| Landmarks in the German Novel: Part 1 Contributor(s): Reiss, Hans S. (Other), Yates, W. E. (Other), Hutchinson, Peter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3039109278 ISBN-13: 9783039109272 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $77.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Dewey: 833.009 |
| LCCN: 2008399800 |
| Series: Britische Und Irische Studien Zur Deutschen Sprache Und Lite |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 8.8" (0.75 lbs) 242 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: There is a large pool of German novelists in whose oeuvre we may look for works of landmark significance, and at certain periods of its history German fiction is particularly rich. Yet although the novel begins to assert itself in the seventeenth century, we have to wait until the late eighteenth, and Goethe's first major prose work, Werther, to see it truly rise to the level of other genres. The thirteen novels featured in this collection have all proved milestones in the development of the form, and there is heavy prominence given to works by Goethe himself and by Thomas Mann. Through these, as well as those by such figures as Kafka, Hesse, and G nter Grass, we can trace the development of the novel to its far more 'self-conscious' form, ranging through the social studies of the nineteenth to works which treat a variety of intellectual, psychological and philosophical issues in the twentieth. A second volume will cover landmarks published between 1959 and the present day. These essays, all by specialists in the relevant field, were originally delivered as lectures in the University of Cambridge. |