August Closs

The Genius of the German Lyric

An Historic Survey Of Its Formal And Metaphysical Values

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1938 and updated in 1962, this remains one of the few comprehensive studies of the German lyric in any language, ranging from the Middle Ages to the 1960s. By the use of detailed critical analysis the book interprets the essence of German lyric poetry and includes a study of the phases of German literature in the first half of the 20th Century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 746g
• ISBN-13: 9780367820374
• ISBN-10: 0367820374
• Artikelnr.: 62605190

Autorenporträt

August Closs was Head of the German Department at the University of Bristol.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Origins of the German Lyric. The German Minnesingers. The
Mastersingers. 2. The German Folk-Song 3. Decline and Rebirth 4. Opitz.
Further Developments of the Baroque Lyric. 5. Aufklärung and Pietism 6.
Klopstock 7. Hölderlin 8. German Romanticism Proper and Further
Developments 9. Austria, Biedermeier, Grillparzer 10. The Political Lyric
Round About the Years 1830 and 1840-1848. The Munich Circle 11.
Droste-Hülshoff. Eduard Mörike. The Swiss Lyric Poets. North German Lyric
Poets 12. Changing Views. Nietzsche. Arno Holz. Impressionism and
Neo-Romanticism. Expressionism. R. M. Rilke. Stefan George and the "Third
Humanism". Counter-Currents and New Paths. Volkhafte Dichtung of the
Present Day.