ルターにはじまり、ゲーテ、シラー、ニーチェ、マルクス、マン、ブレヒト、グラス…ドイツの著述家は現代に多大な影響を与えてきました。本書はドイツ文学における代表的な人物や、彼らを生んだドイツという国そのものに目をむけながら、ドイツ文学が世界の文化に与えたインパクトについて考察します。
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.
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
"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
ISBN : 9780199206599
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