The Cambridge history of German literature / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

By:

Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen [author]

Publisher: Cambridge, U.K : Cambridge University Press, 2000Description: 614 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780521785730
0521785731

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

830.9 WAT 23

Summary: This is the first book to describe German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990.It takes a fresh look at the main authors and movements, and also asks what Germans in a given period were actually reading and writing, what they would have seen at the local theatre or found in the local lending library; it includes, for example, discussions of literature in Latin as well as in German, eighteenth-century letters and popular novels, Nazi literature and radio plays, and modern Swiss and Austrian literature. A new prominence is given to writing by women. Contributors, all leading scholars in their field, have re-examined standard judgements in writing a history for our own times.The book is designed for the general reader as well as the advanced student: titles and quotations are translated, and there is a comprehensive bibliography.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Anna Centenary Library	830.9 WAT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	240053

This is the first book to describe German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990.It takes a fresh look at the main authors and movements, and also asks what Germans in a given period were actually reading and writing, what they would have seen at the local theatre or found in the local lending library; it includes, for example, discussions of literature in Latin as well as in German, eighteenth-century letters and popular novels, Nazi literature and radio plays, and modern Swiss and Austrian literature. A new prominence is given to writing by women. Contributors, all leading scholars in their field, have re-examined standard judgements in writing a history for our own times.The book is designed for the general reader as well as the advanced student: titles and quotations are translated, and there is a comprehensive bibliography.

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