Publications
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Brecht and the Bible
(1980)
This study identifies the underlying patterns of persistent biblical allusion in the work of renowned playwright Bertolt Brecht. Rather than reducing Brecht's use of the Bible to the purely satirical, the author interprets ...
The Boundless Present
(1979)
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 ...
Gregorius
(1955)
Originally published in 1955, this rendering in rhyming couplets was the first English translation to appear of the medieval Oedipus legend of Gregorius, made known to readers by Thomas Mann in his novel "The Holy Sinner" ...
The Poetics of Historical Perspectivism
(1992)
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 ...
Rilke—Kommentar zu den "Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge"
(1983)
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. The text's unique ...
Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany
(1996)
Early modern Germany saw the dissemination of vast quantities of information at unprecedented speed. Popular knowledge, scientific inquiry, and scholarship influenced the political order, poetic expression, public opinion, ...
Between Real and Ideal
(1963)
Otto Ludwig, nineteenth-century German novelist and critic, originated the term "poetic realism". In this excellent study, Ludwig's prose is sympathetically and thoroughly examined and a clear account of the evolution of ...
The Songs of the Minnesinger, Prince Wizlaw of Rügen
(1967)
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 ...
Goethe's Cyclical Narratives
(1975)
The novelty of this study lies in its techniques for understanding the deliberate narrative contradictions and elusive parody in Goethe's work. Interpretation of the entire "Unterhaltungen", including the Märchen, establishes ...
Letters to and from Ludwig Tieck and His Circle
(1967)
This monumental collection of 165 letters was acquired or reproduced in Europe before World War II. Fully edited, the letters between Tieck and his associates as well as between Ludwig and Sophie Tieck are an indispensable ...
The Marble Statue as Idea
(1972)
Each of the nine essays in this illuminating study of "Der Nachsommer" focuses on heretofore overlooked details of the novel. As all the phenomena presented are oriented toward fulfillment of their highest potential, the ...
The End of Modernism
(2001)
Nobel laureate Elias Canetti wrote his novel "Auto-da-Fé" ("Die Blendung") when he and the twentieth century were still quite young. Rooted in the cultural crises of the Weimar period, "Auto-da-Fé" first received critical ...
Christoph Martin Wieland as the Originator of Modern Travesty in German Literature
(1970)
In this study the extent to which Wieland contributed to the literary genre of the travesty is established, the poet's approach to his sources as well as the nature and duality of his innovations are investigated, and the ...
Studies in Goethe's Lyric Cycles
(1978)
The book presents a series of interpretive readings of the "Römische Elegien", "Sonette", "Chinesisch-deutsche Jarhes- und Tageszeiten", several trilogies, and the shorter cycles of 1821, taking into account the variety ...
Studies in Nietzsche and the Classical Tradition
(1976)
These fifteen essays deal with Nietzsche's view of various aspects of classical antiquity as compared to those of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Voltaire, Winkelmann, Hamann, Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Byron, the "fin de ...
Hermann Hesse and His Critics
(1958)
Originally published in celebration of Hermann Hesse's 80th birthday, this highly documented study, practical handbook, and reference work for Hesse scholarship is presented in three parts. Mileck gives a short biography ...
Poor Man's Fortune
(2020)
White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements, radical critiques of capitalism, and government help for the poor and sick. ...
The Lumbee Indians
(2018)
Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's mythic origin stories. Then, we are told, the main characters--the "friendly" Native Americans who met the settlers--disappeared. But the ...
Honor in German Literature
(1959)
Originally published in 1959, this first scholarly study of the origin and development of the concept of honor in German literature traces its role from ancient Germanic to modern works and shows how the transformation ...
Portrait of the Artist as Hermes
(1971)
Within the framework of Jungian archetypal psychology and utilizing Karl Kerényi's theories on Hermes and the archetypal symbolism of mother and daughter, this book combines the mythopoeic and psychoanalytical approaches ...
The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean
(2020)
Illuminating the entangled histories of the people and commodities that circulated across the Atlantic, Sharika D. Crawford assesses the Caribbean as a waterscape where imperial and national governments vied to control the ...
Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South
(2018)
In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, recover unpaid debts, recuperate back wages, and ...
Occupied Territory
(2019)
In July 1919, an explosive race riot forever changed Chicago. For years, black southerners had been leaving the South as part of the Great Migration. Their arrival in Chicago drew the ire and scorn of many local whites, ...
Mapping the Country of Regions
(2016)
The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Colombia, which began in 1850 and lasted about a decade, was one of Latin ...
Defiant Braceros
(2016)
In this book, Mireya Loza sheds new light on the private lives of migrant men who participated in the Bracero Program (1942–1964), a binational agreement between the United States and Mexico that allowed hundreds of thousands ...
Berlin's Forgotten Future
(2004)
Through an analysis of the works of the Berlin Aufklärer Friedrich Gedike, Friedrich Nicolai, G. E. Lessing, and Moses Mendelssohn, Matt Erlin shows how the rapid changes occurring in Prussia's newly minted metropolis ...
The Works of Stefan George
(1974)
This translation of all the poems in the main body of the work of George extensively revises the first publication of "The Works of Stefan George" which appeared in 1949. The editors have also expanded the volume, adding ...
German Verse from the 12th to the 20th Century in English Translation
(1963)
This anthology presents in English verse translation a selection of the best of German poetry, together with discussions of the chief authors and literary periods and brief explications of the individual poems. Taking the ...
Novalis
(1954)
Originally published in 1954, Hiebel's "Novalis" was the first critical evaluation in English of the life and works of Novalis (1772-1801), the German Romantic poet of the Blue Flower, since Thomas Carlyle's essay in 1829. ...
Death and the Plowman or, The Bohemian Plowman
(1958)
This dialogue about death from the year 1400 has no peer in early German Renaissance literature. Ernest Kirrmann presents an English translation of the German classic, as well as a preface by Alois Bernt giving an introduction ...
Wilhelm Müller's Lyrical Song-Cycles
(1970)
The poetry of Wilhelm Müller, to whom Heine expressed indebtedness for his renewal of the forms of the German "Volkslied", had rarely been discussed in depth prior to this volume originally published in 1970. Cottrell's ...
The Poetry of Brecht
(1989)
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. ...
The Letters of Arthur Schnitzler to Hermann Bahr
(1978)
Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) and Hermann Bahr (1863-1934), two of the leading literary personalities in turn-of-the-century Vienna, maintained a friendship that lasted forty years. These letters contribute to an understanding ...
Theater in the Planned Society
(1978)
This study presents the historical development of topical drama in the German Democratic Republic from 1945 to 1975. The author investigates the sociopolitical function of both dramas and dramatists such as Karl Grünberg, ...
Hajj to the Heart
(2021)
Against the sweeping backdrop of South Asian history, this is a story of journeys taken by sixteenth-century reformist Muslim scholars and Sufi mystics from India to Arabia. At the center is the influential Sufi scholar ...
Whitman and Nietzsche
(1964)
This volume will be a great aid to students and scholars alike in American literature, American thought, the history of ideas, and comparative literature. Stavrou draws from the entire bodies of work by Whitman and Nietzsche ...
Music of the Minnesinger and Early Meistersinger
(1962)
Originally published in 1962, this complete bibliography of the music of the Minnesinger provided an essential tool for scholars of medieval German literature. The songs are listed in alphabetical order by composer along ...
Poems of Goethe
(1957)
Following his previous translation of one hundred of Goethe's poems, in this volume Zeydel presents translations of a selection of Goethe's shorter poems, the majority of which were written in the last twenty years of his ...
Novalis and Mathematics
(1960)
A study of in the interrelationship of the sciences and the humanities grounded in the writings of Novalis in the early Romantic period, this work is of special interest to literary historians, mathematicians, and mathematical ...
The Hermit in German Literature
(1961)
In this thorough study of the figure of the hermit in the works of German writers Fitzell analyzes characters in works by Lessing, Goethe, Klinger, Hoffmann, Wieland, Eichendorff and others. The author argues that the ...