A New History of German Literature
Title | A New History of German Literature PDF eBook |
Author | David E. Wellbery |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 1038 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780674015036 |
'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.
A History of Histories of German Literature
Title | A History of Histories of German Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Michael S. Batts |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780773511408 |
Knowledge of German literature is frequently based on the hundreds of general histories of German literature that have been published since the genre first appeared at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In A History of Histories of German Literature Michael Batts attempts to describe the various forms which these histories took between 1835 and 1914, not only in Germany but in other countries, and show how these forms developed.
The Cambridge History of German Literature
Title | The Cambridge History of German Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 632 |
Release | 2000-06-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521785730 |
This is the first book to describe German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990. It takes a fresh look at the main authors and movements, and also asks what Germans in a given period were actually reading and writing, what they would have seen at the local theatre or found in the local lending library; it includes, for example, discussions of literature in Latin as well as in German, eighteenth-century letters and popular novels, Nazi literature and radio plays, and modern Swiss and Austrian literature. A new prominence is given to writing by women. Contributors, all leading scholars in their field, have re-examined standard judgements in writing a history for our own times. The book is designed for the general reader as well as the advanced student: titles and quotations are translated, and there is a comprehensive bibliography.
A Concise History of Germany
Title | A Concise History of Germany PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Fulbrook |
Publisher | |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Germany |
ISBN |
Reflections on the History of Art
Title | Reflections on the History of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Ernst Hans Gombrich |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 1987-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520061897 |
Essays discuss Greek and Chineese art, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Dutch genre painting, Rubens, Rembrandt, art collecting, museums, and Freud's aesthetics
German-Balkan Entangled Histories in the Twentieth Century
Title | German-Balkan Entangled Histories in the Twentieth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Molnar |
Publisher | Russian and East European Stud |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2020-10-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822946458 |
This volume brings together a diverse group of scholars from North America and Europe to explore the history and memory of Germany's fateful push for power in the Balkans during the era of the two world wars and the long postwar period. Each chapter focuses on one or more of four interrelated themes: war, empire, (forced) migration, and memory. The first section, "War and Empire in the Balkans," explores Germany's quest for empire in Southeast Europe during the first half of the century, a goal that was pursued by economic and military means. The book's second section, "Aftershocks and Memories of War," focuses on entangled German-Balkan histories that were shaped by, or a direct legacy of, Germany's exceptionally destructive push for power in Southeast Europe during World War II. German-Balkan Entangled Histories in the Twentieth Century expands and enriches the neglected topic of Germany's continued entanglements with the Balkans in the era of the world wars, the Cold War, and today.
Telling Tales
Title | Telling Tales PDF eBook |
Author | David Blamires |
Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1906924090 |
Germany has had a profound influence on English stories for children. The Brothers Grimm, The Swiss Family Robinson and Johanna Spyri's Heidi quickly became classics but, as David Blamires clearly articulates in this volume, many other works have been fundamental in the development of English chilren's stories during the 19th Centuary and beyond. Telling Tales is the first comprehensive study of the impact of Germany on English children's books, covering the period from 1780 to the First World War. Beginning with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, moving through the classics and including many other collections of fairytales and legends (Musaus, Wilhelm Hauff, Bechstein, Brentano) Telling Tales covers a wealth of translated and adapted material in a large variety of forms, and pays detailed attention to the problems of translation and adaptation of texts for children. In addition, Telling Tales considers educational works (Campe and Salzmann), moral and religious tales (Carove, Schmid and Barth), historical tales, adventure stories and picture books (including Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz) together with an analysis of what British children learnt through textbooks about Germany as a country and its variegated history, particularly in times of war.