The Complete Narrative Prose of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

The Complete Narrative Prose of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Author: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1976-03
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780838710364

Translation of the eleven novellas of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer from the German into English is the first attempt to make the entire body of his narrative prose available to the English reader in complete and unified form.

Encyclopedia of German Literature

Encyclopedia of German Literature
Author: Matthias Konzett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 3105
Release: 2015-05-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135941297

Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.

States of Unconsciousness in Three Tales by C.F. Meyer

States of Unconsciousness in Three Tales by C.F. Meyer
Author: Dennis McCort
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1988
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780838751305

Making a case for C. F. Meyer's predominantly deterministic world view, this study treats the theme of unconsciousness in three tales by exploring the governing principle of each tale's world: the metaphysical in Das Amulett, the religiomythic in Das Leiden eines Knaben, and the psychological in Gustav Adolfs Page.

Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Author: Marianne Burkhard
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1978
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780805763218

Nineteenth-century German Writers, 1841-1900

Nineteenth-century German Writers, 1841-1900
Author: Siegfried Mews
Publisher: Gale Research International, Limited
Total Pages: 560
Release: 1993
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of forty-two German writers active between 1841 and 1900; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography. Includes a cumulative index.

Reference Guide to World Literature

Reference Guide to World Literature
Author: Lesley Henderson
Publisher: Saint James Press
Total Pages: 808
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Overviews of writers and works from the ancient Greeks through the 20th century, written by subject experts. Each author entry provides a detailed overview of the writer's life and works. Work entries cover a particular piece of world literature in detail.

Three Swiss Realists--Gotthelf, Keller, and Meyer

Three Swiss Realists--Gotthelf, Keller, and Meyer
Author: Robert Godwin-Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1988
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This English introduction to the three major German Swiss writers of the nineteenth century focuses on them both as especially appropriate representatives of German literature for that period and as markedly Swiss writers with decidedly Swiss orientations. The text presents separate chapters on each of these writers followed by translations of representative novellas. It includes Gotthelf's Hans Joggeli, der Erbvetter, Keller's Pankraz der Schmoller and Der Schmied seines Gluckes, and Meyer's Die Hochzeit des Monchs.