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Grimmelshausen the Storyteller

Author : Alan Menhennet
Publisher : Literary Criticism in Perspect
ISBN 13 : 9781571131027
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Grimmelshausen the Storyteller written by Alan Menhennet and published by Literary Criticism in Perspect. This book was released on 1997 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Jakob von Grimmelshausen (1622-76) wished to be taken seriously as a writer, which by and large, in his own day, he was not. He was in fact the author of the first great German novel, Der abentheuerliche Simplicissimus (1688), out of which arose a kind of cycle of `Simplician' novels. Later generations have made up for this neglect, and established him as an accomplished satirist and profound allegorist, who confronted the temporal and eternal issues of the seventeenth century. This study sets out to show, principally through detailed textual analysis, that Grimmelshausen's `Simplician style' allows of the co-existence of general religous and moral concerns with a spontaneous response to the individual vitality, curiousness, and above all, humour of life, which is the motive force of true storytelling. In addition, while the constituent novels of the `Simplician Cycle' should be and are considered as separate entities, the author's claim that they should also be seen as a coherent whole cannot be brushed aside, and this becomes a progressively more important theme.

Storytelling in the Works of Bunyan, Grimmelshausen, Defoe, and Schnabel

Author : Janet Bertsch
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571132994
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book Storytelling in the Works of Bunyan, Grimmelshausen, Defoe, and Schnabel written by Janet Bertsch and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how uses of fictional storytelling reflect the secularization process that coincided with the rise of the modern novel. The modern novel appeared during the period of secularization and intellectual change that took place between 1660 and 1740. This book examines John Bunyan's Grace Abounding and The Pilgrim's Progress, Johann Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, and J. G. Schnabel's Insel Felsenburg as prose works that reflect the stages in this transition. The protagonists in these works try to learn to use language in a pure, uncorrupted way. Their attitudes towards language are founded on their understanding of the Bible, and when they tell their life stories, they follow the structure of the Bible, because they accept it as the paradigmatic story. Thus the Bible becomes a tool to justify the value of telling any story. The authors try to give their own texts some of Scripture's authority by imitating the biblical model, but this leads to problems with closure and other tensions. If Bunyan's explicitly religious works affirm the value of individual narratives as part of a single, universal story, Grimmelshausen's and Defoe's protagonists effectively replace the sacred text with their own powerful, authoritative stories. J. G. Schnabel illustrates the extent of the secularization process in Insel Felsenburg when he defends the entertainment value of escapist fiction and uses the Bible as the fictional foundation of his utopian civilization: arguments about the moral value of narrative give way to the depiction of storytelling as an end in itself. But Bunyan, Grimmelshausen, Defoe, and Schnabel all use positive examples of the transfiguring effect of reading and telling stories, whether sacred or secular, to justify the value of their own works. Janet Bertsch teaches at Wolfson and Trinity College, Cambridge.

A Companion to the Works of Grimmelshausen

Author : Karl F. Otto
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571131841
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Works of Grimmelshausen written by Karl F. Otto and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (ca. 1621-1676) is the most significant (and still readable) author of seventeenth-century German novels. His Abenteuerlicher Simplicius Simplicissimus remains the one German novel of its time that has attained the stature of "world literature": its unique mix of violent action and solitary reflection, its superlative humor, its realistic portrayal of a peasant turned soldier turned hermit has made it the longest-running bestseller in German literature. Read by students and scholars in comparative literature, history, and German, and by those interested in the development of the picaresque novel in Europe, the work and its "Continuations" have increasingly occupied scholars around the world, who have in recent years shown it to be a work of subtle structure and characterization, bearing the imprint of the most advanced political thinking of the time, and showing the influences of some of the most significant works of world literature, including Cervantes' Don Quixote and Barclay's Argenis. This volume of essays by leading Grimmelshausen scholars from Germany, the United States, and England provides analyses of significant topics in his life and works, including questions of genre, structure, satire, allegory, narratology, political thought, religion, morality, humor, realism, and mortality. Contributors: Christoph E. Schweitzer, Italo Michele Battafarano, Klaus Haberkamm, Rosmarie Zeller, Andreas Solbach, Dieter Breuer, Lynne Tatlock, Peter Hess, Shannon Keenan Greene, and Alan Menhennet. Karl F. Otto is Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania and has written extensively on German Baroque literature.

The Musician in Literature in the Age of Bach

Author : Stephen Rose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107004284
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Musician in Literature in the Age of Bach written by Stephen Rose and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing novels and autobiographies from Bach's Germany, this book presents new insights into the lives, mindset and status of musicians.

Encyclopedia of German Literature

Author : Matthias Konzett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113594122X
Total Pages : 1136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of German Literature written by Matthias Konzett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus

Author : Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141982128
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus written by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Gaudy, wild, raw, amusing, rollicking and ragged, boiling with life, on intimate terms with death and evil - but in the end, contrite and fully tired of a world wasting itself in blood, pillage and lust' Thomas Mann A story of war in all its absurdity and horror, this incomparable novel describes the fortunes of a young boy travelling through a world ravaged by conflict, and the terrible things he witnesses. Written by someone who fought in the Thirty Years War which decimated Europe in the seventeenth century, it combines brutal, documentary realism with fantastical, knockabout humour to depict a universe turned upside down. This pioneering work of fiction is considered to be the first great German novel. Translated by J. A. Underwood with an Introduction by Kevin Cramer

The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800

Author : Steven Moore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623567408
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 written by Steven Moore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of the novel between the years 1600 and 1800-from Don Quixote to America's first big novel, an homage to Cervantes entitled Modern Chivalry. This is the period of such classic novels as Tom Jones, Candide, and Dangerous Liaisons, but beyond the dozen or so recognized classics there are hundreds of other interesting novels that appeared then, known only to specialists: Spanish picaresques, French heroic romances, massive Chinese novels, Japanese graphic novels, eccentric English novels, and the earliest American novels. These minor novels are not only interesting in their own right, but also provide the context needed to appreciate why the major novels were major breakthroughs. The novel experienced an explosive growth spurt during these centuries as novelists experimented with different forms and genres: epistolary novels, romances, Gothic thrillers, novels in verse, parodies, science fiction, episodic road trips, and family sagas, along with quirky, unclassifiable experiments in fiction that resemble contemporary, avant-garde works. As in his previous volume, Moore privileges the innovators and outriders, those who kept the novel novel. In the most comprehensive history of this period ever written, Moore examines over 400 novels from around the world in a lively style that is as entertaining as it is informative. Though written for a general audience, The Novel, An Alternative History also provides the scholarly apparatus required by the serious student of the period. This sequel, like its predecessor, is a “zestfully encyclopedic, avidly opinionated, and dazzlingly fresh history of the most 'elastic' of literary forms” (Booklist).

Enlightenment and Political Fiction

Author : Cecilia Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317357019
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment and Political Fiction written by Cecilia Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The easy accessibility of political fiction in the long eighteenth century made it possible for any reader or listener to enter into the intellectual debates of the time, as much of the core of modern political and economic theory was to be found first in the fiction, not the theory, of this age. Amusingly, many of these abstract ideas were presented for the first time in stories featuring less-than-gifted central characters. The five particular works of fiction examined here, which this book takes as embodying the core of the Enlightenment, focus more on the individual than on social group. Nevertheless, in these same works of fiction, this individual has responsibilities as well as rights—and these responsibilities and rights apply to every individual, across the board, regardless of social class, financial status, race, age, or gender. Unlike studies of the Enlightenment which focus only on theory and nonfiction, this study of fiction makes evident that there was a vibrant concern for the constructive as well as destructive aspects of emotion during the Enlightenment, rather than an exclusive concern for rationality.

Choose Not These Vices

Author : Alfred D. White
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039103126
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Choose Not These Vices written by Alfred D. White and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late seventeenth century into the eighteenth, critics and authors in Germany defended the novel: indeed it depicted vice and immorality, but only with the intention of exhorting the reader to avoid such dangers to the soul. This book examines outstanding novels of life from the Thirty Years' War to the Vormärz, mostly written with this real or apparent moral aim, and evaluates them as documents of social history. The author finds that concepts of truth and plausibility are different in the early modern period. Initial and closing chapters deal with French novels, showing how approaches to society differ across national cultures.

Unpacking My Library

Author : Leah Price
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300170920
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Unpacking My Library written by Leah Price and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As words and stories are increasingly disseminated through digital means, the significance of the book as object—whether pristine collectible or battered relic—is growing as well. Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books spotlights the personal libraries of thirteen favorite novelists who share their collections with readers. Stunning photographs provide full views of the libraries and close-ups of individual volumes: first editions, worn textbooks, pristine hardcovers, and childhood companions. In her introduction, Leah Price muses on the history and future of the bookshelf, asking what books can tell us about their owners and what readers can tell us about their collections. Supplementing the photographs are Price's interviews with each author, which probe the relation of writing to reading, collecting, and arranging books. Each writer provides a list of top ten favorite titles, offering unique personal histories along with suggestions for every bibliophile. Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books features the personal libraries of Alison Bechdel, Stephen Carter, Junot Díaz, Rebecca Goldstein and Steven Pinker, Lev Grossman and Sophie Gee, Jonathan Lethem, Claire Messud and James Wood, Philip Pullman, Gary Shteyngart, and Edmund White.

Comparative Criticism: Volume 20, Philosophical Dialogues

Author : E. S. Shaffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521622417
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Criticism: Volume 20, Philosophical Dialogues written by E. S. Shaffer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative Criticism is an annual journal of comparative literature and cultural studies that has gained an international reputation since its inception in 1979. It contains major articles on literary theory and criticism; on a wide range of comparative topics; and on interdisciplinary debates. It includes translations of literary, scholarly and critical works; substantial reviews of important books in the field; and bibliographies on specialist themes for the year, on individual writers, and on comparative literary studies in Britain and Ireland.

The Historical Experience in German Drama

Author : Alan Menhennet
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571132550
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book The Historical Experience in German Drama written by Alan Menhennet and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major figures treated include Gryphius, Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, Grillparzer, Hebbel, Schnitzler, and Brecht. There is no competing work in English."--BOOK JACKET.

Schiller's "On Grace and Dignity" in Its Cultural Context

Author : Jane Veronica Curran
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571133052
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Schiller's "On Grace and Dignity" in Its Cultural Context written by Jane Veronica Curran and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English scholarly edition of Schiller's pivotal essay, accompanied by the first comprehensive commentary on it. Friedrich Schiller is not only one of the leading poets and dramatists of German Classicism but also an inspiring philosopher. His essay "Über Anmut und Würde" (On Grace and Dignity) marks a radical break with Enlightenment thinking and its morally prescriptive agenda. Here Schiller does not pursue the prevalent interest in the individual artist as genius or in the creative act; instead, he establishes a harmony of mind and body in the aesthetic realm, putting down his thoughts on aesthetics in a systematic way for the first time, building on his own earlier forays into the field and on an intensive study of Kant. The popular essay form allowed Schiller to combine condensed thoughtwith clear and rhetorically effective presentation, but his innovation here is his insistence on a freedom for art that affirms the moral freedom of reason, reuniting the human faculties radically separated by Enlightenment thought. Schiller sees aesthetic autonomy as the way forward for civilization. This is the first English scholarly edition of this pivotal essay, accompanied by the first comprehensive commentary on it. The essays focus on various facets of Schiller's essay and its socio-historical and philosophical context. Schiller's analysis is examined in the light of the thematic context of his plays as well as its surviving influence into the twentieth century. Contributors: Jane Curran, Christophe Fricker, David Pugh, Fritz Heuer, Alan Menhennet. Jane V. Curran is Professor of German at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Christophe Fricker is a D. Phil. candidate at St. John's College, Oxford.

Reference Guide to World Literature

Author : Tom Pendergast
Publisher : Saint James Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Reference Guide to World Literature written by Tom Pendergast and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers writers from the ancient Greeks to 20th-century authors. Includes biographical-bibliographical entries on nearly 500 writers and approximately 550 entries focusing on significant works of world literature. Each author entry provides a detailed overview of the writer's life and works. Work entries cover a particular piece of world literature in detail.

International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature Chiefly in the Fields of Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences

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Total Pages : 1034 pages
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Gunpowder, Masculinity, and Warfare in German Texts, 1400-1700

Author : Patrick Brugh
Publisher : Changing Perspectives on Early
ISBN 13 : 158046968X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Gunpowder, Masculinity, and Warfare in German Texts, 1400-1700 written by Patrick Brugh and published by Changing Perspectives on Early. This book was released on 2019 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How gunpowder technology exploded heroes, heroics, and war stories from 1400 to 1700, and how German writers tried to glue them back together

The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature

Author : J. A. Garrido Ardila
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131629854X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature written by J. A. Garrido Ardila and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the sixteenth century, Western literature has produced picaresque novels penned by authors across Europe, from Alemán, Cervantes, Lesage and Defoe to Cela and Mann. Contemporary authors of neopicaresque are renewing this traditional form to express twenty-first-century concerns. Notwithstanding its major contribution to literary history, as one of the founding forms of the modern novel, the picaresque remains a controversial literary category, and its definition is still much contested. The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature examines the development of the picaresque, chronologically and geographically, from its origins in sixteenth-century Spain to the neopicaresque in Europe and the United States.