The Cambridge Companion to Goethe
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Goethe PDF eBook |
Author | Lesley Sharpe |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2002-05-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521665605 |
The Cambridge Companion to Goethe provides a stimulating and accessible survey of this many-sided figure. The volume places Goethe in the context of the Germany and Europe of his lifetime. His literary work is covered in individual chapters on poetry, drama (with a separate chapter on Faust), prose fiction and autobiography. A wide-ranging survey of reception inside and outside Germany and an extensive guide to further reading round off this volume, which will appeal to students and specialists alike.
The Cambridge Companion to Zola
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Zola PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Nelson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2007-02-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139827278 |
Emile Zola is a towering literary figure of the nineteenth century. His main literary achievement was his twenty-volume novel cycle, Les Rougon-Macquart (1870–93). In this series he combines a novelist's skills with those of the investigative journalist to examine the social, sexual and moral landscape of the late nineteenth century in a way that scandalized bourgeois society. In 1898 Zola crowned his literary career with a political act, his famous open letter ('J'accuse...!') to the President of the French Republic in defence of Alfred Dreyfus. The essays in this volume offer readings of individual novels as well as analyses of Zola's originality, his representation of society, sexuality and gender, his relations with the painters of his time, his narrative art, and his role in the Dreyfus Affair. The Companion also includes a chronology, detailed summaries of all of Zola's novels, suggestions for further reading, and information about specialist resources.
The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism
Title | The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Saul |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 2009-07-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521848911 |
Explains the development of Romantic arts and culture in Germany, with both individual artists and key themes covered in detail.
The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists
Title | The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Bell |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 475 |
Release | 2012-06-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521515041 |
A survey of 25 major European novelists from Cervantes to Kundera, highlighting their contributions to the genre.
The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix PDF eBook |
Author | Beth S. Wright |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2001-02-12 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780521658898 |
The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix serves as an introduction to one of the most important and most complex artists of the nineteenth century. Providing an overview of his life and career, this volume offers essays by leading authorities on the artist's pictorial practice, the stylistic range over classicism and Romanticism, his writings, both private diary notations and published articles, and his impact on modern aesthetics, among other topics. Designed to serve as an essential resource for students of French nineteenth-century art history, cultural history, and literature, The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix also provides a chronology of the artist's life, set into its political and cultural contexts, as well as a list of suggested further reading in the topic areas.
The Cambridge Companion to the Lied
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Lied PDF eBook |
Author | James Parsons |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 2004-07 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521804714 |
Beginning several generations before Schubert, the Lied first appears as domestic entertainment. In the century that follows it becomes one of the primary modes of music-making. By the time German song comes to its presumed conclusion with Richard Strauss's 1948 Vier letzte Lieder, this rich repertoire has moved beyond the home and keyboard accompaniment to the symphony hall. This is a 2004 introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre. In essays by eminent scholars, this Companion places the Lied in its full context - at once musical, literary, and cultural - with chapters devoted to focal composers as well as important issues, such as the way in which the Lied influenced other musical genres, its use as a musical commodity, and issues of performance. The volume is framed by a detailed chronology of German music and poetry from the late 1730s to the present and also contains a comprehensive bibliography.
Goethe Contra Newton
Title | Goethe Contra Newton PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis L. Sepper |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2003-02-13 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 9780521531320 |
Sepper shows that the condemnation of Goethe's attacks on Newton has been based on erroneous assumptions about the history of Newton's theory.