1st Edition
Counterparts The Dynamics of Franco-German Literary Relationships 1770-1895
By Lilian R. Furst
Copyright 1977
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1977, this volume gives a co-hesive overview of Franco-German literary relationships between 1770 and 1895. It discerns the dynamics and outlines the structure of the interrelationship. The two literatures develop in a broadly similar direction in the nineteenth century, but there is a puzzling time-lag which forms the focal point of enquiry. It looks back to the... Read more
1. An Introduction: Naturalism and Its Decline 2. Jung-Wien 3. Aestheticism, Decadence and Neo-Romanticism in Germany 4. The Cosmic Dimension 5. Modernism and ‘Sprachkrise’ 6. The Problem of Expressionism 7. The 1920s and 1930s 8. Barbarism, Exile and Return
Biography
Lilian R. Furst was Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Texas, Dallas
