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Death still comes to everyman, but this study of three twentieth-century German plays shows the harder challenge of living without salvation in an age of war and unprecedented mass destruction.

German drama --- War in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Toller, Ernst, --- Borchert, Wolfgang, --- Frisch, Max, --- Death. --- Everyman. --- Existential Guilt. --- German Drama. --- Identity. --- Morality. --- Politics. --- Twentieth Century. --- War.

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Accurate and entertaining translations of three texts that reveal much about medieval political thought and remain relevant to today's political systemsRecent political events around the world, not least January 6, 2021, have shown that political systems long thought to be resilient can be surprisingly at risk. This edition offers an introduction to and prose translations of three texts that demonstrate just how precarious things can be even in a rigidly structured society (here the medieval Holy Roman Empire). The texts, the anonymously authored Duke Ernst, Konrad of Würzburg's Henry of Kempten, and Heinrich's Reynard the Fox, are also literary works, designed to entertain. Two of them are adventure stories, but carry a message about the care needed to prevent the escalation of violence; the third is a bleak warning against unscrupulous advisors. As works of literature they are varied. The first moves from recognizable history to develop into an early fantasy novel, as the central character goes boldly to distant places outside the known world and meets, fights with, and learns from strange and alien creatures, before returning to the "real" world. The second, a novella, is ostensibly about chivalric bravery, but it is set in a pre-chivalric period, and shows how (then as now) a trivial incident can escalate towards disaster. The third is an animal fable, part of the extensive tradition of Reynard the Fox, initially familiar, but developing into a violent and dark tale that ends with the death of a king.

German literature --- Tales --- Tales, Medieval --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Otto mit dem Bart. --- Otto the Great. --- Reinhart Fuchs. --- anarchy. --- crisis. --- diplomacy. --- feudal system. --- imperialism. --- nobility. --- pardon. --- peace. --- satire. --- scoundrel. --- trickster. --- verse.

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In Germany, Weimar Classicism (roughly the period from Goethe's return to Germany from Italy in 1788 to the death of his friend and collaborator Schiller in 1805) is widely regarded as an apogee of literary art. But outside of Germany, Goethe is considered a Romantic, and the notion of Weimar Classicism as a distinct period is viewed with skepticism. This volume of new essays regards the question of literary period as a red herring: Weimar Classicism is best understood as a project that involved the ambitious attempt not only to imagine but also to achieve a new quality of wholeness in human life and culture at a time when fragmentation, division, and alienation appeared to be the norm. By not succumbing to the myth of Weimar and its literary giants, but being willing to explore the phenomenon as a complex cultural system with a unique signature, this book provides an account of its shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values. Contributions from leading German, British, and North American scholars open up multiple interdisciplinary perspectives on the period. Essays on the novel, poetry, drama, and theater are joined by accounts of politics, philosophy, visual culture, women writers, and science. The reader is introduced to the full panoply of cultural life in Weimar, its accomplishments as well as its excesses and follies. Emancipatory and doctrinaire by turns, the project of Weimar Classicism is best approached as a complex whole. Contributors: Dieter Borchmeyer, Charles Grair, Gail Hart, Thomas Saine, Jane Brown, Cyrus Hamlin, Roger Stephenson, Elisabeth Krimmer, Helmut Pfotenhauer, Benjamin Bennett, Astrida Orle Tantillo, W. Daniel Wilson. Simon J. Richter is associate professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania.

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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A collection of fresh essays examining the wide scope and significance of early Germanic culture and literature. The first volume of this set views the development of writing in German with respect to broad aspects of the early Germanic past, drawing on a range of disciplines including archaeology, anthropology, and philology in addition toliterary history. The first part considers the whole concept of Germanic antiquity and the way in which it has been approached, examines classical writings about Germanic origins and the earliest Germanic tribes, and looks at thetwo great influences on the early Germanic world: the confrontation with the Roman Empire and the displacement of Germanic religion by Christianity. A chapter on orality -- the earliest stage of all literature -- provides a bridgeto the earliest Germanic writings. The second part of the book is devoted to written Germanic -- rather than German -- materials, with a series of chapters looking first at the Runic inscriptions, then at Gothic, the first Germanic language to find its way onto parchment (in Ulfilas's Bible translation). The topic turns finally to what we now understand as literature, with general surveys of the three great areas of early Germanic literature: Old Norse, Old English, and Old High and Low German. A final chapter is devoted to the Old Saxon Heliand. Contributors: T. M. Andersson, Heinrich Beck, Graeme Dunphy, Klaus D©ơwel, G. Ronald Murphy, Adrian Murdoch, Brian Murdoch, Rudolf Simek, Herwig Wolfram. Brian Murdoch and Malcolm Read both teach in the German Department of the University of Stirling in Scotland.

Germanic literature --- Literature, Medieval --- Civilization, Germanic. --- Germanic peoples. --- History and criticism. --- Germanic tribes --- Ethnology --- Indo-Europeans --- Teutonic race --- Germanic civilization --- Germanic peoples --- Teutonic civilization --- Civilization --- Germanic antiquity. --- Gothic literature. --- Old English. --- Old High German. --- Old Low German. --- Old Norse. --- Roman Empire. --- Runic inscriptions. --- early Germanic tribes. --- early Germanic writings. --- indigenous performance.

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German literature --- anno 500-1199 --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature --- History and criticism --- -Civilization, Medieval, in literature --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- German literature - Old High German, 750-1050 - History and criticism --- ALTHOCHDEUTSCHE LITERATUR --- EINFÜHRUNG