Eda Sagarra, Peter Skrine

Companion to German Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents, in an immensely readable yet profoundly scholarly account, the history of German literature from the Reformation and Renaissance to the late twentieth century, in the wider context of Germanic culture, over the whole German-speaking area of Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 1999.
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 742g
• ISBN-13: 9780631215950
• ISBN-10: 0631215956
• Artikelnr.: 13617992

Autorenporträt

Eda Sagarra is Professor and Head of the Department ofGermanic Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. Her books include ASocial History of Germany (1977), Germany in the Nineteenth Century(1980), and Theodore Fontane: Der Stechlin (1986). PeterSkrine is Professor of German at the University of Bristol. Hisworks include (with Lilian Furst) Naturalism (1971), TheBaroque: Literature and Culture in Seventeenth Century Europe(1978), and Hauptmann, Wedekind and Schnitzler (1989).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

List of Maps.

Note to the Reader.

1. The Sixteenth Century.

2. The Seventeenth Century.

3. The Augustan Age of German Literature.

4. The Classical Age of German Literature.

5. The Romantic Era.

6. From Biedermeier to Realism.

7. The Literature of the Metropolis.

8. Classical Modernism.

9. Literature after 1945.

Postscript.

Biographical Index.

General Index.

Rezensionen

"The whole book is more thoughtfully planned and more disciplined in execution than the Cambridge volume { History by Watanabe}."

"Due attention is paid to women s writing without distortion of historical reality."

"Overall it is fair to say that Sagarra and Skrine win on points over the Cambridge team { History by Watanabe}." Boyd Mullan, The Year s Work in Modern Language Studies