A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine

A collection of new essays treating the most important aspects of the work of the most famous late Romantic, Heinrich Heine.

List of contents

Introduction - Roger F. Cook
Illusions Lost and Found: The Experiential World of Heine's Buch der Lieder - Michael Perraudin
A Walk on the Wild Side: Heine's Eroticism - Paul Peters
The Riddle of Love: Romantic Poetry and Historical Progress - Roger F. Cook
Nightingales Instead of Owls: Heine's Joyous Philosophy - Willi Goetschel
Eternal Return or Indiscernable Progress? Heine Conception of History after 1848 - Gerhard Hoehn
Heinrich Heine and the Discourse of Mythology - Paul Reitter
Troubled Apostate: Heine's Conversion and Its Consequences - Robert C. Holub
Heine and Jewish Culture: The Poetics of Appropriation - Jeffrey A. Grossman
Mathilde's Interruption: Archetypes of Modernity in Heine's Later Poetry - Anthony Phelan
Late Thoughts: Reconsiderations from the "Matratzengruft" - Joseph A. Kruse
Heine and Weimar -

Product details

• Authors: Roger F. Cook
• Assisted by: Roger Cook (Editor), Roger F. Cook (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9781571134493
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-449-3
• No. of pages: 388
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 572 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature L
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism