1st Edition

Reason and Energy Studies in German Literature

By Michael Hamburger Copyright 1957
322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1957, this volume brings together a collection of essays and hard to source translations on both well and lesser known German writers and poets, including Hölderlin, Benn, Mann and Nietzsche. The essays are linked by a consideration of the tension between the desire for what Thomas Mann called ‘the miracle of ingeniousness regained’ and the constrains of reason. The book... 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

Raymond Furness was at the Universities of Manchester and St. Andrews