The German Verse Epic in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The almost complete disregard of the verse epic as a genre still worthy of meaningful discussion and earnest investigation is all too apparent in German literary criticism. The only attempt to view the genre in its evolution through the centuries is Heinrich Maiworm's valuable but necessarily s...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1967, 1967
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Edition: | 1st ed. 1967 |
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Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I. The Viability of the Epic
- II. After 1848 and during the “Gründerjahre”: The Flight from Reality
- III. The Idyll: A World within the World
- IV. History
- V. The Creation of new Myths and the Reappearance of the Epic Imagination
- Conclusion