Description:Collection of essays on German and European literature.The essays on German and European literature assembled in this volume view literary works in their broader cultural contexts - as, for example, from the vantage point of the history of science, of political life, of patterns of taste in the arts, or as viewed in the framework of broad anthropological issues. Sometimes the most interesting viewpoint has to do with conventions of everyday life. In these essays a literary text poses a puzzling question inviting inquiry; pursuing it, Professor Guthke takes his readers on an expedition into regions of the terres inconnues of human life and thought and sensibilities.The essays include, among Poetry in an Age of Albrecht von Haller and the Crisis of the Enlightenment; A Delicate Lessing and the Jews; The King of the Weimar Hauptmann's Role in Political Life; In Search of B. Traven, Mystery Man; Last A Convention in Life and Letters; Life from the Last Words in Narrative Biography; and Last Words in Shakespeare's Plays.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Trails in No-Man's Land: Essays in Cultural and Literary History (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, 1). To get started finding Trails in No-Man's Land: Essays in Cultural and Literary History (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, 1), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Trails in No-Man's Land: Essays in Cultural and Literary History (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, 1)
Description: Collection of essays on German and European literature.The essays on German and European literature assembled in this volume view literary works in their broader cultural contexts - as, for example, from the vantage point of the history of science, of political life, of patterns of taste in the arts, or as viewed in the framework of broad anthropological issues. Sometimes the most interesting viewpoint has to do with conventions of everyday life. In these essays a literary text poses a puzzling question inviting inquiry; pursuing it, Professor Guthke takes his readers on an expedition into regions of the terres inconnues of human life and thought and sensibilities.The essays include, among Poetry in an Age of Albrecht von Haller and the Crisis of the Enlightenment; A Delicate Lessing and the Jews; The King of the Weimar Hauptmann's Role in Political Life; In Search of B. Traven, Mystery Man; Last A Convention in Life and Letters; Life from the Last Words in Narrative Biography; and Last Words in Shakespeare's Plays.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Trails in No-Man's Land: Essays in Cultural and Literary History (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, 1). To get started finding Trails in No-Man's Land: Essays in Cultural and Literary History (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, 1), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.