Structural Elements of the German Novella from Goethe to Thomas Mann

Remak, Henry H. H.

ISBN 10: 0820434515 / ISBN 13: 9780820434513

Published by Bern, Peter Lang, 1996

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(North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature, 14); XIX, 322 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Structural Elements of the German Novella from Goethe to Thomas Mann
• Publisher: Bern, Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820434515
• ISBN 13: 9780820434513
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Ohne Schutzumschlag
• Signed: Widmung des Verfassers
• Seller catalogs:
  • Germanistik

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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.

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).