Structural Elements of the German Novella from Goethe to Thomas Mann: 14 (North American Studies in Nineteenth-century German Literature and Culture) - Softcover

Remak, Henry H. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820455970 ISBN 13: 9780820455976

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2001

Synopsis

This comprehensive, bilingual study tests principal theoretical elements of the German Novella, and their variations, through its richest period, against relevant aspects of representative texts from Classicism (Goethe, Schiller, Wieland, Hebel), Romanticism (Kleist, Tieck, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Arnim, Brentano), Realism (Droste, Gotthelf, Keller, Meyer, Raabe, Storm), Naturalism (Hauptmann) to Psychological Realism (Hofmannsthal, Thomas Mann, Kafka, Stefan Zweig, Musil), Neo-Classicism (Emil Strauss, Bergengruen, Andres), Neo-Pastoralism (Wiechert), and the Neo-Baroque (Grass). Romance influences (Boccaccio, Cervantes, Marguerite de Navarre, Italy as such) are considered. Written with both students and scholars in mind, Structural Elements of the German Novella from Goethe to Thomas Mann avoids jargon and contains comprehensive indices.

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Review

«Remak's jargon-free, well-written volume, with its clear arguments and concise presentations, makes an invaluable contribution to modern novella scholarship by providing a much-needed counterweight to the skeptical and deconstructive studies currently in vogue.» (Siegfried Weing, Seminar)

About the Author

The Author: Henry H.H. Remak, Professor of Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and West European Studies, Indiana University, holds degrees from the universities of Bordeaux, Montpellier, Lille, Indiana University, and the University of Chicago. He has served as Director of the Deutsche Sommerschule of Middlebury College and of the Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University. He has published widely on the novella including Novellistische Struktur: Bassompierre, Goethe, Hofmannsthal (Peter Lang, Berne, 1983).

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0820455970
• ISBN 13: 9780820455976
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 322