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Ruodlieb - The Earliest Courtly Novel (After 1050)

by Edwin H. Zeydel

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 Considered the earliest courtly romance in Germany, Ruodlieb is an invaluable document of eleventh century European society and a fascinating link in the development of the novel of chivalry. This edition by Edwin H. Zeydel with Latin text and the first English translation on facing pages is based upon painstaking study of the manuscripts.
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Wilhelm Waiblinger In Italy

by Lawrence S. Thompson

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 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, living and traveling in Italy.
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The Heliand - Translated From The Old Saxon

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 Mariana Scott, poet and translator of Hofmannsthal, Meyrink, Celan, and others, translates the eighth-century Old Saxon Heliand into its original meter in this work originally published in 1966. This anonymous masterpiece presents the life of Christ and affords an excellent insight into medieval life.
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Ludwig Tieck And America

by Percy Matenko

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 Explores the question of Tieck's reception in and influence on the American literary scene before 1900, with the additional goal of shedding light on the reception in America of German Romanticism as a whole.
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Structures Of Influence - A Comparative Approach To August Strindberg

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 Featuring contributions from eminent Swedish and American Strindberg scholars, this collection of essays addresses the question of how Strindberg's art collides and colludes, ideologically and aesthetically, with the literary doyens of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in both the Scandinavian and the larger Western cultural context.
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The Boundless Present - Space And Time In The Literary Fairy Tales Of Novalis And Tieck

by Gordon Birrell

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 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 history in the reassessment of the narrative art of Novalis and Tieck.
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The Humanist Ulrich Von Hutten - A Reappraisal Of His Humor

by Thomas W. Best

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 Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523), Renaissance-Reformation publisher and ardent champion of German nationalism, has previously been characterized as a bitter and vehement political satirist. From this concise, critical survey of his comic writing a more balanced, congenial image of Hutten emerges.
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Whitman And Nietzsche - A Comparative Study Of Their Thought

by C. N. Stavrou

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 Draws from the entire bodies of work by Whitman and Nietzsche to explore the parallels in the authors' conceptions of paradox, the totality of life, and solitude among other themes in this exploration of the underlying philosophical similarities of these two great writers of the nineteenth century.
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Studies In Arthur Schnitzler - Centennial Commemorative Volume

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 This valuable collection of eight original and penetrating essays by American scholars honours the centenary of the Austrian dramatist's birth. The contributors attend to themes from depictions of death to the influence of Nietzsche on Schnitzler's work and his reception in France.
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Middle Ages-Reformation-Volkskunde - Festschrift For John G. Kunstmann

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 Presents twenty essays on medieval history, literature and language published in honour of John G. Kunstmann and his work on German literature in the Middle Ages.
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The Essence Of Philosophy

by Wilhelm Dilthey

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 Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), the great German humanist, remained a towering figure in Europe long into the twentieth century. Published in 1954, this translation by Stephen Emery and William Emery was the first English translation of Dilthey's Das Wesen der Philosophie (1907) and his first work to be translated completely into English.
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General De Kalb, Lafayette'S Mentor

by A. E. Zucker

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 Originally published in 1966, A.E. Zucker presented the first modern biography of General de Kalb, who held the rank of major general in the Continental Army and died at the Battle of Camden. Through the use of previously unpublished materials, Zucker's biography challenged previous views of de Kalb and depicts his relationship with Lafayette.
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Herod And Mariamne - A Tragedy In Five Acts By Friedrich Hebbel

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 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.
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Duinesian Elegies

by Rainer Maria Rilke

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 A poetic English rendering of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duineser Elegien printed together with the original German on facing pages. The translation places high value on conveying the meaning of the Elegies, although it does not attempt to retain the original meter.
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Friedrich Von Hausen - Inquiries Into His Poetry

by Hugo Bekker

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 Casts new light on Hausen's lyrics by often favouring 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 hohe Minne.
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Greek Antiquity In Schiller'S Wallenstein

by Gisela N. Berns

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 An exploration of the poetic function of Greek archetypes in Schiller's Wallenstein, this study claims Homer's Iliad and Euripides's Iphigenia in Aulis, the first epic and the last tragic poem about the Trojan War in the Greek tradition, as archetypal sources for Schiller's modern historical drama about the Thirty Years War.
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Language, Literature, And The Negotiation Of Identity - Foreign Worker German In The Federal Republic Of Germany

by Barbara A. Fennell

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 Examines the way in which the identity of foreign workers and foreign writers in Germany is negotiated on the basis of language use and literary activity. The book looks at the history of immigration to Germany since the turn of the century and a description of the social situation of foreigners living there at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
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German Verse From The 12th To The 20th Century In English Translation

by J. W. Thomas

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 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 reader from the Minnesingers' songs of courtly love to Rilke, this volume gives an excellent introduction to eight centuries of German poetry.
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End Of Modernism - Elias Canetti''S Auto-Da-Fé

by William Collins Donahue

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 Nobel laureate Elias Canetti wrote his novel Auto-da-Fe when he and the twentieth century were still quite young. The End of Modernism places this work in its cultural and philosophical contexts, situating the novel not only in relation to Canetti's considerable body of social thought, but also within larger debates.
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The Look Of Things - Poetry And Vision Around 1900

by Carsten Strathausen

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 Examining the relationship between German poetry, philosophy, and visual media around 1900, Carsten Strathausen argues that the poetic works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Stephan George focused on the visible gestalt of language as a means of competing aesthetically with the increasing popularity and â€œreality effectâ€ of photography and film.
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The Parzival Of Wolfram Von Eschenbach - Translated Into English Verse With Introduction, Notes, Connecting Summaries

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 Originally published in 1950, this collaboration of two accomplished translators resulted in the first English verse translation of a major work of German literature. Rather than a translation of the entire poem, the translators present key passages connected by prose summaries, and include an introduction giving an overview of the work.
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Rainer Maria Rilke And Jugendstil - Affinities, Influences, Adaptations

by Karl Eugene Webb

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 Focuses on the striking relationship between one of the most enigmatic poets of the twentieth century and the artists of the Art Nouveau. The author explores the depth of the relationship itself, examines Rilke's activities as an art critic, and analyses the influence of Art Nouveau on the themes, motifs, and structure of the poet's early works.
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Berlin'S Forgotten Future - City, History, And Enlightenment In Eighteenth-Century Germany

by Matt Erlin

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 Through an analysis of the works of the Berlin Aufklarer Friedrich Gedike, Friedrich Nicolai, G.E. Lessing, and Moses Mendelssohn, Matt Erlin shows how the rapid changes occurring in Berlin challenged these intellectuals to engage in the kind of nuanced thinking about history that has come to be seen as characteristic of the German Enlightenment.
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Unity And Language - A Study In The Philosophy Of Johann Georg Hamann

by James C. O'Flaherty

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 This 1952 study is an investigation into the nature of language that focuses on reinterpreting Hamann's theories of language in light of twentieth century linguistic philosophy. One of the first studies of Hamann to be presented in English, it poses many questions of universal concern and interest.
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