Idylls & Realities - Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature

Informationen zum Autor J. P. Stern died in 1991. Klappentext Originally published in 1971, this book outlines the period of Germany's belated industrial revolution and suggests why German literature does not, before the 1880s, contribute to the tradition of European realism. It considers the alternatives to realism offered in three genres of drama, poetry and prose fiction. Zusammenfassung Originally published in 1971, this book outlines the period of Germany’s belated industrial revolution and suggests why German literature does not, before the 1880s, contribute to the tradition of European realism. It considers the alternatives to realism offered in three genres of drama, poetry and prose fiction. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Palms and Odalisques 2. Three Dramatists: Grillparzer, Hebbel and Büchner 3. Heinrich Heine's Contentious Muse 4. Eduard Mörike: Recollection and Inwardness 5. Adalbert Stifter: 'Erhebung without Motion' 6. Gottfried Keller: Realism and Fairy-Tale 7. Wilhelm Raabe: Home and Abroad 8. Theodor Fontane: The Realism of Assessment 9. Fiction and the Immutable Self 10. Friedrich Nietzsche: The Birth of a Myth?

Product details

• Authors: J P Stern, J. P. Stern, Stern J. P.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.02.2020
• EAN: 9780367441142
• ISBN: 978-0-367-44114-2
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: German Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism