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Title

• A new history of German literature / David E. Wellbery, editor-in-chief ; Judith Ryan, general editor ; Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht ... [et al.], editors.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich
• Ryan, Judith, 1943-
• Ryan, Judith.
• Wellbery, David E.

Description

xxv, 1004 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.

Summary

'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.

Series Statement

• Harvard University Press reference library

Uniform Title

Harvard University Press reference library.

Alternative Title

• German literature
• History of German literature

Subject

German literature > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / David E. Wellbery -- 744 : The Charm of Charms / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht -- Circa 800 : The Carolingian Renaissance / Karl Maurer -- Circa 830 : Heroic or Vernacular Poetry? / Theodore M. Andersson -- 847, October : A Vernacular Gospel Harmony / Wolfgang Haubrichs -- 930 : Old Norse Literature / Carol J. Clover -- 1027, August : Monastic Scriptoria / Stephan Müller -- 1074-1119 : The Mystical Exposition of a City / Anselm Haverkamp -- 1147 : A Cosmological Vision / Amy M. Hollywood -- 1150 : Anthropology of the Crusades / Udo Friedrich -- 1157, March 22-31 : Imperial Spin Control / Sean Ward -- Circa 1170 : Phantom Ladies / Eckehard Simon -- 1172, January : Religious Devotion and Courtly Display / Dieter Kartschoke -- Circa 1175-1195 : The Archpoet and Goliard Poetry / Sean Ward -- 1177-1197 : A Satire of Courtly Literature / Helmut Puff -- 1184, Whitsuntide : The Courtly Festival / Horst Wenzel --1189 : Hartmann's Poetry / Thomas Bein --^
• Circa 1200 : Contagious Violence / Jan-Dirk Müller -- Post 1200 : A Literary Language? / Orrin W. Robinson -- 1203, Summer : Salvation through Fiction / James A. Schultz -- 1203, November 12 : Singer of Himself / Peter Gilgen -- Circa 1210 : Love Exalted / C. Stephen Jaeger -- Circa 1230 : The Dual Economy of Medieval Life / Peter Strohschneider -- 1250: World History as Legitimation / Gert Melville -- Circa 1260 : Spiritual Drama in an Urban Setting / Johannes Janota -- Circa 1265 : A Vision of Flowing Light / Amy M. Hollywood -- 1275, January 16 : Truth and Fiction / Thomas Bein -- 1300: Poetry, Teaching, and Experience / Max Grosse -- 1329, March 27 : Mysticism and Scholastic Theology / Rochelle Tobias -- 1346: Acknowledging the Divine / Niklaus Largier -- 1354: The Emperor and the Poet / Jeffrey T. Schnapp -- 1382: The Emergence of Yiddish Literature / Marion Aptroot -- Circa 1400 : The Culture of the Book / Tracy Adams and Stephen G. Nichols --^
• Circa 1401 : A Dialogue with Death / Christian Kiening -- 1437: The Beginning of Modern Thinking / Joachim Küpper -- 1442, May : Poetic Transformations of the Self / Wernfried Hofmeister -- Circa 1450 : Fastnachtsspiele / Eckehard Simon -- 1457: An Information Revolution / Jan-Dirk Müller -- 1478: Fortunatus Maps the World and Himself / Debra Prager -- 1492, November 7 : The Ship of Fools / Helmut Puff -- 1500: A Philosophical Rascal? / Paul Oppenheimer -- 1500: A New Science of Beauty / Doris Mc Gonagill -- 1515, Ash Wednesday : A Cobbler-Poet Becomes a Master Author / Marisa Galvez -- 1515-1517 : The Mysteries of the Kabbalah and the Theology of Obscure Men / Anthony Grafton -- 1522: Martin Luther and the Whole Man / Lisa Freinkel -- 1523: Luther's Bible and the Emergence of Standard German / Orrin W. Robinson -- 1537: The Image of the Word / Joseph Leo Koerner -- 1551: Make Poetry, Not War / Jan Ziolkowski -- 1557: A German Mamluk in Colonial Brazil? / Luciana Villas Bôas --^
• 1570: Ethical Utopianism and Stylistic Excess / Niklaus Largierand Karen Feldman -- 1594: Highlight of the Yiddish Renaissance / Marion Aptroot -- 1596, December 18 : To Explore the Secrets of Heaven and Earth / Dorothea E. von Mücke -- 1600: Signatures of Divinity / Michel Chaouli -- 1609: Jesuit Theater and the Blindness of Self-Knowledge / Christopher J. Wild -- 1622-1624 : Conversation, Poetic Form, and the State / Rüdiger Campe -- 1638: Sense and Intellect / Richard E. Schade -- 1647: The Dramaturgy of Travel / Elio Brancaforte -- 1647: Anatomy and Theology, Vanity and Redemption / Christopher J. Wild -- 1657-1686 : Poems as Way-Signs / Emery Snyder -- 1662: Learning and News in the Baroque / Emery Snyder -- 1666, February : "Commit your way to the Lord" / Dorothea E. von Mücke -- 1670: Hermaphroditism and the Battle of the Sexes / Klaus Haberkamm -- 1670: "The Entirety of Scripture Is within Us" / Dorothea E.von Mücke -- 1670: Natural Law / J.B. Schneewind --^
• 1689-1690 : The Baroque Novel and the Romance Tradition / Emery Snyder -- 1690: Life's Balance Sheet / Jeremy Dauber -- 1710: "The Case of God Defended" / Haun Saussy -- 1729: A Scientist and Poet / Helmut Müller-Sievers -- 1735: Aesthetic Orientation in a Decentered World / Jochen Schulte-Sasse -- 1750: Reading for Feeling / Klaus Weimar -- 1758: Questioning the Enlightenment / Carol Jacobs -- 1765, February 8 : "Educating Paper Girls" and Regulating Private Life / Chris Cullens -- 1767: A Woman's Design on Soldiers' Fortune / Helmut J. Schneider -- 1768, June 8 : Becoming Greek / Suzanne L. Marchand -- 1773, July 2 : Wieland's Cosmopolitan Classicism / Walter Hinderer -- 1774, January-March : Pathologies of Literature / David E. Wellbery -- 1775: Taking Individualism at Face Value / Fritz Gutbrodt -- 1778, February : The Confusions of Genre / Andreas Huyssen -- 1781, 1810 : From Enlightenment Universalism to Romantic Individuality / James A. Steintrager --^
• 1782: Anton Reiser, Case History, and the Emergence of Empirical Psychology / Andreas Gailus -- 1784, October 12 : The Universal and the Particular / Hansjakob Werlen -- 1785, August : The Limits of Enlightenment / Frederick Beiser -- 1786, September 3 : Self-Censorship and Priapic Inspiration / Hans Rudolf Vaget -- 1788: A Snapshot of Civil Society / Isabel V. Hull -- 1789, June 2 : The Disciplines of Attention / Lorraine Daston -- 1790: The Experience of Freedom / Paul Guyer -- 1791, September 30 : Beyond Language / Karol Berger -- 1792: Identity and Community / Paul Franks -- 1792, August 26 : An Aesthetic Revolution / Klaus L. Berghahn -- 1796, April : The "German" Shakespeare / Michael Eskin -- 1796, 10 June : An Alien Fallen from the Moon / Paul Fleming -- 1796-1797 : A New Program for the Aesthetic Education of Mankind? / Eckart Förster -- 1799, June : Holistic Vision and Colonial Critique / Luiz Costa Lima -- 1800: Intimations of Mortality / Michel Chaouli --^
• 1800, January : The Emergence of Literary History and Criticism / Bianca Theisen -- 1804: The Night of Imagination / Elizabeth Bronfen -- 1804, May 18 : The Subject and Object of Mythology / Kelly Barry -- 1805, Summer : Homer between Poets and Philologists / Glenn W. Most -- 1806: Die Hermannsschlachtand the Concept of Guerrilla Warfare / Wolf Kittler.
• 1808: Poetic Revolution / Rainer Nägele -- 1815: Folklore and Cultural Identity / Maria Tatar -- 1818: The Occult, the Fantastic, and the Limits of Rationality / Dorothea E. von Mücke -- 1824, October 2 : Heine's Versatility / Susan Bernstein -- 1826, November 30 : Art between Muse and Marketplace / Cordula Grewe -- 1828, Winter : Hegel's End-of-Art Thesis / Arthur C. Danto -- 1828, November : Schubert's Political Landscape / Reinhold Brinkmann -- 1831, July 21 : Faust and the Dialectic of Modernity / David E. Wellbery -- 1833: Writing between Genres and Discourses / Barbara Hahn -- 1834: Viennese Biedermeier / Hinrich C. Seeba -- 1835: The Guillotine as Hero / Harro Müller -- 1835, December 10 : Emancipation and Critique / Peter Uwe Hohendahl -- 1837, August 4 : Crimes of Probability / Anette Schwarz -- 1848, February : The Reinvention of a Genre / Hans Martin Puchner -- 1848, September 12 : Marginality and Melancholia / Chris Cullens --^
• 1848, October 11 : Tales of a Collector / Eva Geulen -- 1853: Aesthetic Salvation / David E. Wellbery -- 1855: German-American Literary Relations / Werner Sollors -- 1860: A Model for Cultural History / Anthony Grafton -- 1865, Summer : Unruly Children / Anthony Krupp -- 1867: Intimations of Mortality / Kenneth S. Calhoon -- 1876, August 17 : Wanting Art / David J. Levin -- 1882, August 26 : Nietzsche and Modernity / Robert B. Pippin -- 1888, June : Germany's Heart of Darkness / Judith Ryan -- 1895: Apparitions of Time / Kenneth S. Calhoon -- 1897: Stefan George and Symbolism / Robert E. Norton -- 1899, August 6 : The Dream as Symbolic Form / Stanley Corngold -- 1902, October 18-19 : The Limits of Language / Reingard Nethersole -- 1905: Eroticism and the Femme Fatale / Maria Tatar -- 1906: An Alpine Vegetarian Utopia / Peter Wollen -- 1910, January 27 : Urban Experience and the Modernist Dream of a New Language / Andreas Huyssen --^
• 1911, January 25 : The Agency of the Past / Thomas S. Grey -- 1912, March : Provocation and Parataxis / Mark W. Roche -- 1912, June : The Lasciviousness of Ruin / Clayton Koelb -- 1912, July-October : An Optics of Fragmentation / Charles W. Haxthausen -- 1912, September : Kafka's Narrative Breakthrough / Judith Ryan -- 1913, October : The New Thinking / Eric L. Santner -- 1914, July : Ecstatic Release from Personality / Stanley Corngold -- 1916, February 5 : "The Jingling Carnival Goes Right Out Into the Street" / Greil Marcus -- 1918, November : War and the Press / Leo A. Lensing -- 1921, April : Cinema and Expressionism / Anton Kaes -- 1922, February : Modernism and Mourning / Judith Ryan -- 1922, July 23 : Lion Feuchtwanger's Jud Süss / Mark M. Anderson -- 1923, Spring : Photography, Typography, and the Modernization of Reading / Brigid Doherty -- 1924, October : Modernism and Hysteria / Elisabeth Bronfen -- 1927: The Limits of Historicism / Hans Sluga --^
• 1927, March : The Task of the Flâneur / John T. Hamilton -- 1927, June : The Lesson of the Magic Theater / Janet Ward -- 1928, August 31 : The Urform of Opera / Stephen Hinton -- 1929, October : Narration and the City / David Dollenmayer -- 1929, Autumn : A Modernist Thought-Experiment / Burton Pike -- 1931, January : Irmgard Keun and the "New Woman" / Barbara Kosta -- 1932: Politics, Technology, and History / Hans Sluga -- 1935, March : Hitler's Imagined Community / Eric Rentschler -- 1936, February 27 : The Machine Takes Command / Lindsay Waters -- 1936, May 1 : Germans Reading Hitler / Peter Fritzsche -- 1937, June 30 : Spectacle of Denigration / Peter Nisbet -- 1939, September : The Problem of "Inner Emigration" / Elliot Y. Neaman -- 1940, Summer : Crisis and Transition / Gertraud Gutzmann -- 1942-43, Winter : Origins of Totalitarianism / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl -- 1943, May 23 : A Musical Prefiguration of History / Hans Rudolf Vaget --^
• 1946, April : Guilt and Atonement / Robert C. Holub -- 1946/1947: Intellectuals under Hitler / Karlheinz Barck -- 1947: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory / Andrew Hewitt -- 1949: History, Evidence, Gesture / Rainer Nägele -- 1949, October 7 : Socialist Realism as Heroic Antifascism / Julia Hell -- 1952, Spring : Making History Visible / Jennifer M. Kapczynski -- 1952, Autumn : Poetry after Auschwitz / Stéphane Moses -- 1953, March 26 : Coming to Terms with the Past / Bernhard Siegert -- 1953, April : A Ladder Turns into a Fly-bottle / James Conant -- 1958: Politics and Literature / Gordon A. Craig -- 1962, February : From a Tragedy of Physics to a Physics of Tragedy / Geoffrey Winthrop-Young -- 1963: Love as Fascism / Mark M. Anderson -- 1964, April 29 : Dramaturgies of Liberation / Rob Burns -- 1967, June 2 : Transformations of the Literary Institution / David Roberts -- 1968, August 21 : Utopian Hopes and Traces of the Past / Julia Hell --^
• 1976, November : The Politics of Poetry / David Bathrick -- 1977, October : Intellectuals and the Failed Revolution / Arlene A. Teraoka -- 1979: Migrants and Muses / Leslie A. Adelson -- 1979: The Enigma of Arrival / David Roberts -- 1981, December 10 : The Homecoming of a "Good European" / Maria Louise Ascher -- 1983: Critique of Violence / Beatrice Hanssen -- 1983, October 5-25 : Anniversaries and the Revival of Storytelling / Jochen Hörisch -- 1984, September : Homeland and Holocaust / Eric Rentschler -- 1986, Summer : Democracy and Discourse / Robert C. Holub -- 1989, February : Remembrance as Provocation / Bianca Theisen -- 1989, November 9 : A Republic of Voids / Edward Dimendberg -- 1999: The Skull beneath the Skin / Judith Ryan -- 2000: Spectacles of Multiculturalism / Deniz Göktürk -- 2001, December 15 : Gray Zones of Remembrance / Andreas Huyssen.

ISBN

0674015037 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004059590

OCLC

56598943

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library