 | Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's `Lanzelet': Narrative Style and Entertainment (Arthurian Studies)
Publication Date: December 7, 2000| Series: Arthurian Studies (Book 45) Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, written around the turn of the thirteenth century, has long intrigued scholars both within and outside German studies: the only remaining trace of a Lancelot legend free of the adulterous affair with Guinevere, it has been seen both as a precursor of classical Arthurian romance in Germany, and as a post-classical imitation, and attempts to interpret it have often run foul of its contradictions. This new study takes a fresh look at its place in the history of German romance, arguing that...
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|  | Die Birnen Von Ribbeck (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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|  | Fredy Neptune: A Novel In Verse
Publication Date: February 17, 1999A riveting, beautiful novel in verse by Australia's greatest contemporary poet, winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize.I never learned the old top ropes,I was always in steam. Less capstan, less climbing,more re-stowing cargo. Which could be hard and slowas farming- but to say Why this is Valparaiso!Or: I'm in Singapore and know my way abouttakes a long time to get stale.-from Book I, "The Middle Sea"When German-Australian sailor Friedrich "Fredy" Boettcher is shanghaied aboard a German Navy battleship at the outbreak of World War I, the sight of frenzied mob...
|  | Down to My Last Skin (Random poets)
Publication Date: May 22, 2009| Series: Random Poets This is the first collection of Antjie Krog's poetry to appear in English, and it cements her reputation as one of South Africa's greatest poets. Down to My Last Skin is her poetic exploration of her different identities, the layers that make the human condition so intricate, fragile and yet resilient.The collection is divided into seven clear sections which explore layers in Krog's life, and those in every individual.Down to My Last Skin was the inaugural winner of the FNB Vita Poetry Award in 2000. From Down to My Last Skin, p. 80(n) nei...
| | Der Welsche Gast/ The Italian Guest (Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions)
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|  | Nelly Sachs, Flight and Metamorphosis: An Illustrated Biography
Publication Date: February 1, 2012This richly illustrated biography is the first book in English to chronicle the life of Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature. The book follows Sachs from her secluded years in Berlin as the only child of assimilated German Jews, through her last-minute flight from the Nazis in 1940, to her exile in "peaceful Sweden"—a time of poverty and isolation, but also of growing fame. Enriched by over 300 images of Sachs's manuscripts, photographs, and possessions, Flight and Metamorphosis not only offers detailed insight...
| | The German Lied and Its Poetry
Publication Date: October 1, 1971Most Lieder composers chose their texts with great care, selecting only the better poems of the most significant poets. They hoped to endow these poems with music tha would enhance the words and thus make the poem more expressive.Since Professor Brody teaches music and Professor Fowkes teaches German the reader id offered a complete examination of Lieder from both an analysis of the musical score and the text of the poetry.The authors examine selected lieder from Mozart through Berg. After a brief summary of the formal contributions of the Minnesingers and Me...
|  | Frauenlob's Song of Songs: A Medieval German Poet And His Masterpiece
Publication Date: January 30, 2007'Frauenlob' was the stage name of Heinrich von Meissen (c. 1260-1318), a medieval German poet-minstrel. A famous and controversial figure in his day, Frauenlob (meaning "praise of ladies") exercised a strong influence on German literature into the eighteenth century. This book introduces the poet to English-speaking readers with a fresh poetic translation of his masterpiece, the Marienleich--a virtuosic poem of over 500 lines in praise of the Virgin Mary. Barbara Newman, known for her pathbreaking translation of Hildegard of Bingen's Symphonia, brill...
|  | Von Der Deutschen Klassik Bis Zum Naturalismus: An Anthology of German Literature
Publication Date: July 1998PUBLISHED IN GERMAN. This volume, with its emphasis oncomplete texts, offers the classics Iphigenie auf Tauris, Der blondeEckbert, Der goldne Topf, Woyzeck, Deutschland, Ein Wintermarchen,Granit, Die Judenbuche, Maria Magdalena, Romeo und Julia auf demDorfe, Bahnwarter Thiel, and Die Familie Selicke in completeversions. In addition, there are nearly 100 pages of poetry, fromGoethe, Schiller, and Holderlin via the Romantics and Young Germans tothe Realists and Naturalists, all chosen because they represent theirtimes or the literary movements to which they belonged....
|  | Mark Und Bein (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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|  | Saracens and Conversion: Chivalric Ideals in Aliscans and Wolfram's Willehalm (Studies in Old Germanic Languages and Literature)
Publication Date: May 21, 2012| ISBN-10: 3034307810 | ISBN-13: 978-3034307819At the heart of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm are Saracens: instrumental figures in the driving themes of conquest, loyalty, vassalage, chivalry, love-service and redemption that run through the text. When compared with Wolfram's French sources, La Prise d'Orange and Aliscans, Willehalm is revealed to be innovative yet true to the themes and figures of the original chansons de geste, indicating that Wolfram continued the retelling process that also played a part in the composition of his French sources. Thi...
|  | Faust I and II (Goethe's Collected Works, Volume 2)
Publication Date: September 1984Goethe's most complex and profound work, Faust was the effort of the great poet's entire lifetime. Written over 60 years, it can be read as a document of Goethe's moral and artistic development. Faust is made available to the English reader in a completely new translation that communicates both its poetic variety and its many levels of tone. The language is present-day English, and Goethe's formal and rhythmic variety is reproduced in all its richness. ...
|  | Shibboleth (Oxford Paperbacks)
Publication Date: December 15, 1988| Series: Oxford Paperbacks This is Michael Donaghy's first full-length collection of verse.The critic Alfred Corn commented, "Michael Donaghy's poems have the fine-tuned precision of a ten-speed bike...Poems so original, wry, and philosophical as this are hard to come by.Don't think of passing them up." ...
|  | A. Sutzkever: Selected Poetry and Prose
Publication Date: April 16, 1991The work of A. Sutzkever, one of the major twentieth-century masters of verse and the last of the great Yiddish poets, is presented to the English reader in this banquet of poetry, narrative verse, and poetic fiction. Sutzkever's imposing body of work links images from Israel's present and past with the extinction of the Jews of Europe and with deeply personal reflection on human existence.In Sutzkever's poetry the Yiddish language attains a refinement, richness of sound, and complexity of meaning unknown before. His poetry has been translated into many langua...
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|  | Oya (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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| | Wandering: Notes and Sketches
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|  | With Everything We've Got: A Personal Anthology of Yiddish Poetry
Publication Date: February 2, 2009In With Everything We've Got, translator and poet Richard J. Fein introduces English-speaking audiences to some of the most poignant and passionate voices of the twentieth century. This outstanding collection features the work of fifteen acclaimed Yiddish poets, and includes the translator's own poetic responses to their verse, and to the act of translation itself. The poems offer nuanced experiments in form, thoughtful meditations on the fate of the Yiddish language, and reflections on a diverse range of themes and concerns, from the joys and hardships of i...
|  | After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets (Facing Pages)
Publication Date: October 4, 2004| Series: Facing Pages They are nine women with much in common--all German speaking, all poets, all personal witnesses to the horror and devastation that was World War II. Yet, in this deeply moving collection, each provides a singularly personal glimpse into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood. After Every War is a book of translations of women poets living in Europe in the decades before and after World War II: Rose Ausländer, Elisabeth Langgässer, Nelly Sachs, Gertrud Kolmar, Else Lasker-Schüler, Ingeborg Bachmann, M...
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