Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> European - German

A century before psychoanalytic discourse codified a scientific language to describe the landscape of the mind, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explored the paradoxes of an interior self separate from a conscious self. Though long acknowledged by the developers of depth psychology and by its historians, Goethe's literary rendering of interiority has not been the subject of detailed analysis in itself. Goethe's Allegories of Identity examines how Goethe created the essential bridge between the psychological insights of his contemporary, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the psychoanalytic...

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803) is one of the most important figures in the history of German literature. He is seen as paving the way for the age of sentimentalism, Sturm und Drang, and the literature of experience. Klopstock was an ingenious linguistic innovator, and he established a body of work of lasting significance with his epic "The Messiah," and with his odes, dramas and poetic writings. With his wide network of connections with Enlightenment poets and thinkers, he was a focus of the intellectual world of his age.

The Hamburg Klopstock Edition is the first complete...

A concise and close reading of the imagery in the work of the vital German poet whose comic-poetic survey of the world is as alive today as when he made it.

In der Forschung ist die Wirkungsgeschichte des umstrittenen und wegen seiner Homosexualitat stigmatisierten Autors schon mehrfach thematisiert worden, aber langst sind nicht alle Kapitel aufgehellt, und selbst dort, wo das Terrain erschlossen erscheint, gilt es Vorurteile zu revidieren und noch manche Lucke zu fullen. Auf diese Situation antworten die Beitrage des vorliegenden Bandes, der sein spezifisches Profil auch dadurch gewinnt, dass er die Verbindung Platens zu seiner Wahlheimat Italien hervorhebt und neben der deutschen die meist vergessene italienische Platen-Rezeption...