Die Harzreise

Die Harzreise
Author: Heinrich Heine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1889
Genre: German language
ISBN:

Reading Heinrich Heine

Reading Heinrich Heine
Author: Anthony Phelan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2007-03-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139460706

This book is a comprehensive study of the nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine. Anthony Phelan examines the complete range of Heine's work, from the early poetry and 'Pictures of Travel' to the last poems, including personal polemic and journalism. Phelan provides original and detailed readings of Heine's major poetry and throws fresh light on his virtuoso political performances that have too often been neglected by critics. Through his critical relationship with Romanticism, Heine confronted the problem of modernity in startlingly original ways that still speak to the concerns of post-modern readers. Phelan highlights the importance of Heine for the critical understanding of modern literature, and in particular the responses to Heine's work by Adorno, Kraus and Benjamin. Heine emerges as a figure of immense European significance, whose writings need to be seen as a major contribution to the articulation of modernity.

Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine
Author: Jeffrey L. Sammons
Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2006
Genre:
ISBN: 9783826032127

Humor, Satire, and Identity

Humor, Satire, and Identity
Author: Jill E. Twark
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2007
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9783110195996

Explores the Eastern German literary trend of the 1990s employing humor and satire to come to terms with socialism's failure and a difficult unification process. This title surveys ten novels including, works by Brussig, Schulze, and Hensel. These contemporary texts help define Germany today from a specific, East German perspective.

Die Harzreise

Die Harzreise
Author: Heinrich Heine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 122
Release: 1889
Genre: Harz Mountains (Germany)
ISBN:

Heine's Harzreise

Heine's Harzreise
Author: Heinrich Heine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1886
Genre: Harz Mountains (Germany)
ISBN:

A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine

A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine
Author: Roger F. Cook
Publisher: Camden House
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781571132079

As the most prominent German-Jewish Romantic writer, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) became a focal point for much of the tension generated by the Jewish assimilation to German culture in a time marked by a growing emphasis on the shared ancestry of the German Volk. As both an ingenious composer of Romantic verse and the originator of modernist German prose, he defied nationalist-Romantic concepts of creative genius that grounded German greatness in an idealist tradition of Dichter und Denker. And as a brash, often reckless champion of freedom and social justice, he challenged not only the reactionary ruling powers of Restoration Germany but also the incipient nationalist ideology that would have fateful consequences for the new Germany--consequences he often portended with a prophetic vision born of his own experience. Reaching to the heart of the `German question,' the controversies surrounding Heine have been as intense since his death as they were in his own lifetime, often serving as an acid test for important questions of national and social consciousness. This new volume of essays by scholars from Germany, Britain, Canada, and the United States offers new critical insights on key recurring issues in his work: the symbiosis of German and Jewish culture; emerging nationalism among the European peoples; critical views of Romanticism and modern philosophy; European culture on the threshold to modernity; irony, wit, and self-critique as requisite elements of a modern aesthetic; changing views on teleology and the dialectics of history; and final thoughts and reconsiderations from his last, prolonged years in a sickbed. Contributors: Michael Perraudin, Paul Peters, Roger F. Cook, Willi Goetschel, Gerhard Höhn, Paul Reitter, Robert C. Holub, Jeffrey Grossman, Anthony Phelan, Joseph A. Kruse, and George F. Peters. Roger F. Cook is professor of German at the University of Missouri, Columbia.