Literature and the Image of Man: Volume 2, Communication in Society

ISBN-13: 9781138527270 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 359 str.

Leo Lowenthal

Opis

This volume's predominant theme is bourgeois mentality and its historical development

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Preface: Social Meanings in Literature

Part I: Studies on the European Drama and Novel from the Renaissance to the Threshold of Modernity

1 The Spanish Dramatists
Lope de Vega, 1562 1635
Calderon, 1600 1681

2 Cervantes, 1547 1616
Mobility: Sancho Panza
Creativity: Dulcinea
Property: The Gypsies
Justice: Don Quixote

3 Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Concept of Human Nature
Five Themes on the Island
Secularized Humility

Excursus A: The Tempest, Act I, Scene 1

4 The Classical French Theater
Corneille, 1606 1684
Racine, 1639 1699
Moliere, 1622 1673

5 From Werther to Wilhelm Meister
Individualism and the Middle Class
Werther: The Dislocated Individual
Wilhelm Meister: The Integrated Individual
World Literature and Popular Culture

6 Henrik Ibsen, 1828 1906
Private Life and Social Forces
The Dilemma of Freedom and Necessity

Excursus B: Note on August Strindberg

7 Knut Hamsun, 1860 1952
Nature
Hero Worship
Urban Society
Nihilism

Part II: Studies on the German Novel in the Nineteenth Century

8 Romanticism: Revolution Repressed

9 "Young Germany": Prehistory of Bourgeois Consciousness

10 Eduard Mo;rike: Troubled Embourgeoisement

11 Gustav Freytag: Bourgeois Materialism

12 Friedrich Spielhagen: Bourgeois Idealism

13 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer: Apologia of the Upper Class

14 Gottfried Keller: Bourgeois Repression

Afterword: From Helmut Dubiel, Editor of the German Edition of This Volume

O autorze

Leo Lowenthal