Critical essays
Critical essays

Author: Hans-Joachim Hahn

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9783039110001

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Dieser Sammelband zu Gottfried Keller würdigt den 150. Jahrestag der Publikation des ersten Bandes der Leute von Seldwyla und berücksichtigt die neue historisch-kritische Ausgabe von Kellers Werken, herausgegeben unter der Leitung von Walter Morgenthaler (2000). Der Band enthält zwölf Beiträge von elf Autoren, die den Novellenzyklus von verschiedenen Seiten aus betrachten. Schwerpunkte dieser interdisziplinären Studie sind die philosophische Position Kellers, seine Ansichten zur Schweizer Ökonomie, zur Pädagogik und zu politischen Tagesfragen der Zeit. Etwa die Hälfte der Beiträge behandelt einzelne Novellen (Kleider machen Leute, Die mißbrauchten Liebesbriefe, Das verlorene Lachen, die beiden Vorreden), während weitere Aufsätze Kellers Realismus und seiner Erzähltechnik gewidmet sind. This book will take note of the 150th anniversary of part one of Keller's Seldwyla stories using the new critical edition of Die Leute von Seldwyla, published in 2000 by Walter Morgenthaler. Though intended for scholars of German literature, the study, containing twelve contributions by eleven authors, is interdisciplinary in nature and discusses the impact of German philosophy (Feuerbach, Vischer) on Keller's work as well as Keller's interest in economics, education and Swiss political life. About half the contributions focus on individual stories, in particular Kleider machen Leute, Die mißbrauchten Liebesbriefe and Das verlorene Lachen, while the remainder either comment on Keller's two prefaces to the Novellen or deal with overarching aspects such as Keller's realism and his narrative technique.

Gottfried Keller and His Critics
Gottfried Keller and His Critics

Author: Richard R. Ruppel

Publisher: Camden House

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9781571130556

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Survey of the criticism devoted to Gottfried Keller, the important nineteenth-century writer in German. The works of Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) rank alongside those of Goethe and Thomas Mann, yet this volume is the first in any language to examine the critical assessment and scholarly expertise devoted to him, ranging from the early stages of journalistic criticism to the present day. Professor Ruppel begins by exploring the literary industry in the nineteenth century, the literary market place, the tastes of the reading public, and the expectations of editors, before going on to survey representative journalistic assessments of Keller's writing, including critical correspondence from Keller's contemporaries. Subsequent chapters examine in chronological order the most important milestones in Keller scholarship, particularly twentieth-century criticism and the Anglo-American tradition. There is also a brief history of the translations of Keller's works into English, investigating some of the difficulties confronting English translators of Keller's poetically creative German. The study concludes with an overview of recent scholarly assessments covering the past twenty-five years.

Translation and the Intersection of Texts, Contexts and Politics
Translation and the Intersection of Texts, Contexts and Politics

Author: Mohammed Albakry

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-07-27

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 3319537482

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This book analyzes the impact of historical, political and sociocultural contexts on the reading, rewriting and translating of texts. The authors base their arguments on their experiences of translating or researching different text types, taking in fiction, short stories, memoirs, religious texts, scientific treatises, and news reports from a variety of different languages and cultural traditions. In doing so they cover a wide range of contexts and time periods, including Early Modern Europe, post-1848 Switzerland, nineteenth-century Portugal, Egypt in the early twentieth century under British colonial rule, Spain under Franco’s dictatorship, and contemporary Peru and China. They also consider the theoretical and pedagogical implications of their conclusions for translation students and practitioners. This edited collection will be of great interest to scholars working in translation studies, applied linguistics, and on issues of cultural difference.

Romanticism and the Present
Romanticism and the Present

Author: Gottfried Keller

Publisher: Livraria Press

Published: 2024-05-09

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 3989888803

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A new translation of Gottfried Keller's Romanticism and the Present (Die Romantik und die Gegenwart) followed by an Afterword by the translator, a timeline of his life and works and an index of his works. Here Keller makes a clear argument that he basically shares the views of the German realists in the field of aesthetics. He argues that poetry requires a favorable terrain or good soil on which its entities can operate and live accordingly but also that every landscape also needs "its poetic inhabitants." Here he elucidates his political philosophy which he dramatically and artistically extrapolates upon in his later works. To Keller, literary moderation results from the historical fact that the liberal revolution of 1848 was successful in Switzerland.

At the MythStone
At the MythStone

Author: Gottfried Keller

Publisher: Livraria Press

Published: 2024-05-09

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 3989888056

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A new translation of Gottfried Keller's 1861 At the MythStone (Am Mythenstein) followed by an Afterword by the translator, a timeline of his life and works and an index of his works. This is a philosophical essay related to the "Mythenstein", also called the Schillerstein, which is a natural rock made into a monument to Schiller, located in seelisberg, Switzerland, and standing around 80 feet tall. It is only accessible by boat. The monument had a large inauguration ceremony in 1859, called the Schiller Festival, which Keller attended. It celebrated his greatest story, Wilhelm Tell, which Keller refers to as merely "Tell". Schiller's daughter read his poetry at the proceedings, and Keller describes the event in detail. "Schiller never saw Switzerland in the flesh; but all the more certainly his spirit will walk over the sunny slopes and ride with the storm through the rocky gorges, even after the Mythenstein will finally have long weathered and crumbled."

Johannes Scherr
Johannes Scherr

Author: Andrew Cusack

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1640140573

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Traces the career of the widely read cultural historian Johannes Scherr and his development of a new kind of historical writing for the increasingly globalized 19th-century world.

Martin Salander
Martin Salander

Author: Gottfried Keller

Publisher: Livraria Press

Published: 2024-05-09

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 3989888072

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A new translation of Gottfried Keller's 1886 "Martin Salander", followed by an Afterword by the translator, a timeline of his life and works and an index of his works. "Martin Salander" is both the title of a family and historical novel by Gottfried Keller, published in 1886. This final work by the author is a candid critique of conditions in his own country and beyond. It follows Martin, a poor idealist, as he navigates life ethically, which is a reflection of Keller's hope for a compassionate family life as an image for a free Switzerland. The idealistic but credulous and naive protagonist returns to his Swiss homeland after a lengthy stay in Brazil, achieving prosperity as a merchant and engaging in political activities. However, he witnesses how the unchecked pursuit of social advancement leads many contemporaries into fraud and embezzlement, resulting in him and his family becoming victims of such schemes. His hope that people, endowed with political rights in their country, would interact more responsibly with each other is bitterly disappointed, leading him to hand over the management of his business to his pragmatic son by the novel's end. One can compare this novel to Dosteovsky's "The Idiot". In his later work, Gottfried Keller undertook an experiment on multiple fronts. He engaged with contemporary history more directly than in any of his previous works and ventured into new formal pathways by attempting to minimize the use of an authoritative narrator. Despite varying reception, the novel held norm-setting power for many subsequent Swiss writers.