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Kafka'S Narrators - A Study Of His Stories And Sketches

by Roy Pascal

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 Prepared for publication by Martin Swales and Siegbert Prawer after Roy Pascal's death, this book is more than simply one further addition to the bewildering corpus of secondary literature on Kafka. For it is a study which cuts through previous critical controversies by focusing on matters of literary and stylistic technique.
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Theodor Fontane: The Major Novels

by Alan Bance

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 In this 1982 book, Professor Bance sets the novels of Theodor Fontane in the context of nineteenth-century Europe in order to demonstrate that his Å"ouvre can be seen in terms of a tension between a desire to present the facts and a desire to assert some transcendent poetic truth.
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The Younger Goethe And The Visual Arts

by W. D. Robson-Scott

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 This 1981 book is concerned with the part which the visual arts played in Goethe's life and thought from his earliest years to the end of his visit to Italy. It should be of interest both to students of German literature and to art history students. All German quotations have been translated to English.
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Arno Schmidt: A Critical Study Of His Prose

by M. R. Minden

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 This 1982 book was the first monograph in English to offer a critical study of an important twentieth-century German novelist, Arno Schmidt. He aroused large-scale public interest with the publication of a gigantic prose work, Zettel's Traum, in 1970 and developed a cult following which survived his death.
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Hebbel'S Prose Tragedies - An Investigation Of The Aesthetic Aspect Of Hebbel'S Dramatic Language

by Mary Garland

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 A study of the nineteenth-century German writer Friedrich Hebbel, concentrating on his tragedies in prose, and examining in particular the way in which the language is used to convey Hebbel's beliefs, attitudes and intellectual preoccupations and also the dramatic effects. The three tragedies Judith, Maria Magdalene and Agnes Bernauer are studied in turn.
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Else Lasker-Schuler - The Broken World

by Hans W. Cohn

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 This 1974 book was the first full-length treatment in English of the poetry of Else Lasker-SchÃ¼ler (1869â€"1945), a German-Jewish poet who died in exile in Jerusalem. The aim of the author, a practising psychologist, was to see poetry as an expression of the deeper urges of the psyche.
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Essays On Medieval German Literature And Iconography

by F. P. Pickering

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 This 1980 book contains a selection of twelve essays spanning the period 1953â€"77, three of which are translated. The essays in the volume concern medieval ideas of fate, fortune and history, and the persuasive influence of the Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius.
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Essays On Medieval German And Other Poetry

by A. T. Hatto

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 The essays reprinted in this 1980 book were first published at various times between 1951 and 1972. They deal largely with medieval German heroic and epic poetry, emphasising the way the basic language and imagery of that literature were rooted in a deep understanding and appreciation of the natural world.
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Kudrun: A Critical Appreciation

by Ian R. Campbell

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 Kudrun is a German epic poem thought to have been composed within the decade 1230â€"40, and is thus contemporaneous with other epics of the classical age of Middle High German literature. In this 1978 book, Dr Campbell pays particular attention to the language of the text, and past emendations.
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Salomon Gessner: His Creative Achievement And Influence

by John (University Of Bristol) Hibberd

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 At a time when German was despised as barbaric, Salomon Gessner was hailed as a poet of universal significance. Yet today he is scarcely known. This 1976 book contextualises the writer, traces the story of his impact and stresses his significance as a key to the taste of his age.
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Rainer Maria Rilke'S 'Gedichte An Die Nacht' - An Essay In Interpretation

by Anthony (University Of Sydney) Stephens

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 Rilke's Gedichte an die Nacht are important because their composition was contemporary with his Duinese Elegien, and they show the poet at work on ideas and motifs which are central to these elegies. The first part of the book analyses the poems thematically, whilst the second gives the results of this analysis wider application.
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Friderich Von Husen: Introduction, Text, Commentary And Glossary

by D. G. Mowatt

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 Professor Mowatt's edition of Friderich von HÃ»sen's poetry comprises a reprint of the two Middle High German manuscripts in which it is preserved, together with introduction, commentary and glossary. Von HÃ»sen, twelfth-century Minnesinger, was a knight from Kreuznach in Rhine Franconia and died on a crusade to the Holy Land.
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Rennewart In Wolfram'S 'Willehalm' - A Study Of Wolfram Von Eschenbach And His Sources

by Carl Lofmark

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 Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm and the Old French chanson de geste, La Bataille d'Aliscans, on which it was based, recount the tale of Guillaume de'Orange's defeat of the Saracens at the battle of Aliscans. This 1972 book examines Wolfram's use of his source material, concentrating on episodes in which Rennewart figures.
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Adalbert Stifter: A Critical Study

by Erika Swales e Martin Swales

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 Although Adalbert Stifter (1808â€"68) has long been recognised as a key figure in nineteenth-century German prose writing, his literary reputation has been curiously volatile. This major 1984 study was a reassessment of Stifter's work within the context of the tradition of nineteenth-century European fictional prose.
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The Art Of Narration In Wolfram'S Parzival And Albrecht'S Jungerer Titurel

by Linda B. Parshall

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 This 1981 text is a study of the narrative techniques in two important thirteenth-century German romances: one by Wolfram von Eschenbach and Albrecht, a lesser-known but highly skilled follower of Wolfram.
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Narration In The German Novelle - Theory And Interpretation

by John M. Ellis

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 The main body of this book is devoted to interpretative essays on individual Novellen by Kleist, Tieck, Hoffmann, Grillparzwe, Keller, Storm, Hauptmann and Kafka. In a sense they all illustrate one central problem: the relationship of the narrator to his story, and the importance of this relationship for its interpretation.
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Lessing'S Laocoon - Semiotics And Aesthetics In The Age Of Reason

by David E. Wellbery

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 This study analyses the emergence of aesthetic theory in eighteenth-century Germany in relation to contemporary theories of the nature of language and signs. As well as being extremely relevant to the discussion of literary theory, this perspective casts much light on Enlightenment aesthetics.
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The Drama Of Revolt - A Critical Study Of Georg Buchner

by Maurice B. Benn

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 A comprehensive study of the art and thought of George BÃ¼chner.
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The Art Of Narration In Wolfram'S Parzival And Albrecht'S Jungerer Titurel

by Linda B. Parshall

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 This text studies the narrative techniques of Wolfram and Albrecht.
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French Sacred Drama From Beze To Corneille - Dramatic Forms And Their Purposes In The Early Modern Theatre

by J. S. Street

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 This 1983 book is a comprehensive study of the French sacred theatre at the crucial transition from medieval to modern conception of theatre.
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Hebbel'S Prose Tragedies - An Investigation Of The Aesthetic Aspect Of Hebbel'S Dramatic Language

by Mary Garland

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 A study of the nineteenth-century German writer Friedrich Hebbel.
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Arno Schmidt: A Critical Study Of His Prose

by M. R. Minden

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 This 1982 monograph in English offers a critical study of an important twentieth-century German novelist, Arno Schmidt.
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Adalbert Stifter: A Critical Study

by Erika Swales e Martin Swales

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 This major study reassesses Adalbert Stifter's work within the context of the tradition of nineteenth-century European fictional prose.
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Comparative Physiology - Water, Ions And Fluid Mechanics

by K. Schmidt-Nielsen, L. Bolis e S. H. P. Maddrell

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 This 1978 volume contains papers from contributors to the Third International Conference on Comparative physiology.
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