Life's Golden Tree: Essays in German Literature from the Renaissance to RilkeThomas Kerth, George C. Schoolfield Camden House, 1996 - 282 pages Essays offering new insights into important topics and figures in German literature, from the middle ages to the present day. The essays in this volume, contributed by well-known Germanists and those working in the field of comparative literature, take fresh looks at key figures and issues in German literary and cultural studies, from the medieval to thepost-modernist period. |
Contents
Sibylle Schwarz and die Art der Buhler | 15 |
Above it All with Balde | 56 |
On Researching the Literary Life of the Town | 101 |
The Production of Emblems in Nuremberg ca 16501680 | 115 |
Gleich Opfergerüchen Parzenlied | 141 |
The German Lyric in the Age of Poetic Realism | 171 |
Emerson and Nietzsche | 182 |
Is That Man a Hunter or a Shepherd? | 201 |
Time in Margot Scharpenbergs Poetry | 225 |
Such is our pride our folly or our fate وو | 245 |
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