Download or read book Men Myths and Movements in German Literature written by William Rose and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men myths and movements in German literature written by William Rose and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Of Gods and Men written by Pratibha Bhattacharya and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Comparative Study Of Germanic Myths And The Marathi Myths - 4 Thought Provoking Chapters - Introduction - Odin And Other Gods - Aai Jagdamba - Myth And Ethnology - 2 Appendices - References - Index.
Download or read book Idylls Realities written by J. P. Stern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1971, this book outlines the period of Germany’s belated industrial revolution and suggests why German literature does not, before the 1880s, contribute to the tradition of European realism. It considers the alternatives to realism offered in three genres of drama, poetry and prose fiction. The book closely analyses specific texts, both in the original and in translation, with comparisons with non-German works.
Download or read book Heinrich Heine written by Hans Kohn and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teutonic Myth And Legend written by Donald A. MacKenzie and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the myths and legends of the Teutonic peoples--Norsemen, Goths, Vandals, Burgundians, Franks, Angles, Saxons, and all the other Germanic tribes whose descendants now occupy England, Northern France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. The volume might have been called Northern European Myth and Legend. It is the body of folk tales, epics and religious beliefs which all Anglo-Saxons have inherited directly from their ancestors, and find most deeply embedded in every-day words and thoughts such as names for the days of the week, names recalling the gods and goddesses of our forefathers. Contents: PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I - Story of Creation CHAPTER II - The Nine Worlds CHAPTER III - The Deeds of Odin CHAPTER IV - How Evil entered Asgard CHAPTER V - The Winter War CHAPTER VI - Triumph of Love CHAPTER VII - The Lost Sword of Victory CHAPTER VIII - Fall of Asgard CHAPTER IX - The Gods Reconciled CHAPTER X - Loke's Evil Progeny CHAPTER XI - Thor's Great Fishing CHAPTER XII - The City of Enchantments CHAPTER XIII - Thor in Peril CHAPTER XIV - The Great Stone Giant CHAPTER XV - Balder the Beautiful CHAPTER XVI - The Binding of Loke CHAPTER XVII - The Dusk of the Gods CHAPTER XVIII - The Coming of Beowulf CHAPTER XIX - Conflict with Demons CHAPTER XX - Beowulf and the Dragon CHAPTER XXI - Hother and Balder CHAPTER XXII - The Traditional Hamlet CHAPTER XXIII - Hamlet's Storm-mill CHAPTER XXIV - Land of the Not-dead and many Marvels CHAPTER XXV - The Doom of the Volsungs CHAPTER XXVI - How Sigmund was Avenged CHAPTER XXVII - Helgi Hundingsbane CHAPTER XXVIII - Sigurd the Dragon Slayer CHAPTER XXIX - Brynhild and Gudrun CHAPTER XXX - The Last of the Volsungs CHAPTER XXXI - Gudrun's Vengeance CHAPTER XXXII - Siegfried and the Nibelungs CHAPTER XXXIII - The Promise of Kriemhild CHAPTER XXXIV - How Brunhild and Kriemhild were won CHAPTER XXXV - The Betrayal of Siegfried CHAPTER XXXVI - The Nibelungen Tragedy CHAPTER XXXVII - Dietrich of Bern CHAPTER XXXVIII - The Land of Giants CHAPTER XXXIX - The Wonderful Rose Garden CHAPTER XL - Virginal, Queen of the Mountains CHAPTER XLI - Dietrich in Exile CHAPTER XLII - The King's Homecoming
Download or read book The Lay of the Nibelung Men written by Arthur S. Way and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IF we accept as our definition of an Epic:—(a) A long poem, (b) of an interest not less than national, describing (c) in noble language (d) a series of naturally and organically connected actions (e) of heroic actors, we shall find that, while we must deny the name to some so-called epics, we have to thank the spirit, the imagination, the genius, of the Middle Ages for two great epics.
Download or read book Lycanthropy in German Literature written by Peter Arnds and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lycanthropy in German Literature argues that as a symbol of both power and parasitism, the human wolf of the Germanic Middle Ages is iconic to the representation of the persecution of undesirables in the German cultural imagination from the early modern age to the post-war literary scene.
Download or read book Minos and the Moderns written by Theodore Ziolkowski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minos and the Moderns considers three mythological complexes that enjoyed a unique surge of interest in early twentieth-century European art and literature: Europa and the bull, the minotaur and the labyrinth, and Daedalus and Icarus. All three are situated on the island of Crete and are linked by the figure of King Minos. Drawing examples from fiction, poetry, drama, painting, sculpture, opera, and ballet, Minos and the Moderns is the first book of its kind to treat the role of the Cretan myths in the modern imagination. Beginning with the resurgence of Crete in the modern consciousness in 1900 following the excavations of Sir Arthur Evans, Theodore Ziolkowski shows how the tale of Europa-in poetry, drama, and art, but also in cartoons, advertising, and currency-was initially seized upon as a story of sexual awakening, then as a vehicle for social and political satire, and finally as a symbol of European unity. In contast, the minotaur provided artists ranging from Picasso to Dürrenmatt with an image of the artist's sense of alienation, while the labyrinth suggested to many writers the threatening sociopolitical world of the twentieth century. Ziolkowski also considers the roles of such modern figures as Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud; of travelers to Greece and Crete from Isadora Duncan to Henry Miller; and of the theorists and writers, including T. S. Eliot and Thomas Mann, who hailed the use of myth in modern literature. Minos and the Moderns concludes with a summary of the manners in which the economic, aesthetic, psychological, and anthropological revisions enabled precisely these myths to be taken up as a mirror of modern consciousness. The book will appeal to all readers interested in the classical tradition and its continuing relevance and especially to scholars of Classics and modern literatures.
Download or read book The Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth century German Drama written by Brian Murdoch and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death still comes to Everyman, but this study of three twentieth-century German plays shows the harder challenge of living without salvation in an age of war and unprecedented mass destruction. Death comes to everyone, and in the late-medieval morality play of Everyman the familiar skeleton forces the universalized central figure to come to terms with this. Only his inner resources, in the forms of Good Deeds and Knowledge, ensure that he repents and is redeemed. Three important twentieth-century German plays echo Everyman - Toller's Hinkemann, Borchert's The Man Outside, and Frisch's The Arsonists/Firebugs - but the unprecedented scale of killing in the First and Second World Wars changed the view of death, while in the Cold War the nuclear destruction literally of everyone became a possibility. Brian Murdoch traces the heritage of Everyman in the three plays in terms of dramatic effect, changes in the image of Death, and especially the problem of living with existential guilt. Death, now over-fed, still has to be faced, but Everyman has the harder problem of living with the awareness of human wickedness without the possibility of salvation. All three plays have tended to be viewed in their specific historical contexts, but by viewing them less rigidly and as part of a long dramatic tradition, Murdoch shows that all present a message of lasting and universal significance. They pose directly to the theater audience questions not just of how to cope with death, but how to cope with life.
Download or read book The Case of Hans Henny Jahnn written by Thomas Freeman and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2001 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of the literary criticism on the works of the controversial twentieth-century German writer Hans Henny Jahnn.
Download or read book Goethe and the Philosopher s Stone written by Alice Pearl Raphael and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1965, this study examines the concealed meanings in the second part of Faust, often considered obscure. It is of value not only to students of literature but also comparative religions, as it deals with Goethe’s knowledge of ancient myths, mysteries and Hellenistic religions. It is of value too, to those interested in alchemy as it traces the many alchemical references in Faust. The book gives a psychological interpretation of elements of Goethe’s personal life and work, which succeeds in making the man and the veiled references in his most profound work accessible to the modern reader.
Download or read book Oswald Von Wolkenstein written by Alan Robertshaw and published by A. Kummerle. This book was released on 1977 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Work on Myth written by Hans Blumenberg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1988-03-18 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich examination of how we inherit and transform myths, Hans Blumenberg continues his study of the philosophical roots of the modern world. Work on Myth is in five parts. The first two analyze the characteristics of myth and the stages in the West's work on myth, including long discussions of such authors as Freud, Joyce, Cassirer, and Valéry. The latter three parts present a comprehensive account of the history of the Prometheus myth, from Hesiod and Aeschylus to Gide and Kafka. This section includes a detailed analysis of Goethe's lifelong confrontation with the Prometheus myth, which is a unique synthesis of "psychobiography" and history of ideas. Work on Myth is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.
Download or read book The Jewish Question in German Literature 1749 1939 written by Ritchie Robertson and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2001-10-18 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish Question in German Literature, 1749-1939 is an erudite and searching literary study of the uneasy position of the Jews in Germany and Austria from the first pleas for Jewish emancipation during the Enlightenment to the eve of the Holocaust. Trying to avoid hindsight, and drawing on a wide range of literary texts, Ritchie Robertson offers a close examination of attempts to construct a Jewish identity suitable for an increasingly secular world. He examines both literary portrayals of Jews by Gentile writers - whether antisemitic, friendly, or ambivalent - and efforts to reinvent Jewish identities by the Jews themselves, in response to antisemitism culminating in Zionism. No other study by a single author deals with German-Jewish relations so comprehensively and over such a long period of literary history. Robertson's new work will prove stimulating for anyone interested in the modern Jewish experience, as well as for scholars and students of German fiction, prose, and political culture.
Download or read book German Literature and the First World War The Anti War Tradition written by Brian Murdoch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period immediately following the end of the First World War witnessed an outpouring of artistic and literary creativity, as those that had lived through the war years sought to communicate their experiences and opinions. In Germany this manifested itself broadly into two camps, one condemning the war outright; the other condemning the defeat. Of the former, Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front remains the archetypal example of an anti-war novel, and one that has become synonymous with the Great War. Yet the tremendous and enduring popularity of Remarque’s work has to some extent eclipsed a plethora of other German anti-war writers, such as Hans Chlumberg, Ernst Johannsen and Adrienne Thomas. In order to provide a more rounded view of German anti-war literature, this volume offers a selection of essays published by Brian Murdoch over the past twenty years. Beginning with a newly written introduction, providing the context for the volume and surveying recent developments in the subject, the essays that follow range broadly over the German anti-war literary tradition, telling us much about the shifting and contested nature of the war. The volume also touches upon subjects such as responsibility, victimhood, the problem of historical hiatus in the production and reception of novels, drama, poetry, film and other literature written during the war, in the Weimar Republic, and in the Third Reich. The collection also underlines the potential dangers of using novels as historical sources even when they look like diaries. One essay was previously unpublished, two have been augmented, and three are translated into English for the first time. Taken together they offer a fascinating insight into the cultural memory and literary legacy of the First World War and German anti-war texts.
Download or read book Chips from a German Workshop written by F. Max Müller and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-07 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
