Essays on German works produced during the High Middle Ages. These works included runic inscriptions and Germanic songs celebrating the lives of heroes and legendary figures, chronicles documenting the great events in the lives of emperors and kings, and literature that commemorated the virtues of pious men and women
In the familiar format of the distinguished Dictionary of literary biography series, DLB 94 provides career biographies of 34 literary figures (the "greats" include Goethe, Kant, and Schiller) whose first works appeared after 1765 and before 1790 and who began their creative life either in the Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress--the German phrase comes from the title of a 1776 play by F.M. Klinger, one of the writers herein covered) or in the epoch of German or Weimar Classicism. Includes the usual array of fascinating illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Authors covered in this volume were instrumental in laying the groundwork for the late 18th-century blossoming of German literature, philosophy and culture called Classicism. In this period, German was finally accepted as the standard literary language, critical journals were established and basic concepts of democracy were widely discussed. Since there is a significant break in the tradition of German letters just before the period covered in this volume, an essay entitled The German Transformation from Baroque to the Enlightenment is provided in the appendix. It offers an introduction to the literary trends represented by the authors n this volume. 34 entries Johann Jakob Breitinger, Johann Joachim Eschenburg, Johann Christoph Gottsched, Johann George Hamann, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Kaspar Lavater, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Nicolai, Christoph Martin Wieland. 01
Essays on Japanese authors who achieved prominence and influenced literary development from the beginning of Japan's encounter with the West through the end of World War II. Includes discussion of the interplay between traditional Japanese views of fiction and literary concepts from the West that the Japanese examined, copied, reacted to, as well as the dominate literary form throughout the twentieth century, the I-novel or personal narrative
This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history. Dictionary of Literary Biography systematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods. For a listing of Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes sorted by genre 01
Profiles more than thirty German writers of the nineteenth century up to 1840, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail
Essays on writers of German baroque literature, primarily prose fiction and poetry in German and in Latin, including religious tracts, works by theologians and mystics, as well as a vast body of alchemical, astrological and quasi-scientific literature published in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Many important works during the first half of the seventeenth century are adaptations or translations of works from other languages