Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> European - German

Die neue englischsprachige Reihe zur Mediavistik strebt eine methodisch reflektierte, anspruchsvolle Verbindung von Text- und Kulturwissenschaft an. Sie widmet sich den kulturellen Grundthemen der mittelalterlichen Welt aus der Perspektive der Literatur- und Geschichtswissenschaft. 'Grundthemen' sind die kulturpragenden Denkbilder, Weltanschauungen, Sozialstrukturen und Alltagsbedingungen des mittelalterlichen Lebens, also z. B. Kindheit und Alter, Sexualitat, Religion, Medizin, Rituale, Arbeit, Armut und Reichtum, Aberglauben, Erde und Kosmos, Stadt und Land, Krieg, Emotionen,...

New Norse Studies, edited by Jeffrey Turco, gathers twelve original essays engaging aspects of Old Norse Icelandic literature that continue to kindle the scholarly imagination in the twenty-first century. The assembled authors examine the arriere-scene of saga literature; the nexus of skaldic poetry and saga narrative; medieval and post-medieval gender roles; and other manifestations of language, time, and place as preserved in Old Norse Icelandic texts. This volume will be welcomed not only by the specialist and by scholars in adjacent fields but also by avid general readers,...

In Benjamin's Library, Jane O. Newman offers, for the first time in any language, a reading of Walter Benjamin's notoriously opaque work, Origin of the German Tragic Drama that systematically attends to its place in discussions of the Baroque in Benjamin's day. Taking into account the literary and cultural contexts of Benjamin's work, Newman recovers Benjamin s relationship to the ideologically loaded readings of the literature and political theory of the seventeenth-century Baroque that abounded in Germany during the political and economic crises of the Weimar...

This study develops an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the cultural history of the German Democratic Republic, examining the interaction between intellectuals and Party functionaries from a literary and historical perspective. Divided into three case studies, the work focuses on writers positioned along a spectrum of conformity and dissent and who had quite different relationships to political power: Hermann Kant, Stefan Heym and Elfriede Bruning.
Drawing on and comparing unpublished archive material, autobiography and the literary output of the three named writers, this...

""The unsurpassed heuristic work of medieval German studies - indispensable for all medieval disciplines including even the history of medicine. The work not only extensively documents the current state of research within the defined framework, the changes in the articles between Vol. 1 and Vol. 11 reveal how research and presentation methods have become more precise. That is why this lexicon also has high historical value for the discipline, which would be worth investigating - and this will surely occur one day."
Prof. Dr. Johannes Janota

"This basic, comprehensive reference...

This book is a formal and functional study of the three distinct meters of Old Norse eddic poetry, fornyroislag, malahattr, and ljooahattr. It provides a systematic account of these archaic meters, both synchronic and diachronic, and from a comparative Germanic perspective; particularly concerned with Norse innovations in metrical practice, Suzuki explores how and why the three meters were shaped in West Scandinavia through divergent reorganization of the Common Germanic metrical system. The book constitutes the first comprehensive work on the meters of Old Norse...

Der Band versammelt 21 handbuchartig angelegte Beitrage zur Editionsgeschichte deutschsprachiger vorwiegend literarischer Autoren sowie einen Uberblick uber die Geschichte der elektronischen Edition. Unter Einbezug der allgemeinen Geschichte der germanistischen Edition bietet der Band in den einzelnen historischen Langsschnitten sowohl Orientierung in der jeweiligen Ausgabenlandschaft zu einem Autor als auch Verknupfungen mit den historischen und gegenwartigen Positionen der Editionsphilologie. Die Beitrage lassen sich somit als Bausteine zu einer groeren Geschichte der Edition...

Als einmaliger Glucksfall innerhalb der fruhmittelalterlichen Textuberlieferung ist schon fruher die Erhaltung des Otfridschen Handexemplars in Gestalt der Wiener Handschrift (Cod. 2687) gewurdigt worden. Die Heidelberger Handschrift (Pal. Lat. 52) setzt dazu eine weitere Pointe. Sie stammt nicht nur aus Otfrids Skriptorium, sie ist sogar von den gleichen Hauptmitarbeitern wie in V direkt kopiert und in vielfacher Hinsicht verfeinert und kunstlerisch weiterentwickelt worden. Dies geschah wohl noch zu Lebzeiten Otfrids im letzten Viertel des 9. Jahrhunderts, allerdings ohne Korrekturen des...

While the first decade after the fall of the Berlin wall was marked by the challenges of unification and the often difficult process of reconciling East and West German experiences, many Germans expected that the "new century" would achieve "normalization." The essays in this volume take a closer look at Germany's new normalcy and argue for a more nuanced picture that considers the ruptures as well as the continuities. Germany's new generation of writers is more diverse than ever before, and their texts often not only speak of a Germany that is multicultural but also take a more playful...

After Franz Kafka died in 1924, his novels and short stories were published in ways that downplayed both their author's roots in Prague and his engagement with Jewish tradition and language, so as to secure their place in the German literary canon. Now, nearly a century after Kafka began to create his fictions, Germany, Israel, and the Czech Republic lay claim to his legacy. "Kafka's Jewish Languages" brings Kafka's stature as a specifically Jewish writer into focus.

David Suchoff explores the Yiddish and modern Hebrew that inspired Kafka's vision of tradition. Citing the Jewish sources...