Will Hasty

James N. Hardin

Essays on works produced during the emergence of the German vernacular as the medium of literary expression; as Germanic tribes, absorbing the culture of the Mediterranean peoples, gained the ability to write about themselves and to record their own history.

German Writers and Works of the Early Middle Ages, 800-1170

David Hill

Carefully focused essays on major aspects of one of the most significant German literary movements, the Storm and Stress.

Literature of the Sturm und Drang

Malcolm Kevin Read

Brian Murdoch

The first volume of this set views the development of writing in German with respect to broad aspects of the early Germanic past, drawing on a range of disciplines including archaeology, anthropology, and philology in addition to literary history. The first part considers the whole concept of Germanic antiquity and the way in which it has been approached, examines classical writings about Germanic origins and the earliest Germanic tribes, and looks at the two great influences on the early Germanic world: the confrontation with the Roman Empire and the displacement of Germanic religion by Christianity. A chapter on orality -- the earliest stage of all literature -- provides a bridge to the earliest Germanic writings. The second part of the book is devoted to written Germanic -- rather than German -- materials, with a series of chapters looking first at the Runic inscriptions, then at Gothic, the first Germanic language to find its way onto parchment (in Ulfilas's Bible translation). The topic turns finally to what we now understand as literature, with general surveys of the three great areas of early Germanic literature: Old Norse, Old English, and Old High and Low German. A final chapter is devoted to the Old Saxon Heliand.Contributors: T. M. Andersson, Heinrich Beck, Graeme Dunphy, Klaus D wel, G. Ronald Murphy, Adrian Murdoch, Brian Murdoch, Rudolf Simek, Herwig Wolfram.Brian Murdoch and Malcolm Read both teach in the German Department of the University of Stirling in Scotland.

Early Germanic Literature and Culture

Wolfgang Elfe

Contains alphabetically arranged essays that provide biographical and critical information about significant contemporary German fiction writers; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.

Second series

Contemporary German Fiction Writers

Barbara Becker-Cantarino

New essays tracing the 18th-century literary revival in German-speaking lands and the cultural developments that accompanied it.

The Enlightenment and Sensibility

German Literature of the Eighteenth Century

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German Writers and Works of the High Middle Ages, 1170-1280

The purpose of this collection of essays by eminent American & European scholars is to provide an overview of the state of research on the history & theory of the Bildungsromane & our understanding of the term.

Essays on the Bildungsroman

Reflection and Action

German Fiction Writers, 1885-1913

Profiles nearly thirty German playwrights from the period 1889-1918, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail.

Twentieth-century German Dramatists, 1889-1918

Ernst Grabovszki

Insightful essays on the striking resemblances between the Viennese literary/cultural scene in 1900 and 100 years later.

Continuities and Discontinuities Around 1900 and 2000

Literature in Vienna at the Turn of the Centuries

New essays on the first flowering of German literature, in the High Middle Ages and especially during the period 1180-1230.

German Literature of the High Middle Ages

Dennis F. Mahoney

Sharply focused essays on the most significant aspects of German Romanticism.

James N. Hardin

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