A Companion to the Works of Stefan George

New, wide-ranging essays on the controversial poet, who was both a harbinger of Modernism and a critic of modernity.

List of contents

Introduction - Jens Rieckmann
Stefan George's Poetics - William Waters
Stefan George's Early Works 1890-1895 - Robert Vilain
In Praise of Illusion: Das Jahr der Seele and Der Teppich des Lebens - Karla L. Schultz
In Zeiten der Wirren: Stefan George's Later Works - Michael Metzger
Stefan George and Two Types of Aestheticism - Jeffrey Todd
Master and Disciple: The George Circle - Michael Winkler
Stefan George and the Munich Cosmologists - Paul Bishop
George, Nietzsche, and Nazism - Ritchie Robertson
Übergeschlechtliche Liebe: Stefan George's Concept of Love - Marita Keilson-Lauritz

Summary

New, wide-ranging essays on the controversial poet, who was both a harbinger of Modernism and a critic of modernity.

Product details

• Authors: Jens Rieckmann, Jens Rieckmann
• Assisted by: Jens Rieckmann (Editor), Jens (Author) Rieckmann (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9781571134561
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-456-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 391 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture; Studies in German Literature,; Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; Studies in German Literature,; Studies in German Literature L
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies