A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine

Edited by Cook, Roger F.

As the most prominent German-Jewish Romantic writer, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) became a focal point for much of the tension generated by the Jewish assimilation to German culture in a time marked by a growing emphasis on the shared ancestry of the German Volk. As both an ingenious composer of Romantic verse and the originator of modernist German prose, he defied nationalist-Romantic concepts of creative genius that grounded German greatness in an idealist tradition of Dichter und Denker. And as a brash, often reckless champion of freedom and social justice, he challenged not only the reactionary ruling powers of Restoration Germany but also the incipient nationalist ideology that would have fateful consequences for the new Germany--consequences he often portended with a prophetic vision born of his own experience. Reaching to the heart of the 'German question,' the controversies surrounding Heine have been as intense since his death as they were in his own lifetime, often serving as an acid test for important questions of national and social consciousness. This new volume of essays by scholars from Germany, Britain, Canada, and the United States offers new critical insights on key recurring issues in his work: the symbiosis of German and Jewish culture; emerging nationalism among the European peoples; critical views of Romanticism and modern philosophy; European culture on the threshold to modernity; irony, wit, and self-critique as requisite elements of a modern aesthetic; changing views on teleology and the dialectics of history; and final thoughts and reconsiderations from his last, prolonged years in a sickbed. Contributors: Michael Perraudin, Paul Peters, Roger F. Cook, Willi Goetschel, Gerhard Hohn, Paul Reitter, Robert C. Holub, Jeffrey Grossman, Anthony Phelan, Joseph A. Kruse, and George F. Peters. Roger F. Cook is professor of German at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

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  • Illusions lost and found - the experiential world of Heine's "Buch der Lieder", Michael Perraudin
  • a walk on the wild side - Heine's eroticism, Paul Peters
  • the riddle of love - romantic poetry and historical progress, Roger F. Cook
  • nightingales instead of owls - Heine's joyous philosophy, Willi Goetschel
  • eternal return or indiscernible progress? Heine's conception of history after 1848, Gerhard Hoehn
  • Heinrich Heine and the discourse of mythology, Paul Reitter
  • troubled apostate - Heine's conversion and its consequences, Robert C. Holub
  • Heine and Jewish culture - the poetics of appropriation, Jeffrey A. Grossman
  • Mathilde's interruption - archetypes of modernity in Heine's later poetry, Anthony Phelan
  • late thoughts - reconsiderations from the "Matratzengruft", Joseph A. Kruse
  • Heine and Weimar, George F. Peters.

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書名 A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine
著作者等 Cook, Roger F.
シリーズ名 Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
出版元 Camden House Inc
刊行年月 2002.07.15
ページ数 392p
大きさ H229 x W152
ISBN 9781571132079
ISSN 14770709
言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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