A history of German literature / by J. G. Robertson.
| Author/creator | Robertson, John George |
| Other author | Reich, Dorothy, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Sixth edition / by Dorothy Reich with the assistance of W. I. Lucas [and others]. |
| Publication Info | Edinburgh : William Blackwood, 1970. |
| Description | xxvii, 817 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part I. The old high German period. Early Germanic culture. The gothic bible. The Germanic races ; Caesar's and Tacitus's account of them ; The Goths ; Wulfila's translation of the Bible ; The migrations ; The sources of the national epic -- Literary beginnings under Charles the Great. The high German soundshift ; Introduction of Christianity in the Merovingian period ; Charles the Great ; Translations of the liturgy ; The Wessobrunner Gebet and the Hildebrandslied -- The ninth century. Biblical poetry. Literature in the reigns of Ludwig the Pioius and Ludwig the German ; Tatian's Evangelienharmonie ; The old Saxon Heliand and Genesis ; Muspilli ; Otfrid's Evangelienbuch -- Latin literature under the Saxon emperors. The medieval drama. The Saxon emperors ; The "Spielleute" ; St Gall ; Waltharius and Ecbasis captivi ; Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim ; Ruodlieb ; Notker ; The origins of the drama -- |
| Contents | Part II. Middle high German literature (1050-1350). Ascetism. Legend and pre-courtly epic. New beginnings in the eleventh century ; "Mariendichtung" and allegory ; The Annolied and Kaiserchronik ; The pre-courtly epic ; König Rother ; Herzog Ernst -- Chapter II. Beginnings of the epic of chivalry. The early Minnesang. Influence of the Crusades ; The Alexanderlied and the Rolandslied ; Eilhart von Oberg ; The beast epic ; The origin of the Minnesang ; "Spruchdichtung" -- The Nibelungenlied. Nibelungen saga and Nibelungenlied ; Siegfried and Kriemhild ; Gunter and Brünhild ; The Burgundians at Etzel's court ; Kriemhild's revenge ; Die Klage -- Kudrun and the Heldenbuch. Hilde and Kudrun ; Kudrun in Normandy and her deliverance ; Comparison of Kudrun with the Nibelungenlied ; The Dietrich cycle of epics ; Ortnit and Wolfdietrich -- The court epic: Heinrich von Veldeke, Hartmann, and Wolfram. Heinrich von Veldeke's Eneit ; Herbort von Fritzlar ; Albrecht von Halberstadt ; Arthurian romance ; Hartmann von Aue ; Wolfram von Eschenbach: Parzival, Willehalm, and Titurel -- Gottfried von Strassburg. The later court epic. Gottfried's Tristan ; The later court epic under the influence of Hartmann, Wolfram and Gottfried ; Meier Helmbrecht ; Ulrich von Lichtenstein ; Rudolf von Ems and Konrad von Würzburg -- The Minnesang. Minnedienst and Minnesang ; Friedrich von Hausen, Heinrich von Morungen and Reinmar von Hagenau ; Walther von der Vogelweide ; Neidhart von Reuental ; Later Minnesingers -- Didactic poetry and prose. Der Winsbeke ; Thomasin von Zirclaere's Welscher Gast ; Freidank's Bescheidenheit ; Hugo von Trimberg ; Middle high German prose: sermons and legal codes -- |
| Contents | Part III. Early new high German literature (1350-1700). The decay of romance. Anecdote, beast fable, and satire. The decay of chivalry and the rise of the middle classes ; Prose romances ; Anecdotal literature ; The beast fable: Reynke de Vos. ; Brant's Narrenschyff ; "Reimsprecher" -- Meistergesang and Volkslied. Hugo von Montfort and Oswald von Wolkenstei ; The Meistersinger and their "Singschulen" ; The Volkslied ; Historical ballads ; Love-songs and drinking-songs -- Mysticism and humanism. The Reformation. Eckhart, Suso and Tauler ; Geiler ; The literature of humanism: Erasmus ; Martin Luther: his Bible, Geistliche Lieder and Tischreden ; Ulrich von Hutten ; Thomas Murner -- The drama in the sixteenth century. Early Fastnachtspiele ; Influence of the Reformation on the drama ; The Latin school comedy ; Swiss dramatists ; Rebhun and Frischlin ; Hans Sach -- Satire and drama of the later sixteenth century. Collections of Schwänke ; Wickram, Ringwaldt and Rollenhagen ; Fischart ; The Volksbuch of Doktor Faust ; "Englische Komödianten" ; Duke Heinrich Julius of Brunswick and Jakob Ayrer -- Renaissance and Baroque. Humanists in Heidelberg ; Martin Opitz and his Buch von der deutschen Poeterey ; Literary societies ; Dach, Fleming and Rist ; Andreas Gryphius -- Religious poetry. Epigram and satire. Angelus Silesius and Spee ; The Protestant hymn: Gerhardt ; Logau's epigrams ; Satirists: Lauremberg and Rachel ; Schupp and Abraham a sancta Clara -- The novel and drama in the seventeenth century. Moscherosch ; Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus ; Weise and Reuter ; Zesen ; Ziegler's Asiatische Banise ; The later Silesians: Hofmannswaldau and Lohenstein -- |
| Contents | Part IV. The eighteenth century. Rationalism and English influence. The influence of pietism: Spener ; Rationalism: Thomasius, Leibniz and Wolff ; The "Hofpoeten" ; Günther ; Brockes and Hagedorn ; Haller ; "Moralische Wochenschriften" and "Robinsonaden" -- Leipzig and Zürich. The Halle poets. Gottsched as literary director ; His conflict with Bodmer and Breitinger ; The Bremer Beyträge ; J. E. Schlegel, Rabener and Gellert ; Fable writers ; Halle as a literary focus: Pyra and Lange ; Gleim, Uz and Kleist ; Ramler ; Gessner ; Frederick the Great and German literature -- Klopstock and the Göttinger Dichterbund. Klopstock, his Messias and Oden ; The "bardic" movement ; The Göttinger Dichterbund ; Voss and Hölty ; Claudis, Göckingk and Bürger -- Lessing. Lessing's early dramas and criticism ; His friendship with Mendelssohn and Nicolai ; Winckelmann ; Lessing's Laokoon ; Minna von Barnhelm ; Hamburgische Dramaturgie ; Emilia Galotti ; Goeze ; Nathan der Weise -- Wieland. Lesser prose writers. Wieland ; Translation of Shakespeare ; Novels and verse romances: Agathon, Die Abderiten, Oberon ; Wieland's influence ; The novel: imitations of Richardson ; Popular philosophers ; Lichtenberg -- Herder. Hamann ; Herder's Fragmente and Von deutscher Art und Kunst ; Volkslieder ; Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte ; Gerstenberg -- Sturm und Drang. Goethe's young. The "Geniezeit" ; Goethe as a student in Leipzig and Strassburg ; Early writings ; His Sesenheim lyrics ; Götz von Berlichingen, Werther and Clavigo ; Faust in its earliest form ; Egmont -- Other Stürmer und Dränger. Schiller's early years. Gerstenberg ; Lenz ; Klinger in his first period ; Leisewitz, H. L. ; Wagner and "Mahler" Müller ; Schiller's youth: Die Räuber, Fiesko and Kabale und Liebe ; Schubart -- Schiller's second period. The later Sturm und Drang. Don Carlos ; Schiller as historian ; The drama: Schröder and Iffland ; The "Ritterdrama" ; The theatre in Austria ; Heinse ; Klinger's novels ; K. Ph. Moritz and J. G. Forster -- Goethe's first twenty years in Weimar. Goethe as minister of state ; Charlotte von Stein ; Goethe's lyric poetry ; His visit to Italy ; Iphigenie and Tasso ; Return to Weimar ; Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre -- Immanuel Kant. The friendship of Goethe and Schiller. Kant's three Kritiken ; Schiller's writings on aesthetics: his philosophic lyrics ; W. von Humboldt ; Schiller's friendship with Goethe ; Die Horen ; Xenien ; Wallenstein -- Goethe's classicism. The first part of Faust. Hermann und Dorothea ; The "Balladenalmanach" ; Schiller's Lied von der Glocke ; Goethe and the French revolution ; Die natürliche Tochter and Pandora ; Faust, Erster Theil -- Schiller's last years. The Weimar court theatre ; Kotzebue ; Schiller's Maria Stuart, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, Die Braut von Messina, Wilhelm Tell and Demetrius ; Schiller's death -- Other writers of the classical period. Matthisson ; Tiedge ; Kosegarten ; Seume ; The transition from classicism to Romanticism: Fichte ; Jean Paul Richter ; Hölderlin ; Dialect literature -- |
| Contents | Part V. The nineteenth century. The Romantic school. The founding of the Romantic school ; A. W. Schlegel as critic: the translation of Shakespeare ; F. Schlegel ; Tieck and Wackenroder ; Novalis ; Schelling and Schleiermacher -- Romantic drama and patriotic lyric. The "Schicksalstragödie": Werner, Müllner and Houwald ; Heinrich von Kleist ; Patriotic lyric: Körner, Arndt and Schenkendorf -- Goethe's later years. Goethe and Napoleon ; Die Wahlverwandtschaften ; Dichtung und Wahrheit ; Scientific interests ; Westöstlicher Divan, Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre ; Novelle ; Faust, Zweiter Theil -- The Heidelberg Romanticists. Romanticism in Heidelberg: Brentano, Arnim and Görres ; Des Knaben Wunderhorn ; The brothers Grimm: German philology ; The later work of Arnim and Brentano -- Romanticism in north Germany. Berlin as a literary centre ; La Motte Fouqué ; Chamisso ; Eichendorff ; Gentz und Müller ; Savigny ; The philosophy of Hegel and Schopenhauer -- Romanticism in its decline. E. T. A. Hoffmann ; Tieck's later Novellen ; Schulze ; Rückert ; Wilhelm Müller ; Philhellenism ; Gaudy and Mosen ; Polenlieder -- Historical fiction and drama. The historical novel: Hauff and Alexis ; Zschokke ; The drama: Grabbe, Raupach and Holtei ; The Romantic opera ; Immermann ; Platen -- Young Germany. "Das junge Deutschland" ; Wienbarg ; Börne ; Heine: Buch der Lieder and later poetry, as a prose-writer ; Gutzkow's novels and dramas ; Laube ; Büchner ; Mundt and Menzel ; Bettina von Arnim -- The Swabian poets. Romanticism in Swabia ; Uhland ; Kerner, Schwab and Waiblinger ; Eduard Mörike: his Maler Nolten ; H. Kurz ; F. Th. Vischer -- Literature in Austria. Grillparzer. Drama in Austria ; Collin and Schreyvogel ; Franz Grillparzer ; Halm and Bauernfeld ; The Viennese "posse" ; Raimund and Nestroy ; Lyric poetry: Zedlitz, Grün and Lenau -- The political lyric of the 'forties. Becker ; Prutz ; Herwegh ; Freiligrath ; Dingelstedt ; Hoffmann von Fallersleben ; Revolutionary poets in Austria ; Kinkel ; Geibel ; Strachwitz ; Annette von Droste-Hülshoff -- Literature of the province. The drama. The novel of peasant-life: Gotthelf and Auerbach ; A. Stifter ; F. Reuter ; K. Groth ; Dramatic literature: F. Hebbel ; O. Ludwig as dramatist and novelist ; Minor playwrights -- The novel between 1848 and 1870. Philosophy and science ; The novel: G. Freytag ; F. Spielhagen ; Historical and antiquarian novels ; Gottfried Keller ; Theodor Storm ; Women writers ; W. Jordan -- The literary circle in Munich. Geibel in Munich ; Schack ; Bodenstedt ; Leuthold and Lingg ; Scheffel and his imitators ; Lorm and Hamerling ; Heyse ; Raabe ; W. Busch ; Historians and critics -- From 1870 to 1880. Richard Wagner. The new German empire ; Richard Wagner ; The Bayreuth Festspiele ; The "Meininger" ; L. Anzenbruber ; C. F. Meyer ; Austrian novelists -- The revolt against pessimism. Friedrich Nietzsche. Individualism ; Nietzsche: his Also sprach Zarathustra ; The lyric: D. von Liliencron ; C. Spitteler: Olympischer Frühling ; The drama -- |
| Contents | Part VI. The twentieth century. Naturalism and impressionism. Naturalism ; Its influence on the lyric: R. Dehmel ; The drama: H. Sudermann ; G. Hauptmann ; A. Schnitzler ; F. Wedekind ; The novel ; Th. Fontane ; Women writers -- Neo-Romanticism and symbolism. The lyric: Stefan George ; R. M. Rilke ; The ballad ; Neo-Romanticism in the drama: Hauptmann's later work ; H. v. Hofmannsthal ; P. Ernst ; Minor playwrights -- Expressionism. The First World War and literature ; Expressionism ; The drama: G. Kaiser ; E. Barlach ; H. Johst ; E. Toller ; F. von Unruh ; F. Werfel ; The lyric: E. Lasker-Schüler ; Th. Däubler ; G. Heym ; G. Trakl ; The novel: A. Döblin ; H. Mann ; K. Edschmid ; L. Frank ; Contemporary writers: B. Brecht ; F. Kafka ; E. Jünger ; G. Benn ; K. Kraus -- The novel in the first half of the twentieth century. The Mann ; J. Wassermann ; H. Stehr ; E. Strauss ; H. Hesse ; G. Hauptmann ; E. Wiechert ; H. Carossa ; "Heimatkunst" ; R. Huch ; The historical novel ; E. Kolbenheyer ; Other novelists -- National socialism. The years 1945-48. The Second World War ; J. Weinheber ; The novel: H. Kasack ; H. Broch ; R. Musil ; E. Langgässer ; Christian writers: R. A. Schröder ; W. Bergengruen ; G. von Le Fort ; R. Schneider ; E. Schaper ; S. Andres ; Other writers ; The lyric ; The drama: C. Zuckmayer ; F. Hochwälder -- Post-war developments in the theatre. The rise of documentary drama -- Chronological table. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: pages 711-797. |
| LCCN | 74552609 |
| ISBN | 085158103X |
| Stock number | 60/- |
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