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Ardent Complaints and Equivocal Piety treats three sets of medieval German crusade poems, in most of which the crusades are pictured as a source of distress, disenchantment, or even annoyance. The first group portrays the crusader as he tries to overcome...

Up-to-date criticism and commentary on the greatest of the German courtly epics. Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival expands and transforms the Arthurian tradition into a grand depiction of the medieval cosmos around 1200. Standing between clerical and...

In the wake of the French Revolution, history was no longer imagined as a cyclical process in which the succession of ruling dynasties was as predictable as the change in the seasons. Contemporaries wrestled with the meaning of this historical rupture,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781987730456Author Jay Julian RoselliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781880364Author Michael RittersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

This book offers a new critical perspective on the perpetual problem of literature's relationship to reality and in particular on the sustained tension between literature and historiography. The scholarly and literary works of W.G. Sebald (1944-2001)...

While Gender Studies has made its mark on literary studies, much scholarship on the German Middle Ages is largely inaccessible to the Anglo-American audience. With gender at its core as a category of analysis, "Gender Bonds, Gender Binds"uniquely opens...

The proletariat never existed-but it had a profound effect on modern German culture and society. As the most radicalized part of the industrial working class, the proletariat embodied the critique of capitalism and the promise of socialism. But as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781511871358Author The Perfect LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

How are we to think of satire if it has ceased to exist as a discrete genre? This study proposes a novel solution, understanding the satiric in the postwar era as a set of writing practices: figures of inversion, myth-making, and citation. By showing how...

This text contains a comprehensive A-Z list of all Shakespeare's plays, all of the characters in those plays, as well as persons and places mentioned in the plays; the principal actors, acting companies, and theatres of the time; other playwrights,...

In this study of the imaginary universe of Germany's most famous author of fantasy, Kenneth Negus attempts to establish the coherency and fathom the depth of the "other world" manifested in Hoffmann's many tales. Proceeding mainly from Der Goldene Topf,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765100424Author Professor or Dr. Stanley CorngoldFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357945356Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint V & S PublishersPublisher V & S PublishersWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781983901195Author L Dale RichesinFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111520803Author Nicola GessFormat PaperbackPage Count 403Imprint De GruyterPublisher De Gruyter

In Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted. Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel...

'I am holding on to that summer, not just in my thoughts but with my whole body, from my numb fingers down to my toes. The summer when the river was ours, and so was the boathouse, the city, the meadows and the reeds at the water's edge. Happiness only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357944137Author Hermann SudermannFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint V & S PublishersPublisher V & S PublishersWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357937269Author Hermann HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781880951Author Barbara BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839540257Author Joanna RaisbeckFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942203162Author Shannon Keenan GreeneFormat PaperbackImprint Julius MeijerPublisher Julius MeijerWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934730317Author Bennett MuraskinFormat PaperbackImprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 141g

In the wake of the French Revolution, history was no longer imagined as a cyclical process in which the succession of ruling dynasties was as predictable as the change in the seasons. Contemporaries wrestled with the meaning of this historical rupture,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523263790Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512821161Author George C AveryFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

Historical Dictionary of German Literature to 1945 covers a wide swath of literary analysis and achievement, from Old High German lays and ecclesiastical encomia to Middle High German epics, sagas, and love lyrics. While extensive in its chronological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512821000Author William H ReyFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania PressWeight(grams)...

Some authors strongly criticized attempts to rebuild a German literary culture in the aftermath of World War II, while others actively committed themselves to "dealing with the German past." There are writers in Austria and Switzerland that...

Some authors strongly criticized attempts to rebuild a German literary culture in the aftermath of World War II, while others actively committed themselves to "dealing with the German past." There are writers in Austria and Switzerland that...

There are few literary authors in whose work animals and other creatures play as prominent a role as they do in Franz Kafka's. Exploring multiple dimensions of Kafka's incorporation of nonhuman creatures into his writing, this volume is the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916379681Author Salvatore ColominoFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Scripta HumanisticaPublisher Scripta HumanisticaWeight(grams) 440g

This work originally published in 1967 was the first to treat Wizlaw in his three roles of composer, poet, and sovereign and to present his poetry in English. Thomas and Seagrave also include a bibliography, translations and music transcriptions of all...

Flygt undertakes an analysis first of Hebbel's writings on social and historical progress in his letters and diaries and then of his plays, in order to draw conclusions on Hebbel's conception of movement. Noting oscillations throughout Hebbel's life...

Ellis's book confronts directly the most central issue of Kleist criticism: the essential nature and meaning of his work. Rather than provide a general survey of Kleist's writings, Ellis performs an analysis of six of his most mature works: Der Findling,...

This volume is a study in the Romantic reshaping of space and time to evoke the fantastic interior landscape and the temporal dynamics of subjective experience. Close textual analysis is coupled with frequent reference to literary and intellectual...

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The author casts new light on Hausen's lyrics by often favoring the manuscript readings. In the readings, irony emerges as a leading poetic device, as does the element of Spiel. Questions arise regarding such concepts as Gottesdienst, Frauendienst, and...

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