Download or read book The Reception of Pablo Neruda s Works in the German Democratic Republic written by Bonnie A. Beckett and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study examines in detail the reception accorded to the works of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda in the GDR. The initial phase of the transmission process took place in the late 1930s and early 1940s when Neruda established contact with leftwing exiles during the Spanish Civil War, subsequently in Mexico City, and in occupied Germany after World War II. The core chapters correlate the changing cultural and political situation in the GDR with the introduction and critical adumbration of Neruda's output. A separate chapter deals with the stage productions of his works, and the conclusion traces briefly the reception of Neruda's works in the Federal Republic of Germany, highlighting the initial contrast and recent convergence of Marxist and non-Marxist criticism of Neruda.
Download or read book Pablo Neruda written by Hensley Charles Woodbridge and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1988 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Late Poetry of Pablo Neruda written by Christopher Perriam and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goethe s R mische Elegien written by Eva Dessau Bernhardt and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In restoring the two suppressed and neglected elegies to Goethe's first lyric cycle (1788-1790), the author makes clear that their inclusion alters its focus and tone, changes its emphases, and gives it greater continuity. While the protagonist is treated as a fictional persona of the author, art (the poet and creative activity) is posited as a major theme, while the themes of Rome and mythology support, enhance, ennoble, and give classical dimension to the central one, the creative process. Accordingly, a new scheme of organization emerges with Elegy XIII as the axis around which the poetic persona develops. Four elegies stand out as poetological elegies, poems of creative inspiration or artistic achievement.
Download or read book Techniques of Compression and Prefiguration in the Beginnings of Theodor Fontane s Novels written by Carol Hawkes Velardi and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodor Fontane repeatedly cited the beginning as key to a novel's construction and development, as exemplified in a letter to his publisher in 1880: «Beim richtigen Aufbau muß in der ersten Seite der Keim des Ganzen stecken». Through close reading and analysis of the beginnings of five Fontane «Gesellschaftsromane», this work focuses on Fontane's varied techniques of compression and prefiguration and traces their developing refinement throughout his career as novelist and social critic.
Download or read book Difficulties of Saying I written by Robert K. Shirer and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most ambitious novels of Christa Wolf and Uwe Johnson, Kindheitsmuster and Jahrestage, have remarkable similarities. In both novels a woman narrator seeks to recall her childhood, spent in the Germany of the Third Reich, in the hope of finding some connection between patterns of behavior developed there and her own troubled self. Neither narrator finds a traditional first-person narration possible, and each develops a distinctive and unusual narrative voice. The present study provides a detailed comparative reading of the two novels and investigates the problem of a narrator/protagonist alienated from herself by time, trauma, and ideology.
Download or read book The Faust Legend written by Marguerite De Huszar Allen and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author is a faculty member of Evanton township High School.
Download or read book Imagery in Conrad Ferdinand Meyer s Prose Works written by Tiiu V. Laane and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines in detail the role of imagery in Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's prose works. It shows how intricately formed patterns of imagery impart to Meyer's prose its characteristic flavor and set him apart among the poetic realists of his period. To start, the linguistic forms of Meyer's metaphorical language are analyzed. Seperate chapters then probe the rich clusters of imagery and focus on their characterizing and structural functions. They reveal how images produce oblique perspectives that give rise to an ironic shadow play between appearance and reality. The conclusion concentrates on Der Heilige, the single work that best exemplifies how images are instrumental in creating the complex weave of Meyer's narrative. The nature of Meyer's imagery points to the new wave of symbolism which was soon to make its impact on German literature.
Download or read book Beyond the Zeus Principle written by Ingo Roland Stoehr and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and concise survey of the role familial allegiances play in the French, American, and German novel (with emphasis on the latter), specifically focusing on literary images of the father, of the mother, and of the child, and their interaction in the literary image of the family. Twelve major authors are discussed in detail, spanning four literary periods: Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, and contemporary literature, with emphasis on the contemporary. It further addresses not only the mainstream literature but also three distinct minority discourses in German literature: feminist, homosexual, and Jewish. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Eugene O Neill written by Ward B. Lewis and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reputation which O'Neill enjoyed in Germany is treated as well as the critical and popular response to his individual works. Greeted during the thirties as a very American dramatist and a revolutionary influence in the theater of his own country, the playwright was seen abroad as a conservative successor to the European tradition of Strindberg, Ibsen, and Hauptmann. After World War II, however, all this changed. He was heard then as the voice from America that provided existential hope to an audience beset by economic hardship, the anxieties of the cold war, feelings of guilt and uncertainty. Extremely popular, his works were performed more frequently during the decades of the fifties and thereafter than any other foreign dramatist except Shakespeare.
Download or read book The Apprenticeship Novel written by Randolph P. Shaffner and published by New York : P. Lang. This book was released on 1984 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that a young person can become adept in the art of life by passing through definite stages, until at last he becomes a master, lives at the core of the apprenticeship novel. Recognized among German critics as the «Bildungsroman», this type of novel has yet to be adequately defined on a grand scale for the English reader despite nearly two centuries of its development. In an attempt to describe the apprenticeship novel as a modifiable type in Western literature, Mr. Shaffner combines a theoretical stance with analyses of three concrete examples drawn from over a hundred potential candidates.
Download or read book Brecht 100 written by John Rouse and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating Bertolt Brecht's centenary year, this volume presents selected papers from the 1998 International Brecht Society Symposium in San Diego. The contributors discuss theater and politics, alienation effects and gestus, Brecht's poetry, Brecht and music, revisiting the Lehrstück, and Brecht in the Americas. Distributed for the International Brecht Society In English and German ISSN 0734-8665
Download or read book Brecht Jahrbuch written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Garden and Labyrinth of Time written by Gerald Gillespie and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The themes of «erring, » «education, » and «development» were often linked with the master-images of the garden and labyrinth in Renaissance writing. Humanist concerns about natural order, temporality, and history could be situated in these poetic realms insofar as they symbolized fluctuating aspects of a more complex reality. The imaginative use of the garden and labyrinth is widely detectable in the generic structures and stylistic patterns of the age.
Download or read book From History to Myth written by Mary A. Cicora and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book places Wagner's Tannhäuser within the German literary tradition. Separate chapters of the book are devoted to discussions of the medieval sources and the analogous works by Ludwig Tieck, E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Heinrich Heine. These studies, which converge on Wagner's opera, not only highlight various aspects or facets of Wagner's Tannhäuser, but at the same time show the transmission of the Tannhäuser and song contest legends into the nineteenth century and how Wagner combined them.
Download or read book Vision and Revision written by Karen Drabek Vogt and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the concept of inspiration in Thomas Mann's major novels and the redemptive possibilities of the artist vis-a-vis his society. Mann's high moral seriousness is revealed in his belief that the artist embodies the society's concealed illness and through his art provides the possibility of a healing catharsis.
Download or read book Poems of the West and the East written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This English verse translation of Goethe's West-Eastern Divan aims to give English-readers a fair indication of the themes, quality and flavour of Goethe's major cycle of lyric poetry. As far as possible it remains faithful to Goethe's metrical and rhyming patterns. The Divan's wealth of earnest depth and passion is conveyed with an often casual simplicity of vocabulary and expression. It moves through changing moods from which wit and grace and good humour are never long absent when the mind is, as in these poems, at play and in command. Goethe described this complexity as «Unconditional submission to the unfathomable will of God, serene conspectus of the activities of this earth, mobile and always in circles and spirals, love, inclination hovering between two worlds, all the real purified, dissolving in symbol». The English translation seeks to keep to the poetic tones in Goethe's seemingly effortless words.
