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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 ...