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In the framework of their annual conference, the editors and experts working on the Historical-Critical Edition of the Works and Letters of Adalbert Stifter organized a symposium in Linz (St.…
Whether as aphorisms or fragments, thought figures or feuilletons, prose poems, micro-stories or autobiographical jottings, different manifestations of short prose have greatly influenced the…
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) is recognized as one of the leading German-speaking prose writers but she began her writing with historical tragedies. For the first time, this edition…
The author first discusses the fundamental relationship, in Hebrew writing systems, between script and sound, in particular the investigation of this relationship in texts of the past. In the…
In the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, the Latin prose romance 'Dialogus Salomonis et Marcolfi' was taken as the basis for a number of vernacular adaptations. The subject matter was translated…
This study of the role of the aristocratic family in vernacular literature of the Middle Ages looks at its chosen subject from the viewpoint of the history of mentalities. It traces the literary…
Johann von Würzburg's 'Wilhelm von Österreich' is a late representative of the courtly romance. Here it receives attention for the first time against the background of its literary-historical…
Up to the present, little scholarly attention has been given to the earliest versions of the 'Eulenspiegel' material, largely because research has concentrated on the figure generally thought to…
Starting from a discussion of selected characteristic 18th century theories of empirical research and (nature) philosophy, the study undertakes an analysis of mineralogical motifs in the works…
The life-stories of problematic central figures as recounted in Moritz' »Anton Reiser«, Keller's »Der grüne Heinrich« and Raabe's »Akten des Vogelsangs« serve as a basis for mapping out…
The study analyses early Romantic models of individuality and their relevance in the literature and philosophy of aesthetic modernism after 1945. Starting with Novalis, the self as a work of art…
Schiller's dramatic fragments offer a largely unexplored spectrum of instances of the way Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) addressed a problem he was crucially engaged with: the relationship…
The study is an attempt to establish a productive connection between two methodologically incompatible approaches, discourse analysis and hermeneutics. It examines the reciprocal impact of…
The study proceeds from a close reading of the 'blood in the snow' episode in Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Parzival'. The perception and knowledge-formation processes described in this scene are…
The study discusses Albrecht Dürer's (1471-1528) minor writings (family records, letters, poems in rhyming couplets, dedications, and the »Diary of a Journey to the Netherlands«) against the…
The study analyzes strategies serving the constitution of meaning in »Reinfried and Apollonius«, proceeding from there to propose a new definition of what it is that significantly distinguishes…
The subject of this volume is historicist practice in the perception of history and the development that superseded it. Both Ranke and Droysen as well as Fontane in his texts on the war of 1870/…
The present study examines authorship identity patterns in the works of Clemens Brentano (1778-1842), inquiring specifically into the function of poetological and transcendental-philosophical…
Goethe's libretti represent one of the last major lacunae in scholarly research on the author. Throughout his life Goethe took a keen and productive interest in all the European varieties of…
The study traces a development extending from Nietzsche to Brecht in which traditional identities lost their sustaining power. The ongoing disintegration of ordered structures, traditional faith…
One of the striking features of »Faust II« is the way Goethe has incorporated a multiplicity of knowledge elements into this work of his old age. The study examines the function of this…
The problem of transgression is central to the six case studies discussed in the book, three of them relating to literary works (Peter Altenberg's »Ashantee« (1897), Hanns Heinz Ewers' »Mamaloi…
This study is devoted to the texts deriving from Hartmann von Aue's »Gregorius«: Arnold of Lübeck's »Gesta Gregorii Peccatoris«, the hexameter version »Gregorius Peccator«, the legend »Gregorius…
The study conveys insights into the creative strategies employed by German romance authors of the high Middle Ages in the adaptation of their usually French sources. With reference to Heinrich…
Against the background of the recent revival of interest evinced by Germanic studies in the medieval Order of German Knights, this study sets out to cast light on the various insights to be…
Ludwig Achim von Arnim's adaptation of the medieval saga of the female pope Johanna is typically romantic in the way it combines epic, lyrical, and dramatic elements. This is the first edition…
The second volume of the Weimarer Arnim-Edition contains all of Arnim's published essays on natural science. With his summaries and theoretical essays on electricity, magnetism, and galvanism he…
The volume is an annotated collection of the extant and reconstructed letters written (107) and received (94) by Arnim in his school and university years up to the beginning of his educative…
The volume contains Arnim's correspondence during his educational journey (1802-1804) and comprises 117 letters from his own hand (that have either come down to us or can be reconstructed) and…
It was designed to be the crowning glory of his academic career, yet for centuries it remained almost totally ignored. The present volume contains the first scholarly edition of Karl Philipp…
Volume 9 of the critical edition of Karl Philipp Moritz' complete works provides renewed access to Moritz' guides to letter-writing: Anleitung zum Briefschreiben (1783) and Allgemeiner deutscher…
Christian Brehme (1613-1667) gilt als ein markanter Vertreter der sog. Leipziger Studenten-Poeten, eines Freundeskreises, der sich in den Jahren nach 1630, also mitten im Dreißigjährigen Krieg,…
David Schirmer (1623-1687), one of the well-known figures of German Baroque literature, spent the major part of his life as Court Poet and Librarian in Dresden. His substantial lyrical output is…
Seckendorff's »Teutsche Reden« of 1691 and the outline of his ideas on natural law published with them are a uniquely eloquent testimony of German Baroque culture. Seckendorff was the only 17th…
The study discusses the history and the contents of the former library of the Cistercian convent in Kirchheim am Ries (near Nördlingen, Bavaria). Research at the Oettingen-Wallerstein Library of…
With some 10,000 individual titles in nearly 2,200 volumes, including 200 manuscripts, the library of the Augsburg town clerk and humanist Konrad Peutinger (1465-1547) was almost certainly the…
This volume, the second one dealing with the library of Augsburg's town clerk and humanist Konrad Peutinger (1465-1547), continues the reconstruction of what is probably the largest scholarly…
This study is the first to undertake a detailed appreciation of the much-lauded printing language employed at Günther Zainer's Augsburg printing shop. The new findings are the result of an…
Before Goethe's »Werther« arrived on the scene, Sebastian Brant's (1457-1521) central work »The Ship of Fools« (1494ff.) was the most successful book ever published in German. In 112 chapters,…
One of the tasks the Lessing Academy has set itself is to investigate complex and controversial aspects of German-Jewish history in a way that reflects the multiplicity of contacts between…
Haskala is the Hebrew term for 'Enlightenment', which the Jerusalem symposium evolved in the facets of its evaluation. As a result the confrontation was resolved; there were conflicts, even…
To mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Moses Mendelssohn in 1986, the Lessing Academy in Wolfenbüttel organized a symposium for scholars from Germany and abroad. The results of this…
The articles in this volume are the fruits of an international interdisciplinary symposium. The influence of Matthias Claudius' work has remained tangible to the present day in German-speaking…
The late stages of the Enlightenment movement in Germany represent a challenge that German Studies has yet to respond to in an adequate manner. While the foundations and the practical…
Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) stands not only for the new identity achieved by an 'enlightened' Jewish élite but also (as this volume documents for the first time) for a new approach to '…
The book attempts a fundamental conceptualization of an epoch in musical history that has received relatively little attention and is usually referred to with makeshift designations like 'Sturm…
The role of Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782) in the 18th century has hitherto been largely defined in terms of its significance for the history of music. As one of the foremost libretto-writers he…
With 750 printed reviews of matters related to music, the Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek is a major source for the study of musical discourse in the Enlightenment. The central topic of the book…
Scherffer's work, written in 1640, was the first German translation of the Latin elegies composed by the Belgian Jesuit Hermann Hugo for his extremely popular and influential emblem book 'Pia…