From Goethe to Gundolf : Essays on German Literature and Culture.

From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin's groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty years. The work represents his major research interests of Romanticism and the reception of Shakespeare in Germany, but also explores a broader range...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paulin, Roger.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Goethe and Schiller: Goethezeit
  • 1. Goethe: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
  • 2. Goethe and Stolberg in Italy: The Consequences for Romantic Art
  • 3. Schiller: Wallenstein
  • 4. Laocoon, Dante, Shakespeare, August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Overcoming of Tragedy
  • 5. Adding Stones to the Edifice: Patterns of German Biography
  • 6. Kleist's Metamorphoses. Some Remarks on the Use of Mythology in Penthesilea
  • 7. Goethe, the Brothers Grimm and Academic Freedom
  • ROMANTICISM
  • 8. Fairy Stories for Very Sophisticated Children: Ludwig Tieck's Phantasus
  • 9. Gundolf's Romanticism
  • NINETEENTH CENTURY
  • 10. Some Remarks on the New Edition of the Works of Wilhelm Müller
  • 11. Heine and Shakespeare
  • 12. The 'Schillerfeier' of 1859 and the 'Shakespearefest' of 1864. With Some Remarks on Theodor Fontane's Contributions
  • 13. Under the Horse's Tail: The Poets, Statuary and the Literary Canon in Nineteenth-Century Germany
  • POETRY
  • 14. Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock: 'Der Zürchersee'
  • 15. Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
  • 16. Rilke: Duino Elegy Ten: In memoriam Leslie Seiffert, 1934-90
  • BOOKS
  • 17. Julius Hare's German Books in Trinity College Library, Cambridge
  • Bibliography
  • List of Illustrations
  • Index.