Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> European - German

Coats of arms, clothing and armour are easier to manipulate than passports or ID cards. Medieval narratives are full of scenes in which there is a problem in clearly identifying who and what is who. From these, it is possible to reconstruct models of recognising the other, which alienate us today, but reveal much about ideas of perception and identity at the time. The book shows how courtly literature uses literary games with these models both to confirm and continually to question central premisses of feudal culture.

Neidhart is seen alongside Walther von der Vogelweide as the most original and effective medieval poet. Whether it is Nature personified, in which Summer and Winter beat each other up for the blossom garment of the forest, or the knight hungry for love who on his expeditions into the countryside offends against courtly values in Neidhart s work, the standards of classical courtly love poetry are parodied. His oeuvre is contained in 25 extant manuscripts from the 13th 15th centuries. Working from the original manuscripts, the author orders and assesses the song collection using criteria...

Gottfried Keller und Theodor Fontane gehoren zu den wichtigsten Autoren des Realismus. Die vergleichende Lekture beider Erzahler ergibt ein facettenreiches Spiel von Korrespondenzen und Differenzen. Zugleich lasst sich beispielhaft Einblick gewinnen in die kunstlerischen Positionen und asthetischen Verfahren der Zeit nach 1848 bis zur Ausdifferenzierung der Moderne um 1900.

Der Band versammelt die Beitrage des internationalen Symposiums in Zurich 2006 u. a. von Peter von Matt, Hugo Aust, Michael Andermatt, Roland Berbig, Gabriele Radecke, Peter Utz und Karl Pestalozzi.

In past centuries British attitudes toward German culture oscillated between hostility and indifference. For a brief period of 20 years between the two World Wars, this pattern changed dramatically, with a flood of German books in translation threatening to engulf the British book market and triggering violently emotional reactions in the literary pages of the popular press. Reviewers of these books are shown here to have harbored a deep amibivalence toward an alien German culture. The reviews of these years reveal a dialectical tug of war between the established Hun stereotype of Germany...

A heroic undertaking, this extremely useful encyclopedia covers the literatures of all five Nordic countries as well as Faroese, Inuit, and Sami....is especially valuable in that it brings to light the sophistication and richness of literature in Finland and Iceland...highly recommended. "Library Journal"

"The Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature" is the only English-language work of its kind. Unlike literary handbooks that cover a single literature, the dictionary covers the literature of the five Nordic countries from the Icelandic sagas to authors active in the 1980s. In addition to...

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This is the only English-language book to deal in depth with Austrian women writers of the postwar and contemporary period. It is a comparative study of the works of Marlen Haushofer, Ingeborg Bachmann, Barbara Frischmuth, Elfriede Jelinek, and Brigitte Schwaiger. Their works are examined in light of their criticism of women's position in Austrian society, the writers' relationship to feminism, and the influence of the change in women's status on their literature. Vansant's introduction provides a broad historical overview and discusses some of the factors influencing the development of...