Dictionary of Literary Biography
Author: James N. Hardin
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780810309135
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German Baroque Writers, 1580-1660
Author: James N. Hardin
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays on writers of German baroque literature, primarily prose fiction and poetry in German and in Latin, including religious tracts, works by theologians and mystics, as well as a vast body of alchemical, astrological and quasi-scientific literature published in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Many important works during the first half of the seventeenth century are adaptations or translations of works from other languages.
German Secular Song-books of the Mid-seventeenth Century: An Examination of the Texts in Collections of Songs Published in the German-language Area Between 1624 and 1660
Author: Anthony J. Harper
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-05
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1351752480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title was first published in 2003. The secular song of the 17th century represents a relatively neglected area of German culture. In this book, Anthony J. Harper first studies the songs of the two great models of the time, Martin Opitz and Paul Fleming, following this with an analysis of the song-books and collections from three regions: the North-East, Central Germany, and the North. The procedure is thus both historical and geographical. The texts of these songs are examined in relation to structural principles, thematic range and stylistic treatment. Harper establishes common features and regional variations of this genre, which involves love-poetry, songs of manners with colourful portrayals of everyday life, and comic songs in a lower stylistic register. Particular attention is paid to the work of Albert and Dach in Konigsberg, Finckelthaus, Schirmer, Krieger and Schoch in Leipzig and Dresden, and Rist, Voigtlander, Zesen, Greflinger and Stieler in the Hamburg region. Where appropriate, the book assesses the role of musical settings, while not seeking to offer technical insights into musical matters. Of value to scholars of German literature, this study should also be of interest to musicologists working on the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry
Author: Albrecht Classen
Publisher: DS Brewer
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781843840213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA considerable collection of German women's poetry in translation, results of ingenious archival research.
British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1660
Author: Edward A. Malone
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurvey of British-born writers who produced texts on rhetoric or logic between 1500 and 1660. Provides biographies meant to serve students and scholars of British literature who require information on educators, theologians, and statesmen who influenced and shaped the rhetorical culture that produced great works of literature.
Emblematic Tendencies in the Art and Literature of the Twentieth Century
Author: Anthony John Harper
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780852618219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEncyclopedia of German Literature
Author: Matthias Konzett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-05-11
Total Pages: 3105
ISBN-13: 1135941297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesigned to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.
The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany
Author: Neil Kenny
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2004-07-08
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780191556586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy did people argue about curiosity in France, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, so much more than today? Why was curiosity a fashionable topic in early modern conduct manuals, university dissertations, scientific treatises, sermons, newspapers, novellas, plays, operas, ballets, poems, from Corneille to Diderot, from Johann Valentin Andreae to Gottlieb Spizel? Universities, churches, and other institutions invoked curiosity in order to regulate knowledge or behaviour, to establish who should try to know or do what, and under what circumstances. As well as investigating a crucial episode in the history of knowledge, this study makes a distinctive contribution to historiographical debates about the nature of 'concepts'. Curiosity was constantly reshaped by the uses of it. And yet, strangely, however much people contested what curiosity was, they often agreed that what they were disagreeing about was one and the same thing.
Luise Gottsched the Translator
Author: Hilary Brown
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1571135103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy focusing on Luise Gottsched's extraordinary volume and range of translations, Hilary Brown sheds an entirely new light on Gottsched and her oeuvre. Critics have paid increasing attention to the oeuvre of Luise Gottsched (1713-62), Germany's first prominent woman of letters, but have neglected her lifelong work of translation, which encompassed over fifty volumes and an extraordinary range, from drama and poetry to philosophy, history, archaeology, even theoretical physics. This first comprehensive overview of Gottsched's translations places them in the context of eighteenth-century intellectual, literary, and cultural history, showing that they were part of an ambitious, progressive program undertaken with her famous husband to shape German culture during the Enlightenment. In doing so it casts Gottsched and her work in an entirely new light. Including chapters on all the main subject areas and genres from which Gottsched translated, it also explores the relationship between her translations and her original works, demonstrating that translation was central to her oeuvre. A bibliography of Gottsched's translations and source texts concludes the volume. Not only a major new addition to a growing body of research on the Gottscheds, the book will also be valuable reading for scholars interested more broadly in women's writing, the history of translation, and the literature and culture of the German (and European) Enlightenment. Hilary Brown is Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany
Author: Joy Wiltenburg
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2013-01-07
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 081393303X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the growth of printing in early modern Germany, crime quickly became a subject of wide public discourse. Sensational crime reports, often featuring multiple murders within families, proliferated as authors probed horrific events for religious meaning. Coinciding with heightened witch panics and economic crisis, the spike in crime fears revealed a continuum between fears of the occult and more mundane dangers. In Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany, Joy Wiltenburg explores the beginnings of crime sensationalism from the early sixteenth century into the seventeenth century and beyond. Comparing the depictions of crime in popular publications with those in archival records, legal discourse, and imaginative literature, Wiltenburg highlights key social anxieties and analyzes how crime texts worked to shape public perceptions and mentalities. Reports regularly featured familial destruction, flawed economic relations, and the apocalyptic thinking of Protestant clergy. Wiltenburg examines how such literature expressed and shaped cultural attitudes while at the same time reinforcing governmental authority. She also shows how the emotional inflections of crime stories influenced the growth of early modern public discourse, so often conceived in terms of rational exchange of ideas.
