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Literature and religion in the German-speaking world : from 1200 to the present day

Title
Literature and religion in the German-speaking world : from 1200 to the present day / edited by Ian Cooper and John Walker.
Publication
  • Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Cooper, Ian, 1979-
  • Walker, John, 1956 January 14-
Description
vii, 347 pages : illustration; 24 cm
Summary
"The relationship between literature and religion in German is unique in the European tradition. It is essential to the definition of German, Austrian and Swiss cultural identity in both the Protestant and Catholic traditions and crucial to our understanding of what has been called the 'special path' of German intellectual life. Offering in-depth essays by leading scholars, Literature and Religion in the German-Speaking World analyses this relationship from the beginnings of vernacular literature in German, via the Reformation, early-modern and Enlightenment periods, to the present day. It shows how such fundamental concepts as 'subjectivity', 'identity' and 'modernity' itself arise from the interrelation between religious and secular modes of understanding, and how this interrelation is inseparable from its expression in literature"--
Subject
  • Religion and literature > Europe, German-speaking > History
  • German literature > History and criticism
  • German literature
  • Religion and literature
  • German-speaking Europe
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-341) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Ian Cooper and John Walker -- 1. Pagan, Christian, secular : German writing until 1450 / Almut Suerbaum -- 2. Literature and religion in the Holy Roman Empire 1450-1700 / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly -- 3. German literature and religion 1700-1770: The shock and normalization of the infinite / John H. Smith -- 4. Literature and religion in Germany 1770-1830 / Ian Cooper -- 5. Culture, society and secularization: Literature and religion in the German-speaking world 1830-1900 / John Walker -- 6. Religion in German modernism 1900-1945 / Carolin Duttlinger -- 7. German literature and religion 1945 to the present day / Daniel Weidner.
Call Number
JFE 20-1630
ISBN
  • 9781108418102
  • 1108418104
  • 9781108406512
  • 1108406513
LCCN
2019017892
OCLC
1105736731
Title
Literature and religion in the German-speaking world : from 1200 to the present day / edited by Ian Cooper and John Walker.
Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-341) and index.
Added Author
Cooper, Ian, 1979- editor.
Walker, John, 1956 January 14- editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 20-1630
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