Literary companions books

In this thorough study of the figure of the hermit in the works of German writers, Fitzell analyses characters in...  Read More >>

Presents a picture of the ideals of courtly love in Europe in the latter half of the twelfth and beginning of the...  Read More >>

Draws from the entire bodies of work by Whitman and Nietzsche to explore the parallels in the authors' conceptions...  Read More >>

A survey of the literary treatment of musicians in German novels and novellas beginning with the Romantics and ending...  Read More >>

Using previously unpublished and neglected sources, this 1963 study of the critical decade in the philosopher's...  Read More >>

Rendered into English for the first time by Wayne Wonderley and provided with a critical introduction, this rollicking...  Read More >>

From Madame de Stael, Dumas, and Taine, to Giraudoux, Adamov, Ionesco, and the existentialists, this study provides...  Read More >>

In this study originally published in 1955, Steer explores the importance of Goethe's family concept in two autobiographical...  Read More >>

This dialogue about death from the year 1400 has no peer in early German Renaissance literature. Ernest Kirrmann...  Read More >>

Otto Ludwig, nineteenth-century German novelist and critic, originated the term poetic realism. In this excellent...  Read More >>

Originally published in celebration of Hermann Hesse's 80th birthday, this highly documented study, practical handbook,...  Read More >>

Considered the earliest courtly romance in Germany, Ruodlieb is an invaluable document of eleventh century European...  Read More >>

A study of German fiction about America in the nineteenth century that concentrates on three writers: Charles Sealsfield,...  Read More >>

Relying on an edition of Novalis' notebooks which includes much of the author's scientific and philosophical musings,...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1967, Richard Allen's volume with a foreword by Robert Weiss was the first comprehensive...  Read More >>

The novelty of this study lies in its techniques for understanding the deliberate narrative contradictions and elusive...  Read More >>

Ellis's book confronts directly the most central issue of Kleist criticism: the essential nature and meaning of...  Read More >>

Offers an analysis of Heinrich Boll's short satirical prose, which is generally acclaimed as his most successful...  Read More >>

A collection of thirteen essays by comparatists and Germanists published in celebration of the scholar and poet...  Read More >>

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In this study the extent to which Wieland contributed to the literary genre of the travesty is established, the...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive study of the dramas of Nicodemus Frischlin (1547-1590), one of the most versatile and complex...  Read More >>

Although the fabliaux are widely acknowledged as inspiring Giovanni Boccaccio's masterpiece, the Decameron, this...  Read More >>

Provides a critical study of all seven of Hoffmann's Kunstmarchen. Vitt-Maucher's detailed individual analyses focus...  Read More >>