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1 online resource (361 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: Social Meanings in Literature; Part I: Studies on the European Drama and Novel from the Renaissance to the Threshold of Modernity; 1 The Spanish Dramatists; Lope de Vega, 1562-1635; Calderon, 1600-1681; 2 Cervantes, 1547-1616; Mobility: Sancho Panza; Creativity: Dulcinea; Property: The Gypsies; Justice: Don Quixote; 3 Shakespeare's The Tempest; The Concept of Human Nature; Five Themes on the Island; Secularized Humility; Excursus A: The Tempest, Act I, Scene 1; 4 The Classical French Theater |
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Corneille, 1606-1684Racine, 1639-1699; Molière, 1622-1673; 5 From Werther to Wilhelm Meister; Individualism and the Middle Class; Werther: The Dislocated Individual; Wilhelm Meister: The Integrated Individual; World Literature and Popular Culture; 6 Henrik Ibsen, 1828-1906; Private Life and Social Forces; The Dilemma of Freedom and Necessity; Excursus B: Note on August Strindberg; 7 Knut Hamsun, 1860-1952; Nature; Hero Worship; Urban Society; Nihilism; Part II: Studies on the German Novel in the Nineteenth Century; 8 Romanticism: Revolution Repressed |
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9 "Young Germany": Prehistory of Bourgeois Consciousness10 Eduard Mörike: Troubled Embourgeoisement; 11 Gustav Freytag: Bourgeois Materialism; 12 Friedrich Spielhagen: Bourgeois Idealism; 13 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer: Apologia of the Upper Class; 14 Gottfried Keller: Bourgeois Repression; Afterword: From Helmut Dubiel, Editor of the German Edition of This Volume |
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Literature and society -- Europe
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European literature -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
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European literature
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Literature and society
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Europe
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351508544 |
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1351508547 |
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