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New, specially commissioned essays providing an in-depth scholarly
introduction to the great thinker of the European Enlightenment.
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) is one of the great names of
the classical age of German literature. One of the last
universalists, he wrote on aesthetics, literary history and theory,
historiography, anthropology, psychology,education, and theology;
translated and adapted poetry from ancient Greek, English, Italian,
even from Persian and Arabic; collected folk songs from around the
world; and pioneered a better understanding of non-European
cultures.A student of Kant's, he became Goethe's mentor in
Strasbourg, and was a mastermind of the Sturm und Drang and a
luminary of classical Weimar. But the wide range of Herder's
interests and writings, along with his unorthodox ways of seeing
things, seems to have prevented him being fully appreciated for any
of them. His image has also been clouded by association with
political ideologies, the proponents of which ignored the message
of Humanitat in histexts. So although Herder is acknowledged by
scholars to be one of the great thinkers of European Enlightenment,
there is no up-to-date, comprehensive introduction to his works in
English, a lacuna this book fills with seventeennew, specially
commissioned essays. Contributors: Hans Adler, Wulf Koepke, Steven
Martinson, Marion Heinz and Heinrich Clairmont, John Zammito,
Jurgen Trabant, Stefan Greif, Ulrich Gaier, Karl Menges, Christoph
Bultmann, Martin Kessler, Arnd Bohm, Gerhard Sauder, Robert E.
Norton, Harro Muller-Michaels, Gunter Arnold, Kurt Kloocke, and
Ernest A. Menze. Hans Adler is Halls-Bascom Professor of Modern
Literature Studies at the Universityof Wisconsin-Madison. Wulf
Koepke is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of German, Texas A&M
University and recipient of the Medal of the International J. G.
Herder Society.
A volume of carefully focused essays illuminating the works of one
of the leading 20th-century German writers. Alfred Doeblin
(1878-1957) was one of the great German-Jewish writers of the 20th
century, a major figure in the German avant-garde before the First
World War and a leading intellectual during the Weimar Republic.
Doeblin greatly influenced the history of the German novel: his
best-known work, the best-selling 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz,
has frequently been compared in its use of internal monologue and
literary montage to James Joyce's Ulysses and John Dos Passos's
Manhattan Transfer . Doeblin's oeuvre is by no means limited to
novels, but in this genre, he offered a surprising variety of
narrative techniques, themes, structures, and outlooks. Doeblin's
impact on German writers after the Second World War was
considerable: Gunter Grass, for example, acknowledged him as "my
teacher." And yet, while Alexanderplatz continues to fascinate the
reading public, it has overshadowed therest of Doeblin's immense
oeuvre. This volume of carefully focused essays seeks to do justice
to such important texts as Doeblin's early stories, his numerous
other novels, his political, philosophical, medical,
autobiographical, and religious essays, his experimental plays, and
his writings on the new media of cinema and radio. Contributors:
Heidi Thomann Tewarson, David Dollenmayer, Neil H. Donahue, Roland
Dollinger, Veronika Fuechtner, Gabriele Sander, Erich Kleinschmidt,
Wulf Koepke, Helmut F. Pfanner, Helmuth Kiesel, Klaus
Muller-Salget, Christoph Bartscherer, Wolfgang Dusing. Roland
Dollinger is Associate Professor of German at Sarah Lawrence
College; Wulf Koepke is Professor Emeritus of German at Texas
A&M University; Heidi Thomann Tewarson is Professor of German
at Oberlin College.
The first thorough study in English of the reception of Doeblin's
novels, written by one of the foremost Doeblin scholars. Alfred
Doeblin (1878-1957) is one of the major German writers of the
twentieth century. His experimental, ever-changing, avant-garde
style kept both readers and critics off guard, and although he won
the acclaim of critics and hada clear impact on German writers
after the Second World War (Gunter Grass called him "my teacher"),
he is still largely unknown to the reading public, and
under-researched by literary scholars. He was a prolific writer,
with thirteen novels alongside a great many other shorter fiction
works and non-fiction writings to his credit, and yet,
paradoxically, he is known to a larger public as the author of only
one book, the 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, which sold more
copies in the first weeks of publication than all his previous
novels combined. Alexanderplatz is known for its depiction of the
criminal underground of Berlin and a montage and
stream-of-consciousness technique comparable to James Joyce's
Ulysses; it became one of the best-known big-city novels of the
century and has remained Doeblin's one enduring popular success.
Doeblin was forced into exile in 1933, and the works he wrote in
exile were neglected by critics for decades. Now epic works like
Amazonas, November 1918, and Hamlet, Oder die lange Nacht nimmt ein
Ende are finding a fairer critical evaluation. Wulf Koepke tackles
the paradox of Doeblin the leading but neglected avant-gardist by
analysis of contemporary and later criticism, both journalistic and
academic, always taking into account the historical context in
which it appeared. Wulf Koepke is Professor Emeritus at Texas
A&M University.
Carlyle's translations of two of Jean Paul's most accomplished
novels. Thomas Carlyle's preoccupation with German literature and
the German spirit, beginning in 1819, had acquainted him with two
creative giants, Goethe and Schiller, motivating him to translate
Wilhelm Meister and to write hisLife of Schiller. But then he
discovered another great figure, even closer to his heart: Jean
Paul Friedrich Richter. The study of Richter's works developed into
a very personal encounter. Carlyle even adopted Jean Paul's
mannerisms in his own style, and all of this had a decisive impact
on the content, structure and style of Sartor Resartus (1833). Wulf
Koepke's introduction places Jean Paul in the context of the
English-speaking worldof the mid-19th century.
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) has long been considered a
model case for comparative research. Recent interest in his work
here and abroad as well as the publication of new editions of his
works have sparked immense interest in this seminal figure.
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