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Robert Howes
Iberia Joint List Owner
THE LION AND THE EAGLE: German-Spanish Relations Over the Centuries: An
Interdisciplinary Approach
Edited by Conrad Kent, Thomas Wolber, and Cameron M. K. Hewitt, Ohio
Wesleyan
University
The German and Spanish-speaking worlds have, over the centuries,
developed an
intrinsic relationship, one which predates the Habsburg dynasty and the
Renaissance and baroque periods. The cross-fertilization and challenges
have
been both fruitful and complex with inventions surfacing in one culture
often
achieving their greatest prosperity in the other: Martin Luther's
Protestant
Reformation stimulated a response in Spain that was to define the
European
Counter Reformation; Spanish Baroque writers were seminal in the
development
of German Romanticism; Carl Christian Friedrich Krause and other
nineteenth-century liberals provided the foundation for Spanish
reformist
efforts on the one hand, while German conservatives like Adam Müller
inspired
conservatives on the other; the music of Richard Wagner transformed
Spanish
music and the Spanish stage at the turn of the twentieth century; Pablo
Picasso and artists of the Spanish avant-garde sparked the enthusiasm of
the
Germans before the Nazi era. Today, German and Spanish intellectuals
and
writers share a similar commitment to the creation of a European culture
in
the face of resistance from other members of the EU.
Viewed from a variety of disciplines this volume explores the
relentlessly
consistent, albeit often forgotten connections between the two
linguistic and
cultural groups revealing the myriad of ways in which they have shared
and
transformed literature, art, culture, politics, and history.
CONTENTS:
Spain and Germany in the Middle Ages: An Unexplored Literary-Historical
Area
of Exchange, Reception and Exploration
The Archduchess Elizabeth: Where Spain and Austria met; A Woman's
Influence:
Archduchess Maria of Bavaria and the Spanish Habsburgs; Germany's
Indies? The
Spanish Monarchy and Germany in the Reign of the Last Spanish Habsburg,
Charles II, 1665-1700; The Motifs of Incest and Fraticide in Friedrich
Schiller's The Bride of Messina and their Possible Calderonian Sources;
Francisco Lòpez de Úbeda and Goethe as Participants in the Shared
German-Spanish Tradition of Kabbalistic Rhetoric; The Influence of
Neogrammarian Scholarship on Ramón Menéndez Pidal's Historical Grammars
of
Spain; Reassessing Friedrich Schlegel's Reading of Don Quijote in the
Light
of his Early Writings; Spain in Heine - Heine in Spain: Notes on a
Bilateral
Reception; Clarin's Krausism; La Abeja of Barcelona and German
Literature in
Spain, 1862-1870; Configurations of German and Spanish Intellectual
History
and Aesthetics: Goethe, Novalis, Ortega y Gasset, and Unamuno; The Fame
of
Miguel de Unamuno in Germany: It's Growth and Decline, 1924-1930; Hitler
and
the Spanish Civil War: A Shifting Balance of Power; What the Condor Saw:
Nazi
Propaganda Images of the Spanish Civil War; Writing War: German Women
and the
Spanish Civil War; The Reluctant Belligerent: Franco's Spain and
Hitler's
War; The Last Defenders of the New Order: Spaniards and Nazi Germany,
August
1944-May 1945; Pablo Neruda and the German Literary Exile Community; La
insurrecciòn der Aufstand: Cultural Synergy, Film and Revolution; The
Reception of Spanish-American Fiction in Germany: The Tide of
Bestsellers,
1980-1995
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University of Sussex Library E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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