UID:
almafu_9960117069402883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 400 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-57113-603-7
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (ca. 1621-1676) is the most significant (and still readable) author of seventeenth-century German novels. His 〈I〉Abenteuerlicher Simplicius Simplicissimus〈/I〉remains the one German novel of its time that has attained the stature of "world literature": its unique mix of violent action and solitary reflection, its superlative humor, its realistic portrayalof a peasant turned soldier turned hermit has made it the longest-running bestseller in German literature. Read by students and scholars in comparative literature, history, and German, and by those interested in the development of the picaresque novel in Europe, the work and its "Continuations" have increasingly occupied scholars around the world, who have in recent years shown it to be a work ofsubtle structure and characterization, bearing the imprint of the most advanced political thinking of the time, and showing the influences of some of the most significant works of world literature, including Cervantes' 〈I〉Don Quixote〈/I〉 and Barclay's 〈I〉Argenis〈/I〉. This volume of essays by leading Grimmelshausen scholars from Germany, the United States, and England provides analyses of significant topics in his life and works, including questions of genre, structure, satire, allegory, narratology, political thought, religion, morality, humor, realism, and mortality.〈BR〉 Contributors: Christoph E. Schweitzer, Italo Michele Battafarano, Klaus Haberkamm, Rosmarie Zeller, Andreas Solbach, Dieter Breuer, Lynne Tatlock, Peter Hess, Shannon Keenan Greene, and Alan Menhennet.〈BR〉〈BR〉 KarlF. Otto is Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania and has written extensively on German Baroque literature.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 May 2017).
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""CONTENTS ""; ""ILLUSTRATIONS ""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ""; ""CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF GRIMMELSHAUSEN'S WORKS AND THEIR FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""I. Basics""; ""Problems in the Editions of Grimmelshausen's Works""; ""Grimmelshausen's "Autobiographies" and the Art of the Novel""; ""Allegorical and Astrological Forms in the Works of Grimmelshausen with Special Emphasis on the Prophecy Motif""; ""Grimmelshausen and the Picaresque Novel""; ""Grimmelshausen's Ewig-währender Calender: A Labyrinth of Knowledge and Reading""; ""Grimmelshausen's Non-Simplician Novels""
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""In Grimmelshausen's Tracks: The Literary and Cultural Legacy""; ""II. Critical Approaches""; ""Engendering Social Order: From Costume Autobiography to Conversation Games in Grimmelshausen's Simpliciana""; ""The Poetics of Masquerade: Clothin gand the Construction of Social, Religious, and Gender Identity in Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus""; """To see from these black lines": The Mise en Livre of the Phoenix Copperplate and Other Grimmelshausen Illustrations""; ""The Search for Freedom: Grimmelshausen's Simplician Weltanschauung""; ""CONTRIBUTORS ""; ""INDEX ""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-57113-184-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781571136039
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