opitz im Stammbucheintrag. Ein umfangreicher Besprechungsteil informiert über die neuesten Forschungen zu Grimmelshausen und seiner Zeit.
Brinkman's catalogus van boeken en tijdschriften
With 1901/1910-1956/1960 Repertoium is bound: Brinkman's Titel-catalohus van de gedurende 1901/1910-1956/1960 (Title varies slightly).
Korrespondenzen und Transformationen
Although Adelbert von Chamisso created world literature with his Peter Schlemihl narrative and is a canonised author in literary studies, many parts of his prolific work are still under-researched. As yet little of his estate, which has been in the possession of the Berlin State Library since 1937, has been evaluated. The contributions to this anthology can be seen as an endeavour to give a new impetus to Chamisso research. Written from the perspectives of literary studies, linguistics, musicologists and scientific history, the contributors seek to reveal hitherto neglected aspects of Chamisso's multifaceted work as an ethnologist and zoologist, travel writer and poet, editor and correspondent. They focus on Chamisso's networking with the literary and scientific communities of his time and on the broad field of intertextual, intermedial and intercultural references in his texts.
