This is a reissue of Professor Stern's distinguished study of
German prose from the death of Goethe to the heyday of the
Wilhelminian Empire. Professor Stern argues that nineteenth-century
German prose is characterized by a particular combination of the
prophetic and the archaic, of the existential and the parochial,
and is only partially and sometimes not at all related to the
social and political realities of the age. In this sense, German
literature of the period stands apart from the main stream of
European realism and has, for that reason, received little
attention from the common reader outside its own country. The book
contains studies of Goethe, Grillparzer, Buchner, Schopenhauer,
Heine, Stifter and Fontane, all of whom re-interpreted the world
from points of view other than that of the common and commonly
explored social certainties of their age. Consequently, Professor
Stern suggests alternative criteria to the common notion of realism
with which to asses their work.
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