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German Literature: A Very Short Introduction
German Literature: A Very Short Introduction
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  • Looks at the great German writers, from Luther, Goethe, Schiller, and Marx, to Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, and Gunter Grass
  • Reveals the links between a nation and its literature: showing how to ask what German literature is like is to ask what Germany itself is like
  • Examines the literary and philosophical responses of German writers to social, political, and economic change, and seeks out the links between Germany's intellectual traditions and its often violent and tragic history

   
German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Günter Grass, have had a profound influence on the modern world. 
  
This Very Short Introduction presents an engrossing tour of the course of German literature from the late Middle Ages to the present, focussing especially on the last 250 years. Emphasizing the economic and religious context of many masterpieces of German literature, it highlights how they can be interpreted as responses to social and political changes within an often violent and tragic history. The result is a new and clear perspective which illuminates the power of German literature and the German intellectual tradition, and its impact on the wider cultural world. 

Index: 

Introduction
1: The Bourgeois and the Official: A Historical Overview
2: The Laying of the Foundations (to 1781)
3: The Age of Idealism (1781-1832)
4: The Age of Materialism (1832 to 1914)
5: Traumas and Memories (1914-)
Further Reading & References
Index

About the author: 

Nicholas Boyle is the Schroder Professor of German and President of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge. He was also Head of the University's Department of German from1996 to 2001. He has so far published two volumes of his prizewinnning biography, Goethe: the Poet and the Age, and his most recent book is Sacred and Secular Scriptures: a Catholic approach to literature published in 2004, based on the Erasmus Lectures which he delivered at Notre Dame University. Professor Boyle is a Fellow of the British Academy, holds an honorary degree from Georgetown University in Washington DC, and was awarded the Goethe Medal of the Goethe Institut in 2000.

"Boyle has a sure touch and an obvious authority...this is a balanced and lively introduction to German literature." - Ben Hutchinson, TLS
 

"highly impressive... Professor Boyle concentrates on creating a lucid, wide-ranging historical background against which each of the five periods is brought to life, with a challenging choice of examples" - Forum for Modern Language Studies

Product details

ISBN : 9780199206599

Author: 
Nicholas Boyle
Pages
184 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
110 x 174 mm
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German Literature: A Very Short Introduction

German Literature: A Very Short Introduction

German Literature: A Very Short Introduction