Nonnus of Panopolis in Context II: Poetry, Religion, and Society
Nonnus of Panopolis in Context II: Poetry, Religion, and Society

Author: Herbert Bannert

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-10-23

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 900435512X

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Nonnus of Panopolis in Upper-Egypt is the author of the 48 books of the last large scale mythological epic in antiquity, the Dionysiaca. The same author also wrote an epic poem on the life and times of Jesus Christ according to St John’s Gospel. Nonnus has an outstanding position in ancient literature being at the same time a pagan and a Christian author, living in a time when Christianity was common in the Roman empire, while pagan culture and traditional world views were still maintained. The volume is designed to cover literary, cultural and religious aspects of Nonnus’ poetry as well as to highlight the social and educational background of both the Dionysiaca and the Paraphrasis of the Gospel of St. John.

Delphi Complete Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
Delphi Complete Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2013-11-17

Total Pages: 5617

ISBN-13: 1908909633

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Widely regarded as the greatest German literary figure of the modern era, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a prolific author of novels, epic and lyric poetry, prose, plays, scientific treatises and autobiography. A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe achieved enormous success with his first novel, ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’. Inspiring the imagination of a generation, it was the first novel of the Sturm und Drang movement, which exalted nature, feeling, and human individualism, seeking to overthrow Rationalism. ‘Faust’, Goethe’s two-part dramatic masterpiece, is regarded as the supreme work of his later years and is often cited as Germany’s greatest contribution to world literature. Based on the traditional theme of the eponymous scholar making a pact with the demon Mephistopheles, the drama explores themes that encapsulate the fullest expression of the European Romantic movement, to which Goethe was an early and major contributor. This comprehensive eBook presents Goethe’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Goethe’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All of the novels and short fiction, with individual contents tables * Features rare works appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * All 12 plays and the complete poetry (tr. Edgar A. Bowring) * Includes the rare epic poem ‘Reynard the Fox’ (tr. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen) * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes a large selection Goethe’s non-fiction – available in no other collection * Includes Goethe’s travel writing and autobiography * Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Goethe’s contribution to literature * Features three biographies – discover Goethe’s incredible life * Johann Peter Eckermann’s seminal memoir ‘Conversations with Goethe’ (tr. John Oxenford) * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1794) Elective Affinities (1809) Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years (1821) The Shorter Fiction The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (1795) A Tale (1797) The Good Women (1797) The Plays The Wayward Lover (1768) The Fellow Culprits (1769) Goetz von Berlichingen (1773) Clavigo (1774) Egmont (1788) The Brother and Sister (1776) Stella (1776) Iphigenia in Tauris (1779) Torquato Tasso (1790) The Natural Daughter (1803) Faust: Part One (1808) Faust: Part Two (1832) The Poetry The Poems of Goethe Reynard the Fox (1794) The Non-Fiction The Siege of Mainz (1793) Theory of Colours (1810) Introduction to ‘The Propyläen’ (1798) Winckelmann and His Age (1805) Maxims and Reflections The Travel Writing Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy (1816) The Criticism Goethe the Writer by Ralph Waldo Emerson Goethe by C. E. Vaughan Goethe by John Cowper Powys Goethe’s Faust by George Santayana Shakespeare and Goethe by David Masson Goethe’s Theory of Colors by John Tyndall Extracts of Correspondence by Sir Walter Scott The Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life (1811) The Biographies Conversations with Goethe (1836) by Johann Peter Eckermann The Life of Goethe by Calvin Thomas (1886) Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe by James Sime (1888) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Poetry and Experience
Poetry and Experience

Author: Wilhelm Dilthey

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780691029283

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This is the fifth volume in a six-volume translation of the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher and historian of culture who has had a significant, and continuing, influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in a broad range of scholarly disciplines. In addition to his landmark works on the theories of history and the human sciences, Dilthey made important contributions to hermeneutics and phenomenology, aesthetics, psychology, and the methodology of the social sciences. This volume presents Dilthey's principal writings on aesthetics and the philosophical understanding of poetry, as well as representative essays of literary criticism. The essay "The Imagination of the Poet" (also known as his Poetics) is his most sustained attempt to examine the philosophical bearings of literature in relation to psychological and historical theory. Also included are "The Three Epochs of Modern Aesthetics and its Present Task," "Fragments for a Poetics," and two final essays discussing Goethe and Hölderlin. The latter are drawn from Das Erlebnis und die Dichtung, a volume that was acclaimed on publication as a classic of literary criticism and that continues to be a model for the geistesgeschichtliche approach to literary history.