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Boundaries --- Social aspects --- History --- Germany --- Civilization --- History. --- Boundaries - Social aspects - Germany - History --- Germany - Civilization - 16th century --- Germany - Civilization - 17th century --- Germany - Civilization - 18th century
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This second volume of the set not only presents a detailed picture of the beginnings of writing in German from its first emergence as a literary language from around 750 to 1100, but also places those earliest writings into a context. The first stages of German literature existed within a manuscript culture, so careful consideration is given to what constitutes the actual texts, but German literature also arose within a society that had recently been Christianized - through the medium of Latin. Therefore what we understand by literature in Germany at this early period must include a great amount of writing in Latin. Thus the volume looks in detail at Latin works in prose and verse, but with an eye upon the interaction between Latin and German writings. Some of the material in the newly written German language is not literary in the modern sense of the word, but makes clear the difficulties and indeed the triumphs of the establishing of a written literary language. Individual chapters look first at the earliest translations and functional literature in German (including charms and prayers); next, the examination of heroic material juxtaposes the 'Hildebrandlied' with the Christian 'Ludwigslied' and with Latin writings like 'Waltharius' and the panegyrics; Otfrid's work - the Gospel-poem in German - is given its due prominence; the smaller German texts and the later prose works are fully treated; as is chronicle-writing in German and Latin. Old High German literature was a trickle compared to the flood of the Latin that surrounded (and influenced) it, but its importance is undeniable: that trickle became a river. Contributors: Linda Archibald, Graeme Dunphy, Stephen Penn, Christopher Wells, Jonathan West, Brian Murdoch. Brian Murdoch is Professor of German at the University of Stirling, Scotland.
German literature --- History --- 830 <09> --- 830 <09> Duitse literatuur--Geschiedenis van ... --- Duitse literatuur--Geschiedenis van ... --- History and criticism --- Duitse literatuur--Geschiedenis van .. --- Enlightenment --- Influence --- Classicism --- Pseudo-classicism --- Aesthetics --- Literature --- Civilization, Classical --- Civilization, Germanic --- Germanic literature --- Germanic peoples --- Literature, Medieval --- Germanic tribes --- Ethnology --- Indo-Europeans --- Teutonic race --- Germanic civilization --- Teutonic civilization --- Civilization --- Young Germany --- Sturm und Drang movement --- Storm and stress --- History and criticism. --- Influence. --- anno 1300-1399 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Duitse literatuur--Geschiedenis van . --- Duitse literatuur--Geschiedenis van --- German literature - Middle High German, 1050-1500 - History and criticism. --- German literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism. --- Sturm und Drang movement. --- British literature. --- German literature. --- Goethe. --- North American literature. --- Romantic. --- Weimar Classicism. --- accomplishments. --- alienation. --- complex cultural system. --- cultural life. --- culture. --- division. --- drama. --- excesses. --- follies. --- fragmentation. --- human life. --- literary period. --- motifs. --- novel. --- philosophy. --- poetry. --- politics. --- preoccupations. --- science. --- shaping beliefs. --- theater. --- values. --- visual culture. --- women writers. --- Charms. --- Chronicles. --- Early Middle Ages. --- German Literature. --- Heroic Material. --- Hildebrandlied. --- Latin Influence. --- Literary Language. --- Ludwigslied. --- Manuscript Culture. --- Old High German Literature. --- Otfrid's Gospel-Poem. --- Prayers. --- Translations. --- Clayton Koelb. --- Drama. --- Eric Downing. --- Impressionism. --- Lyric Poetry. --- Music-Drama. --- Naturalism. --- Nineteenth-Century German Literature. --- Poetic Realism. --- Prose Fiction. --- Romanticism. --- Social and Political Context. --- Symbolism.
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Pathbreaking volume providing a detailed, state-of-the-art overview of the literature of this 350-year period and its cultural and historical background. Early Modern German Literature provides an overview of major literary figures and works, socio-historical contexts, philosophical backgrounds, and cultural trends during the 350 years between the first flowering of northernhumanism around 1350 and the rise of a distinctly middle-class, anti-classical aesthetics around 1700. Recent scholarship has significantly revised many traditional assumptions about the literature of this period, starting with areassessment of the canon. The notion of "literature" has expanded to include a much wider range of texts than before, such as broadsheets, illustrated books, emblem books, travelogues, demonological treatises, and letters. Greater attention to the cultural and social phenomena that affect literary production has led to hitherto neglected areas of research, including the culture of learning and learnedness; the idea of authorship; the relationship betweenthe intellectual elite and the state and other political authorities and institutions; the development of the family; gender dichotomy; and the early formation of an educated, urban middle class. In an introduction and twenty-seven essays on specific but broadly-based topics of seminal importance to the period, written by leading specialists from North America, the United Kingdom, and Germany, this pathbreaking volume reflects this state-of-the-art research. Contributors: Klaus Garber, Graeme Dunphy, Renate Born, Stephan Füssel, Scott Dixon, Wilhelm Külmann, Max Reinhart, joachim Knape, Hans-Gert Roloff, Erika Rummel, John Alexander, Peter Hess, Andreas Solbach, Peter Daly, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Jill Bepler, Gerhart Hoffmeister, Steven Saunders, jeffrey Chipps Smith, Wolfgang Neuber, Gerhild Scholz Williams, Anna Carrdus, John L. Flood, Laurel Carrington, Theodor Verweyen, John Roger Paas Max Reinhart is Professor of German at the University of Georgia.
German literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Cultural trends. --- Early Modern German Literature. --- Literary figures. --- Philosophy. --- Socio-historical.
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