Publications
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Lessing's "Aesthetica in Nuce"
(1971)
This letter 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. Although both arguments are ...
Studies in the German Drama
(1974)
Sixteen of his former colleagues and students join in this volume in honoring Walter Silz. Concentrating on a single theme—the German drama—this volume contains essays and interpretations of plays ranging from Hrotsvit von ...
Herod and Mariamne
(1950)
Originally published in 1950, this volume contains a vivid English verse translation by Paul H. Curts of one of the most profound and moving tragedies of German literature.
Committed
(2021)
Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota. But detention at the ...
The Urge to Live
(1964)
This is a penetrative and perceptive comparison of two of the most discussed novels of the twentieth century. Beginning with Camus' own appraisal of Kafka's work, the study convincingly analyzes the authors' fictive ...
The Political Dramaturgy of Nicodemus Frischlin
(1990)
This is 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, ...
Wilhelm Waiblinger in Italy
(1953)
This study traces the importance of Italy as a source of literary inspiration in the work of the Swabian poet Wilhelm Waiblinger (1804-1830), who spent the last four years of his life, the most prolific of his career, ...
E. T. A. Hoffmanns Märchenschaffen
(1989)
This book provides a critical study of all seven of Hoffmann's "Kunstmärchen". Vitt-Maucher's detailed individual analyses focus on Hoffmann's use of structural, stylistic, and linguistic devices to create poetic deviations ...
The Maiden of Orleans
(1962)
First published as an American contribution to the 1959 bicentennial celebration of Friedrich Schiller's birth, Krumpelmann's translation of the poet's Joan of Arc drama retains the iambic pentameter of the original. This ...
Readers and Their Fictions in the Novels and Novellas of Gottfried Keller
(1989)
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 ...
Studies in Historical Linguistics in Honor of George Sherman Lane
(1967)
This 1967 volume honoring Professor George S. Lane also 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, ...
Corazón de Dixie
(2015)
When Latino migration to the U.S. South became increasingly visible in the 1990s, observers and advocates grasped for ways to analyze "new" racial dramas in the absence of historical reference points. However, as this book ...
Middle Ages—Reformation—Volkskunde
(1959)
Twenty essays on medieval history, literature and language published in honor of John G. Kunstmann and his work on German literature in the Middle Ages. The contributors are Berthold Ullman, Urban Tigner Holmes, Edwin ...
Your Diamond Dreams Cut Open My Arteries
(1982)
Critics have called Else Lasker-Schüler the greatest of all German women poets and one of the finest Jewish poets. This large and representative selection of translations by Robert P. Newton, supplemented by a biographical ...
Studies in Nietzsche and the Judaeo-Christian Tradition
(1985)
This collection of essays is a sequel to the editors' 1976 volume "Studies in Nietzsche and the Classical Tradition". Philosophers, theologians, and literary historians discuss important aspects of Nietzsche's attack on ...
The Drama of German Expressionism
(1960)
Originally published in 1960, this bibliography with more than five thousand items provided an indispensable tool for those interested in the German expressionist plays. The volume contains a general bibliography on German ...
Goethe's "Faust"
(1976)
The essays in this collection range from close textual analysis to discussions of larger problems such as Goethe's relation to Christianity as illuminated by the theme of sacrifice in "Faust". This work is viewed with ...
Studies in German Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
(1970)
Twenty-one distinguished American Germanists pay tribute to F. E. Coenen, previous longtime editor (1952-1968) of UNC Press' Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures series. Their essays—reflecting a variety of ...
Ideology, Mimesis, Fantasy
(1998)
This study of German fiction about America in the nineteenth century concentrates in detail on three writers: Charles Sealsfield (Carl Postl, 1793–1864), an escaped Moravian monk who came to New Orleans in 1823 and wrote ...
Kleist in France
(1962)
From Madame de Staël, Dumas, and Taine, to Giraudoux, Adamov, Ionesco, and the existentialists, this study provides a fascinating account of the progress of Kleist's reception in France from complete rejection in 1807 to ...