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Friedrich Duerrenmatt
These translations of Friedrich Duerrenmatt's fiction introduce the writer to a new generation of readers.
The Swiss writer Friedrich Duerrenmatt (1921-90) was one of the most important literary figures of…
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Theodore Ziolkowski (Contributor)
Employs an innovative approach by stages to offer a unified vision of European Romanticism over the half-century of its growth and decline.
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Illuminates unexplored dimensions of the music-literature relationship and the sometimes unrecognized talents of certain famous writers and composers.
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Identifies and explores Roman modes of poetry as received by twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglo-American, German, and French poets.
Theodore Ziolkowski
After much investigation, Ziolkowski reinforces Umberto Eco’s notion that the most powerful secret, the magnetic center of conspiracy fiction, is in fact a secret without content.
Explores literary characters from Aeneas to Kafka’s Josef K. who experience a crucial moment of hesitation.
It is not sufficiently appreciated, I believe, how profoundly Clio, the muse of history, permeated every aspect of thought during the Romantic era: philosophy, theology, law, natural science, medicine, and…
The reasons for the conspicuous popularity of Ovid-his life as well as his works-at the turn of the new millennium bear investigation… . This book speaks of the new bodies…
Theodore Ziolkowski,Theodore Ziolkowski
In Gilgamesh among Us, Theodore Ziolkowski explores the surprising legacy of the poem and its hero, as well as the epic’s continuing influence in modern letters and arts.
The Description for this book, Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus, will be forthcoming.
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Theodore Ziolkowski surveys the major literary treatments of the biblical figure of Moses since the Enlightenment.
Explores five institutions - mining, law, madhouses, universities, and museums - that provide the socio-historical context for German Romantic culture. This book shows how German writers and thinkers helped to…
Exposes the similarities underlying the myths as well as their origins in earlier trickster legends, and considers when and why they emerged in their respective societies. This book examines the…
Using principles from the anthropological theory of legal evolution, this book locates the works, which reflect crises in the evolution of Western law in their legal contexts and traces through…
Immediately after World War I, four major European and American poets and thinkers–W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, R. M. Rilke, and C. G. Jung–moved into towers as their principal habitations…
This text sets out to locate modern turriphilia in its cultural context and to explore the biographical circumstances that motivated W.B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, R.M. Rilke and C.G. Jung, to…
The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. In this book, the author offers a compelling account…
The Description for this book, The Novels of Hermann Hesse: A Study in Theme and Structure, will be forthcoming.
Theodore Ziolkowski (Princeton University, New Jersey)
Scandal on Stage looks at ten famous theater scandals of the past two centuries in Germany and France as symptoms of contemporary social, political, ethical, and aesthetic upheavals. Theodore Ziolkowski…
Articles investigating themes and structures in the works of major German writers from the eighteenth century to the present day.
Herman Meyer
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Hermann Stelzner
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Philipps-Universitat Marburg, 4 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Thema dieser Hausarbeit ist das Buch Das…
Friedrich Durrenmatt
The wife of a psychiatrist has been raped and killed near a desert ruin in North Africa. Her husband hires a woman named F to reconstruct the unsolved crime in…
Theodore Ziolkowski (Professor of Modern Languages Emeritus, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, Princeton University)
Minos and the Moderns considers three mythological complexes that enjoyed a unique surge of interest in early twentieth-century European art and literature: Europa and the bull, the minotaur and the…
Theodore Ziolkowski (Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Princeton University)
This study examines the figure of the alchemist in literature from Dante to the present and shows how the popular response to that figure has changed through the ages.
Hermann Hesse
In the spring of 1922, several months after completing Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse wrote a fairy tale that was also a love story, inspired by the woman who was to become…
