German literature : a very short introduction / Nicholas Boyle.

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Boyle, Nicholas

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TextSeries: Very short introductions ; 178.Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (171 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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9780191525711
0191525715
9780191578632
0191578630
9781435653153
1435653157
9786611341428
6611341420

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: German literature.DDC classification:

830.9 22

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PT91 .B69 2008eb

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Contents:

The bourgeois and the official : a historical overview -- The laying of the foundations (to 1781) -- The age of idealism (1781-1832) -- The age of materialism (1832-1914) -- Traumas and memories (1914- ).

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Summary: From the Publisher: German literature in all genres and from all historical periods has exerted an enormous influence on the history of western thought. From Martin Luther, Frederick Schiller, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, and Gunter Grass, Germany has produced an impressive number of great writers and great works. In German Literature: A Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Boyle illuminates the particular character and power of German literature and explores its impact on the larger cultural world. Boyle presents an engrossing tour of German literature from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, focusing especially on the last 250 years. He examines key themes like idealism, modernism, materialism, trauma and memory, showing how they have imbued the great German writers with such distinctive voices. Indeed, this brief introduction offers broad coverage of German literature, revealing the links between German literature and the German nation, examining the literary and philosophical responses of German writers to social, political, and economic change, and seeking out the connections between Germany's intellectual traditions and its often violent and tragic history.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-162) and index.

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From the Publisher: German literature in all genres and from all historical periods has exerted an enormous influence on the history of western thought. From Martin Luther, Frederick Schiller, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, and Gunter Grass, Germany has produced an impressive number of great writers and great works. In German Literature: A Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Boyle illuminates the particular character and power of German literature and explores its impact on the larger cultural world. Boyle presents an engrossing tour of German literature from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, focusing especially on the last 250 years. He examines key themes like idealism, modernism, materialism, trauma and memory, showing how they have imbued the great German writers with such distinctive voices. Indeed, this brief introduction offers broad coverage of German literature, revealing the links between German literature and the German nation, examining the literary and philosophical responses of German writers to social, political, and economic change, and seeking out the connections between Germany's intellectual traditions and its often violent and tragic history.

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