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German winter nights

Title: German winter nights / Johann Beer ; translated by John Russell, and with an introduction by James Hardin.
Author: Beer, Johann, 1655-1700.
Publication: Columbia, SC : Camden House, 1998.

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Description

xxv, 253 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Beers' German Winter Nights (1681) is one of the watermarks of German Baroque literature. Although it clearly owes much in motif and style to Grimmelshausen's picaresque novel, Simplicius Simplicissimus, its blend of outrageous student humor and unprecedented realism mark it as a uniquely readable work that has appeal even today.
Beer's novel reveals the influence of Spanish and French models in this genre, but it also shows the influence of his native Austrian landscape, the German chapbook, and his wide reading both in adventure literature and books of contemporary literary theory (poetics). The book is perhaps most important as a cultural mirror of the late 17th century, rich in folklore, humor, and details of everyday life.

Series Statement

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Uniform Title

Alternative Title

Teutsche Winternächte.

ISBN

1571131957 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98039707

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries