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German Baroque literature : the European perspective
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- Creator
- edited by Gerhart Hoffmeister
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Ungar Pub. Co., ©1983
- Physical Details
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- vi, 377 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 0804423946, 9780804423946, 0804462798, 9780804462792
- OCLC
- ocm08494551, ocm08494551
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Also issued online.
- 1. The background to the literary epoch: Renaissance, mannerism, Baroque / Gerald Gillespie -- Poetic theory and logical tradition / Friedrich Gaede -- The Thirty Years War and its impact on literature / Michael M. Metzger and Erika A. Metzger -- The emblematic tradition and Baroque poetry / Peter M. Daly -- Baroque philology: the position of German in the European family of languages / Peter Schaeffer -- 2. The comparative view: Neo-Latin tradition and vernacular poetry / Leonard Forster -- Spain in German literature of the seventeenth century / Barbara Becker-Cantarino -- The French model / Janis L. Solomon -- The English comedians in Germany / Gerhart Hoffmeister -- The Dutch example / Robert R. Heitner -- Excursus: German Baroque literature in colonial America / Christoph E. Schweitzer -- 3. Great topics of the age: Love: from Petrarchism to eroticism / Hans Wagener -- Vanity and constancy / Giles R. Hoyt -- Illusion and reality / Peter Skrine -- Courtly and anticourtly literature / Erika A. Metzger and Michael M. Metzger -- The mystical quest for God / Joseph B. Dallett -- 4. The rise of the modern genres: The European novel in seventeenth-century Germany: a decade of research (1970-80) / The changes of the moon: lyric poetry -tradition and transformation / George C. Schoolfield -- The development of the vernacular drama / Barton W. Browning -- The tradition of the Baroque / Alberto Martino