Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> European - German

Als Fielding seinen Roman History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) mit einer Einlassung beginnt, die den Autor als Wirt beschreibt, der fur seine Gasten stets eine "bill of fare" bereithalten soll, hatte er damit einen Nerv der Zeit getroffen: Gleichermaen kann eine Speisekarte oder ein Spielplan damit gemeint sein. "An Author ought to consider himself, not as a Gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary Treat, but rather as one who keeps a public Ordinary, at which all Persons are welcome for their Money." Bekanntlich dominieren okonomische, merkantile und theatrale Diskurse...

This edition of the Middle High German epic presents a text close to the ms., but in which the orthography has been normalised to aid readability. It is based on the St Gallen Codex 857 (MS D), which is regarded as the most reliable text. Karl Lachmann s seminal edition of Parzival from 1833 was intended to present a text such as might have been encountered by an educated reader in the first half of the 13th century. This new edition moves closer towards realising this aim by keeping close to the oldest complete manuscript available and only making corrections where the manuscript text is...

Die Briefe vermitteln ein Bild von Brochs politischen Diskussionen mit Kahler im amerikanischen Exil. In ihnen geht es u.a. um den Eintritt der USA in den Zweiten Weltkrieg, die Gefahr der Atombombe fur die Menschheit, um den Kalten Krieg mit den Folgen der McCarthy-Ara, die Einstellung zu Deutschland und Osterreich in den Nachkriegsjahren und die Frage der Hilfe fur diese beiden Lander, die Grundung Israels und die Rolle des Intellektuellen allgemein. Zudem schildert Broch die Intentionen seiner Romane "Der Tod des Vergil" und "Die Schuldlosen" sowie seiner Studien zu den internationalen...

Friedrich Nietzsche's intellectual autobiography Ecce Homo has always been a controversial book. Nietzsche prepared it for publication just before he became incurably insane in early 1889, but it was held back until after his death, and finally appeared only in 1908. For much of the first century of its reception, Ecce Homo met with a sceptical response and was viewed as merely a testament to its author's incipient madness. This was hardly surprising, since he is deliberately outrageous with the 'megalomaniacal' self-advertisement of his chapter titles, and brazenly...

The series Studien zur deutschen Literatur (Studies in German Literature) presents outstanding analyses of German-speaking literature from the early modern period to the present day. It particularly embraces comparative, cultural and historical-epistemological questions and serves as a tradition-steeped forum for innovative literary research.

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To metaphorize the world as a theatre has been a common procedure since antiquity, but the use of this trope became particularly prominent and pregnant in early modern times, especially in England. Old and new applications of the "theatrum mundi" topos pervaded discourses, often allegorizing the deceitfulness and impermanence of this world as well as the futility of earthly strife. It was frequently woven into arguments against worldly amusements such as the stage: Commercial theatre was declared an undesirable competitor of God's well-ordered world drama.

Early modern dramatists...