German Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Boyle, Nicholas

ISBN 10: 0199206597 / ISBN 13: 9780199206599

Published by Oxford University Press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: German Literature: A Very Short Introduction
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199206597
• ISBN 13: 9780199206599
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

From Martin Luther, Frederick Schiller, and Goethe to Karl Marx, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, and Gunter Grass, Germany has produced an impressive number of great writers and great works. In This Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Boyle illuminates the particular character and power of German literature and explores its impact on the larger cultural world. Boyle presents an engrossing tour of German literature from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, focussing especially on the last 250 years. He examines key themes like idealism, modernism, materialism, trauma and memory, showing how they have imbued the great German writers with such distinctive voices.

About the Author

Nicholas Boyle is Professor of German Literary and Intellectual History at Cambridge University. 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 was awarded the Goethe Medal of the Goethe-Institut, is a Fellow of the British Academy, and holds an honorary degree from Georgetown University in Washington DC.