Editions Rodopi BV is pleased to announce following new publication(s) in
German Studies:
* Hermann Hesse Today / Hermann Hesse Heute.
Edited by Ingo Cornils and Osman Durrani.
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2005. 221 pp. (Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren
Germanistik 58)
ISBN: 90-420-1606-X Bound € 48,-/ US $ 60.-
Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=ABNG+58
More Info:
In November 2002, an international conference was held at the Institute of
Germanic Studies in London in order to commemorate the 125th anniversary of
Hermann Hesse’s birth. Twenty distinguished speakers from North and South
America, Russia, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom attended the
three-day conference with the specific aim of exploring the continuing
importance of this widely read German-language author.
This volume brings together the various responses to the complex challenge
that Hesse, whose sheer success is sometimes seen as detracting from his
status, presents to literary scholarship around the world. The author’s
current image among readers and scholars is approached from several
distinct thematic and theoretical perspectives, with the objective of
providing a concise overview of current research. The volume offers new
readings of a number of Hesse’s seminal works and makes a significant
contribution to academic research into his past and present standing as a
global icon.
As the title suggests, the focus is on ‘Hermann Hesse Today’. The book
investigates his current significance for a modern readership, taking
account of his importance in the lecture theatre and classroom, the multi-
facetted applicability of his moral, ethical and aesthetic concerns in the
context of a fragmented world, and the continuing relevance of his
writings. With the ever-increasing importance of modern preoccupations such
as the ecological movement or the growth of the internet, a fresh look at
Hesse’s works is long overdue. The most obvious sign of this is the
appearance of a definitive, historical-critical edition of his works
(prose, poetry, and literary criticism), which will give access to much
hitherto unpublished material and stimulate fresh debates on an author who
ranks among the best-known and most influential figures of the twentieth
century.
This volume will be of interest to teachers of German in higher education
and their students as well as researchers and the general readership that
continues to take an interest in Hesse on both sides of the Atlantic.
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