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PETER LANG - European Academic Publishers
are pleased to announce a new book by
Peter Hutchinson (ed.)
LANDMARKS IN GERMAN SHORT PROSE
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2003.
208 pp. British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature.
Vol. 33
General Editors: H.S. Reiss and W.E. Yates.
ISBN 3-03910-003-3 / US-ISBN 0-8204-5922-4 pb.
sFr. 56.00 / EUR* 38.10 / EUR** 35.60 / £ 23.00 / US-$ 35.95
* includes VAT - only valid for Germany and Austria
** does not include VAT
The twelve essays in this volume deal with major achievements in German
short prose published between 1810 and 1978. Most of the texts studied
are "Novellen", and there is a concentration on the first half of the
nineteenth century, the period in which this form flourished in
Germany. The works covered range from Goethe's "Novelle", a title
straining for exemplary status, to Walser's "Ein fliehendes Pferd", the
best example of "Novelle" form in the late twentieth century, as
important for its social and psychological commentary as for its subtle
characterisation and skilful arrangement of motifs, features in which
the "Novelle" has tended to excel. The earliest landmark is seen as
Kleist's strange 'chronicle' "Michael Kohlhaas", which showed German
writers a completely new way of telling a story, and this is followed
by essays on works which all attempted something new in the history of
short fiction. Authors dealt with include Eichendorff, Heine, Büchner,
Grillparzer, Droste-Hülshoff, Keller, Hauptmann, Thomas Mann, and
Kafka. These essays, all by specialists in the relevant field, were
originally delivered as lectures in the University of Cambridge.
Contents: Nicholas Boyle: Goethe, "Novelle" - Charlotte Woodford:
Kleist, "Michael Kohlhaas" - Ritchie Robertson: Eichendorff, "Aus dem
Leben eines Taugenichts" - Anita Bunyan: Heine, "Die Harzreise" - Erika
Swales: Büchner, "Lenz" - Michael Minden: Grillparzer, "Der arme
Spielmann" - John Guthrie: Droste-Hülshoff, "Die Judenbuche" - Nicholas
Saul: Keller, "Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe" - Mary Stewart:
Hauptmann, "Bahnwärter Thiel" - Peter Hutchinson: Mann, "Der Tod in
Venedig" - Andrew Webber: Kafka, "Die Verwandlung" - David Midgley:
Walser, "Ein fliehendes Pferd".
The Editor: Peter Hutchinson is Reader in German in the University of
Cambridge and Director of Studies in Modern Languages at Trinity Hall.
He has published widely on German literature and has edited a number of
texts and collections of essays.
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