Heine
Heine

Author: Ritchie Robertson

Publisher: Halban Publishers

Published: 2012-09-20

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 1905559542

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Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) is one of Germany's greatest writers. His agile mind and brilliant wit expressed themselves in lyrical and satirical poetry, travel writing, fiction, and essays on literature, art, politics, philosophy and history. He was a biting satirist, and a perceptive commentator on the world around him. One of his admirers, Friedrich Nietzsche, said of him: 'he possessed that divine malice without which perfection, for me, is unimaginable.' Heine was conscious of living after two revolutions. The French Revolution had changed the world forever. Heine experienced its effects when growing up in a Düsseldorf that formed part of the Napoleonic Empire, and when spending the latter half of his life in France. The other revolution was the transformation of German philosophy in the wake of Kant: Heine explained this revolution wittily and accessibly to the general public, emphasizing its hidden political significance. One of the great ambivalences of Heine's life was his attitude to being a German Jew in the age of partial emancipation. He converted to Protestantism, but bitterly regretted this decision. In compensation, he explored the Jewish past and present in an unfinished historical novel and in many of his poems.

Germany from the Outside
Germany from the Outside

Author: Laurie Ruth Johnson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2022-09-08

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 150137592X

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The nation-state is a European invention of the 18th and 19th centuries. In the case of the German nation in particular, this invention was tied closely to the idea of a homogeneous German culture with a strong normative function. As a consequence, histories of German culture and literature often are told from the inside-as the unfolding of a canon of works representing certain core values, with which every person who considers him or herself “German” necessarily must identify. But what happens if we describe German culture and its history from the outside? And as something heterogeneous, shaped by multiple and diverse sources, many of which are not obviously connected to things traditionally considered “German”? Emphasizing current issues of migration, displacement, systemic injustice, and belonging, Germany from the Outside explores new opportunities for understanding and shaping community at a time when many are questioning the ability of cultural practices to effect structural change. Located at the nexus of cultural, political, historiographical, and philosophical discourses, the essays in this volume inform discussions about next directions for German Studies and for the Humanities in a fraught era.

Heine the Tragic Satirist
Heine the Tragic Satirist

Author: S. S. Prawer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1961-01-02

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0521059909

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This 1961 book presents a full-length study of the later works of Heine, relating to Heine's life the underlying themes in his poetry.

Valiant Heart
Valiant Heart

Author: Philip Kossoff

Publisher: Associated University Presses

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780845347621

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Depicts the life of the distinguished German author, Heinrich Heine, discusses his romances and friendships, and analyzes his poetry and prose.

Reading Heinrich Heine
Reading Heinrich Heine

Author: Anthony Phelan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-03-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1139460706

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This book is a comprehensive study of the nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine. Anthony Phelan examines the complete range of Heine's work, from the early poetry and 'Pictures of Travel' to the last poems, including personal polemic and journalism. Phelan provides original and detailed readings of Heine's major poetry and throws fresh light on his virtuoso political performances that have too often been neglected by critics. Through his critical relationship with Romanticism, Heine confronted the problem of modernity in startlingly original ways that still speak to the concerns of post-modern readers. Phelan highlights the importance of Heine for the critical understanding of modern literature, and in particular the responses to Heine's work by Adorno, Kraus and Benjamin. Heine emerges as a figure of immense European significance, whose writings need to be seen as a major contribution to the articulation of modernity.

Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine
Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine

Author: Ritchie Robertson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-11-12

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0199571589

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A study of eighteenth- and early nineteeenth-century poetry in English, French and German, focusing on the mock epic (from Pope's Dunciad to Byron's Don Juan) as a critique of serious epic poetry and also as a literary means of exploring a wide range of sexual and religious issues in a humorous style.