Two Studies of Friedrich Holderlin shows how the poet enacts a radical theory of meaning that culminates in a unique and still groundbreaking concept of revolution, one that begins with a ...revolutionary understanding of language. The product of an intense engagement with both Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, the book presents Werner Hamacher's major attempts at developing a critical practice commensurate with the immensity of Holderlin's late writings. These essays offer an incisive and innovative combination of critical theory and deconstruction while also identifying where influential critics like Heidegger fail to do justice to the poet's astonishing radicality. Readers will not only come away with a new appreciation of Hlderlin's poetic and political-theoretical achievements but will also discover the motivating force behind Hamacher's own achievements as a literary scholar and political theorist. An introduction by Julia Ng and an afterword by Peter Fenves provide further information about these studies and the academic and theoretical context in which they were composed.
Welchen Beitrag haben die geistlichen Liederdichter des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit zur volkssprachlichen Aneignung lateinischer Hymnen und Sequenzen in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit ...geleistet? Auf diese Frage antwortet der Sammelband mit dreizehn exemplarischen Fallstudien zu so unterschiedlichen Verfasserinnen und Verfassern wie Walther von der Vogelweide, dem Kanzler, Mechthild von Magdeburg, Mechthild von Hackeborn, Gertrud von Helfta, dem Mönch von Salzburg, Hugo von Montfort, Oswald von Wolkenstein, Heinrich Laufenberg, Michael Beheim, Sebastian Brant und Hans Sachs, die sich im Medium der deutschen Sprache produktiv mit der Tradition des lateinischen liturgischen Lieds auseinandersetzten und so zur Vorgeschichte des Kirchenlieds beitrugen. Der Band fragt nach den rezeptions- und produktionsästhetischen Bedingungen und Leistungen der geistlichen Lieder, ihrer Position im Spannungsfeld von Liturgie und Volkssprache, ihren vielfachen intertextuellen Bezügen untereinander sowie nach den sozialen Milieus, in denen sie gedichtet und gesungen wurden. Der Band richtet sich nicht nur an die germanistische Mediävistik, sondern auch an die Liturgie-, Musik- und Geschichtswissenschaft.
This pocketsized paperback is one of the twentyfour titles published for 2017 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2017 is “Ancient Enmity". IPNHK is one of the most influential ...international poetry events in Asia. From 22–26 November 2017, over 20 invited poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong to read their works based on the theme “Ancient Enmity." Included in the anthology and box set, these unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats.
Here are verse translations, with original texts on facing pages, of representative lyrics by ninety-nine poets of the German Baroque. At its original publication, this volume by Schoolfield ...presented many of the poets to an English-speaking audience for the first time. An extensive introduction discusses the Baroque culture of the German-language realm and brief biographies of the poets conclude the volume.
La historia de las cuitas del joven Cardenio, cuyos orígenes se remontan a la Italia renacentista, ha sido fuente de inspiración para autores españoles (destacan Cervantes y Montalbán), franceses ...(Pichou), ingleses (Shakespeare y Fletcher) y alemanes (Gryphius, Arnim, Immermann). Este libro ofrece a los hispanohablantes estudiosos y curiosos la particular versión teatral de dicha historia a manos del más preclaro representante del barroco alemán, Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664). La rigurosa transposición se ha llevado a cabo a partir de un alemán imbricado en lo morfológico y semántico, y latinizante en la sintaxis. El estudio preliminar traza la vida y obra del autor y su época.
Desde un punto de vista comparatista, indaga en las fuentes y señala similitudes y diferencias en el tratamiento del fascinante personaje Cardenio, quien, sin llegar a la popularidad de Fausto o Don Juan, forma parte del patrimonio cultural europeo.Mientras Cervantes cierra el relato intercalado en el Quijote con el reencuentro feliz de las dos parejas previamente envueltas en engaños y complicaciones, Gryphius desarrolla la historia de sus amores desafortunados a la luz de la moral del protestantismo. Así, sus protagonistas Cardenio y Celinde acaban renunciando al amor terrenal, mientras Olympia, antes prometida del impetuoso Cardenio, acaba feliz con el rival de éste, el más astuto y comedido Lysander.Gryphius tiende a lo sobrenatural y a lo macabro, creando una atmósfera netamente gótica. Abundan los motivos barrocos como vanitas, memento mori, tempus fugit y carpe diem, situados en un ambiente sepulcral tan fascinante como terrorífico. Texto de la editorial
This article focuses on four poems written in Half-German by three Baltic German authors: ‘Die Oberpahlsche Freundschaft’ (1818/1857) by Jakob Johann Malm, ‘Karluscha Tattelbaum’ (1903) and ‘Benjamin ...Paul Püttisepp’ (1909) by Arthur Usthal, and ‘Reise ins Ausland’ (1954) by Walter von Wistinghausen. Literature written in Half-German emerged in a particular socio-historical and linguistic context, which is outlined in the first part of the article. The focus of this article is on the nineteenth century – the heyday of this literary tradition. All four poems will be discussed in the context of carnival culture according to Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of popular culture.
Following his previous translation of one hundred of Goethe's poems, in this volume Zeydel presents translations of a selection of Goethe's shorter poems, the majority of which were written in the ...last twenty years of his life. The translator gives careful attention to details of substance, form and style, and to the spirit of the original, reproducing the simplicity and naturalness of language so characteristic of Goethe. The original text in German appears on facing pages.
We introduce childPoeDE: the first corpus of German poetry for children comprising poems which are still read today and cover a wide range of topics and authors. ChildPoeDE contains poem texts and ...both poem-level and token-level metadata. Poem-level metadata includes information about the anthologies and authors, quantitative text features, rhyme and lexical richness. Token-level metadata covers word length, position and frequency, parts-of-speech, onomatopoeia and sonority. This corpus can be used for computational text analysis, but also as a source for stimulus material in experimental studies. The corpus metadata is freely accessible via Zenodo. The poem texts are protected by copyright.
Rufus Hallmark's book explores Robert Schumann's beloved yet controversial song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben and the poems of Adelbert von Chamisso on which it is based, setting them in the context of ...the challenges and social expectations faced by women in early nineteenth-century Germany. Hallmark provides the most extensive English-language study of Chamisso, a poet little known today outside Germany, including a biographical sketch and excerpts from his other poetry. He examines a range of poems about women, by Chamisso and others, and discusses the reception of the poetic and musical cycles, including illustrated editions, contemporary reviews, and other musical settings. Based on new studies of Schumann's manuscript sources and on comparative analyses of his songs and settings by Carl Loewe, Heinrich Marschner, Franz Lachner and others, Hallmark provides fresh musical and interpretive insights into each song.
