Download or read book Religion Reason and Culture in the Age of Goethe written by Elisabeth Krimmer and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates how culture in the Age of Goethe shaped and was shaped by a sustained and multifaceted debate about the place of religion in politics, philosophy, and culture. The eighteenth century is usually considered to be a time of increasing secularization in which the primacy of theology was replaced by the authority of reason, yet this lofty intellectual endeavor played itself out in a social and political reality that was heavily impacted by religious customs and institutions. This duality is visible in the literature and culture of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany. On the one hand, authors such asGoethe, Schiller, and Kleist are known for their distance from traditional Christianity. On the other hand, many canonical texts from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- from Goethe's Faust to Schiller's Die Jungfrau von Orleans to Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas -- are not only filled with references to the Bible, but invoke religious frameworks. Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe investigates how culture in the Age of Goethe shaped and was shaped by a sustained and multifaceted debate about the place of religion and religious difference in politics, philosophy, and culture, enriching our understanding of the relationship between religion and culture during this foundational period in German history. Contributors: Frederick Amrine, Claire Baldwin, Lisa Beesley, Jane K. Brown, Jeffrey L. High, Elisabeth Krimmer, Helmut J. Schneider, Patricia Anne Simpson, John H. Smith, Tom Spencer. Elisabeth Krimmer is professor of German at the University of California, Davis. Patricia Anne Simpson is professor of German at Montana State University.
Download or read book The Trauma of Defeat written by James Martin Skidmore and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study to consider Ricarda Huch's historical-political thought and assess Huch's place within the lively historiographical discourses of the 1920s. One of the most famous writers of her day, Huch (1864-1947) was known for her poetry, fiction, and histories of German Romanticism and the Thirty Years' War. Like many of her generation Huch was shaken by Germany's defeat in the First World War, and this shock motivated her to use her historiography to address Germany's post-war situation. Convinced that the German nation possessed an identity best expressed by the ideals of Romanticism, Huch attributed Germany's decline to the westernization of German political culture; absolutism and centralization had replaced the theoretical perfection of the decentralized early Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Her Weimar histories of medieval and nineteenth-century Germany urged a defeated and traumatized nation to return to a path that had been abandoned during the Wilhelmine Empire. Topics explored include Huch's use of Nietzschean monumentalism, a comparison with popular historians of the period (e.g. E. Kantorowicz), the echoes of her political thought in her poetry and fiction, and her complex relationship to German nationalism.
Download or read book Goethe s Critique of Pietism and His Call for T tigkeit written by Judith Wamser and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reception of Georg Kaiser 1915 45 written by Peter K. Tyson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Germanic Accent Grammatical Change and the Laws of Unaccented Syllables written by Richard J. E. D'Alquen and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The accepted change from movable pitch accent to fixed dynamic accent in Germanic is so substantial that it must have been multi-staged. The author posits stages, using acoustic phonetics, Verner's Law and accent markings in Old High German. He tests his theory in all major areas of Germanic grammar. Many old problems receive more convincing solutions, even Germanic finals and Scandinavian accent 2.
Download or read book Pietists written by Peter C. Erb and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pietism, with is origins in late 16th- and early 17th-century German Lutheranism, emphasized conversion, union with Christ, and importance of Scripture. This volume is the most comprehensive collection of Pietist writings available in English.
Download or read book A History of Histories of German Literature written by Michael S. Batts and published by New York : P. Lang. This book was released on 1987 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The various histories of German literature are not only general presentations of the research carried out, they have an existence of their own. They arose at the same time as literary research, but developed independently, at times in opposition to research. It is the author's endeavour to trace these histories up to the first large, comprehensive work (Gervinus).
Download or read book Selected Essays on German Literature written by Hermann Boeschenstein and published by New York : Lang. This book was released on 1986 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermann Böschenstein, born in Stein am Rhein, Switzerland in 1900, did his doctorate in Rostock under Emil Utziz and came to Canada in the 1920's, first as a tourist and then as a permanent immigrant. He spent over fifty years in Canada as a teacher and scholar, becoming Head of the University of Toronto's Department of German and one of Canada's leading Germanists. Among his many publications on German Literature his two-volume Deutsche Gefühlskultur (1954 and 1966) remains an unique attempt to chart the development of feeling as expressed in German Literature since the Enlightenment. This present volume gathers together his essays in English on German Literature which demonstrate his life-long endeavour to seek out and promote those humanistic values that are embodied in great literature.
Download or read book Edward Bulwer Lytton and Germany written by Richard A. Zipser and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1974 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a survey and interpretation of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's relationship to German life and letters. It provides a detailed study of the influence that Goethe, Schiller, and German «Rosicrucianism» exerted upon his writings and artistic development. The impact that Bulwer-Lytton had on contemporary German literature and his critical reception in 19th-century Germany are also examined in depth.
Download or read book A History of Modern German Literature written by Hermann Boeschenstein and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his almost sixty years as an active German scholar, Hermann Boeschenstein, a voracious reader, possessed the unique ability not only to discern the fundamental currents of an age, but also to see the lines of continuity and development between one age and the next. Here, in his History of Modern German Literature, he demonstrates a rare achievement. He has filtered a century of German literature through a discerning mind and distilled for us its lasting essence. This book presents a continuous narrative of twentieth century German literature from a point of view that stresses the human, social and artistic continuity of the modern era. Above all, the author traces the thread of the humanistic tradition which weaves its way through the fabric of German literature from Nietzsche to the present day.
Download or read book The Critical Idyll written by Peter Morgan and published by Peter Morgan. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critical Idyll is a socio-literary re-evaluation of Goethe’s idyllic verse epic, Hermann und Dorothea. The revival of traditional German values as markers of national identity against the approaching revolutionary armies of the French in the early 1790s is analysed in the main figure, the archetypal German youth, Hermann. Confronted by the misery of German refugees from the left-bank territories in 1796, Hermann becomes the spokesman for a new sense of German identity. The refugee Dorothea, and her first finance, the German Jacobin who died in Paris, provide a perspective on the themes of German identity and individual freedom at this time. The national feelings Hermann expresses are based on a language and community in the German small town, rather than on earlier territorial or dynastic concepts of the German nation. The traditional literary form of the idyll is reformed through irony and parody into a modern, critical and self-reflexive work in which central themes of post-revolutionary society are foregrounded.
Download or read book Conversations with Eckermann written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literature and Belief written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Undiscovered Genre written by Michael L. Hadley and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the previously undocumented German Gothic Novel and its literary reception in Germany by analyzing all accessible no- vels of the «Ritter-, Räuber- und Schauerromantik» variety published between 1750-1800 against the background of a leading review journal of the day. After surveying traditional assumptions and prevalent suppositions concerning this largely unread but often discussed genre, the author examines a variety of hard data to place the rise of German Gothic in the 1790's after the publication and translation into German of its English counterpart. As well, the monograph points out certain social, religious and political implications of terror literature, and outlines further areas of research.
Download or read book Ireland and Germany written by Patrick O'Neill and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland and Germany is a study in the reciprocal literary relations of Ireland and Germany from the Middle Ages to the present day. After an initial survey of their literary and cultural relations before 1700, the literary impact of each culture upon the other during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries is separately surveyed and analysed in terms of national image, literary fortune, literary influence, and creative reception. A concluding reference section lists some 600 German translations of nineteenth and twentieth-century Irish writing.
Download or read book The Narrative Strategy of Wieland s Don Sylvio Von Rosalva written by W. Daniel Wilson and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first full-length study of Wieland's first novel (1764), the plot and narrative technique are examined interdependently. Rather than satirising the hero (as the narrator pretends), the plot instead justifies his belief that the world around him is a fairy tale. Several structures, references and inset narratives underline this self-conscious artificiality. Two fictive readers, one critical, the other uncritical, are portrayed in their relation to the narrator's claims of verisimilitude. An ideal reader hovers between these two attitudes, concretely manifesting the rococo principle of «play».
Download or read book The Individual in a New Society written by Irene Artes Hedlin and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The individual in a new society is a dominant theme in the literature of the German Democratic Republic. This study investigates the presentation and portrayal of the individual in his relationship to his work, his collective, and other aspects of socialist society in a number of selected «Erzählungen» and «Kurzgeschichten» written in the GDR between 1965 and 1972. Part A deals with the role of work, the collective, and the theme of change. Part B concentrates on three groups of individuals commonly portrayed: The emancipated woman, the outsider, and the «positive» hero.
