Literary companions books

Offers an analysis of Hebbel's writings on social and historical progress in order to draw conclusions on Hebbel's...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1959, this first scholarly study of the origin and development of the concept of honor in...  Read More >>

These essays represent the push to provide interdisciplinary Brecht research to English-speaking audiences following...  Read More >>

For eighteenth century readers, the contents of a novel were often perceived as part of reality. This book is concerned...  Read More >>

Challenges scholarship which characterizes the work of Austrian dramatist Franz Grillparzer as eminently personal...  Read More >>

Provides an evaluation of the ideological significance of the Arminius trope in patriotic German literature. Beginning...  Read More >>

Though not a survey of Bertolt Brecht's poetry, this book covers the major periods in his work and most of its major...  Read More >>

Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction,...  Read More >>

An essential tool for gaining access to the writings of the humanist Peter Schott. The commentary volume comprises...  Read More >>

Offers an unorthodox approach to the origin, historicity, and authorship of the anonymous Icelandic sagas. Following...  Read More >>

Examines the interplay of history, textuality, dramaturgy, and politics in the school dramas of Daniel Casper von...  Read More >>

Presents interpretation and criticism of Catharina von Greiffenberg's Geistliche Sonnette (1662) with contrastive...  Read More >>

Analyses the influence of the merchant class on what Leo Balet termed the Verburgerlichung (the’becoming middle-class')...  Read More >>

Concentrating on a single theme-the German drama, this volume contains essays and interpretations of plays ranging...  Read More >>

A study in the Romantic reshaping of space and time to evoke the fantastic interior landscape and the temporal dynamics...  Read More >>

Presents the historical development of topical drama in the German Democratic Republic from 1945 to 1975. The author...  Read More >>

This correspondence is a firsthand record of a literary and personal friendship that spanned the years 1906 to 1931....  Read More >>

Presents in comprehensive fashion the extraordinary development of Ariadne auf Naxos from its conception to the...  Read More >>

Traces the importance of Italy as a source of literary inspiration in the work of the Swabian poet Wilhelm Waiblinger...  Read More >>

In this first definitive study of Friedrich Schiller's relationship to music, R.M. Longyear discusses Schiller's...  Read More >>

This study seeks to alter our understanding of Keller's realism by problematizing the act of reading within fiction....  Read More >>

Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) and Hermann Bahr (1863-1934), two of the leading literary personalities in turn-of-the-century...  Read More >>

Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523), Renaissance-Reformation publisher and ardent champion of German nationalism, has...  Read More >>

Presents a series of interpretive readings of the Romische Elegien, Sonette, Chinesisch-deutsche Jarhes- und Tageszeiten,...  Read More >>

In this volume Stephen Kaplowitt scrutinizes the entire lyric production of Minnesanger from Der von Kurenberg to...  Read More >>