'Relations Stop Nowhere': The Common Literary Foundations of German and American Literature 1830-1917Rodopi, 2007 - 317 עמודים This book attempts for the first time a comparative literary history of Germany and the USA in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its material does not come from the familiar overlaps of individual German and American writers, but from the work of the literary historians of the two countries after 1815, when American intellectuals took Germany as a model for their project to create an American national literature. The first part of the book examines fundamental structural affinities between the two literary histories and the common problems these caused, especially in questions of canon, realism, aesthetics and in the marginalization of popular and women's writing. In the second part, significant figures whose work straddle the two literatures - from Sealsfield and Melville, Whitman and Thomas Mann to Nietzsche, Emerson and Bellow - are discussed in detail, and the arguments of the first part are shown in their relevance to understanding major writers. This book is not merely comparative in scope: it shows that only international comparison can explain the course of American literary history in the nineteenth and twentieth century. As recent developments in American Studies explore the multi-cultural and 'hybrid' nature of the American tradition, this book offers evidence of the dependencies which linked American and German national literary history. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 59
עמוד 5
... Fontane and Emerson More Considerations of Genre: The Romance Final Thoughts: Aesthetics and Religion 33 38 43 47 47 49 56 58 67 70 74 77 80 84 91 98 100 102 109 111 6 Chapter 6: Exclusions from the Canon Popular Literature Women.
... Fontane and Emerson More Considerations of Genre: The Romance Final Thoughts: Aesthetics and Religion 33 38 43 47 47 49 56 58 67 70 74 77 80 84 91 98 100 102 109 111 6 Chapter 6: Exclusions from the Canon Popular Literature Women.
עמוד 6
... Popular Literature Women in the Two Literary Histories Chapter 7: Literary History and Anthropology Literature and Anthropology from the Early Days Volkskunde Kultur and Zivilisation The Last Twenty Years 119 119 130 139 141 147 156 163 ...
... Popular Literature Women in the Two Literary Histories Chapter 7: Literary History and Anthropology Literature and Anthropology from the Early Days Volkskunde Kultur and Zivilisation The Last Twenty Years 119 119 130 139 141 147 156 163 ...
עמוד 17
... popularity with that public . It was for that reason that both the Young Germans and the early advocates of American national literature ( notably the Southern novelist John Neal ) were anxious to see a shift from the dominance of ...
... popularity with that public . It was for that reason that both the Young Germans and the early advocates of American national literature ( notably the Southern novelist John Neal ) were anxious to see a shift from the dominance of ...
עמוד 21
... popular support or been sympathetic to established members of the literary historical institution. An example of this process is the use of national cultural values for the preparation of specific wars, such as that of 1914.25 It is ...
... popular support or been sympathetic to established members of the literary historical institution. An example of this process is the use of national cultural values for the preparation of specific wars, such as that of 1914.25 It is ...
עמוד 25
... popularity in the early years of the Federal Republic , but the formulation , let alone the idea , was much older than the book . 38 David Blackbourn's warning will haunt me throughout this book . Analyzing the place of the Sonderweg in ...
... popularity in the early years of the Federal Republic , but the formulation , let alone the idea , was much older than the book . 38 David Blackbourn's warning will haunt me throughout this book . Analyzing the place of the Sonderweg in ...
תוכן
7 | |
33 | |
47 | |
Democracy and Realism | 67 |
Hunting for American Aesthetics | 91 |
Literary History and Anthropology | 139 |
47 | 158 |
67 | 165 |
American Idylls beyond Buffalo Bill | 201 |
74 | 242 |
Emerson in the German and American Traditions | 247 |
84 | 250 |
Bibliography | 283 |
91 | 291 |
98 | 306 |
Index | 309 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
'Relations Stop Nowhere': The Common Literary Foundations of German and ... <span dir=ltr>Hugh Ridley</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2007 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
academic aesthetic Alkalde American critics American culture American literary history American literature American Studies anthropology approach argument artistic Beißel Biedermeier canon chapter Charles Sealsfield civilization classic colonial contemporary context critique democracy democratic discussion Doktor Faustus elements Emerson Emerson and Nietzsche essay Europe European exotic experience fact focus Fontane forms Franz Boas Friedrich Gerstäcker frontier German and American German literature Germanistik Gerstäcker Gervinus Goethe Goethe's Grimm historians Howard Mumford Jones human ideas identified identity ideological important instance intellectuals less Madame de Staël Mann's Melville merely modern moral Morse national culture national literature nature Nietzsche and Emerson Nietzsche's nineteenth century novel observed Paulding political popular prairie primitive problems question radical readers realism reality relationship religious remarks represented Riehl Sealsfield sense shows social society story theme Thomas Mann tradition understanding University Press utopian Van Wyck Brooks vision Volkskunde Vormärz Whitman writers
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עמוד 105 - What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin, the milk in the pan, the ballad in the street, the news of the boat, the glance of the eye, the form and the gait of the body...
עמוד 106 - The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power. It is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products. A strange process too, this, by which experience is converted into thought, as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin. The manufacture goes forward at all hours.
עמוד 52 - ... no natural, bestow no factitious advantages beyond those which are inseparable from the rights of property, and general civilization. In a democracy, men are just as free to aim at the highest attainable places in society, as to obtain the largest fortunes; and it would be clearly...
עמוד 104 - Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
עמוד 119 - A guard! Well, that is good. So somebody's got to set up all night and never get any sleep, just so as to watch them. I think that's foolishness. Why can'ta body take a club and ransom them as soon as they get here?
עמוד 201 - A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
עמוד 30 - I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought there the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions...
עמוד 65 - The soul of the largest and wealthiest and proudest nation may well go half-way to meet that of its poets. The signs are effectual. There is no fear of mistake. If the one is true the other is true. The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.