Germanic and its Dialects

Germanic and its Dialects
Author:
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 554
Release: 1977-12-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027274142

Germanists have long lamented the lack of comprehensive bibliographies of past and present literature, particularly in the areas of Frisian, Old English, Old High German, and, most notably, Old Saxon. The compilers of this bibliography deem it crucial to fill this lacuna before embarking on two further volumes project to complete this series: I. Texts, and II. Maps and Commentaries. NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: The publication of the two further volumes (I. Texts; II. Maps and Commentaries) has been canceled.

W.G. Sebald

W.G. Sebald
Author: Ben Hutchinson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2009
Genre: German literature
ISBN: 3110223430

This book uses the annotations in W.G. Sebald's private library (held in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach) to construct an interpretation of his prose style as fundamentally dialectical. Alongside his readings of writers such as Benjamin, Bernhard, Bassani, and Lévi-Strauss, it uses in particular Adorno's and Horkheimer's "Dialektik der Aufklärung" to help develop a close reading of Sebald's syntax and narrative structures. The key concern of Sebald's prose emerges not as the Holocaust, but rather the dialectical processes of ,progress' and ,regression' inherent in history.

Our Forefathers

Our Forefathers
Author: Gudmund Schutte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2013-11-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1107674786

First published in 1933, this book forms one of two volumes on the ethnography of the Gothic, German, Dutch, Anglo-Saxon, Frisian and Scandinavian peoples.

The Reception of English Literature in Germany

The Reception of English Literature in Germany
Author: Lawrence Marsden Price
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0520349628

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1932.

Word Origins...And How We Know Them

Word Origins...And How We Know Them
Author: Anatoly Liberman
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2009-03-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0195387074

A guide to the science and process of etymology for the layperson explains how the origins and history of hundreds of words are determined, discussing such topics as folk etymology, changes of meaning in language history, borrowed words, and the methods of etymology.