It is a common misunderstanding to situate the origin of the novel in early 18th-century English literature. For precisely the most accomplished and important representative thereof, Henry Fielding (1707-1754) with his Tom Jones in particular, can be shown to have been rooted, and most deeply at that, in the history of the European novel since Greek and Roman antiquity. The study uncovers these roots and traces this history from the 2nd century onward, discussing, on the one hand, Heliodorus’s Aithiopika («Egyptian Stories») and, on the other, Apuleius’s Asinus aureus («The Golden Ass») and investigating their enormous impact on European letters. In a manner of speaking, Heliodorus founded the courtly-heroic novel of the Baroque, which flourished mainly in France and Germany, while Apuleius founded the picaresque novel, which originated in Spain, but also flourished in Germany (Grimmelshausen) and France as well as in England. Cervantes – not only with his Don Quixote but likewise with his unduly neglected Persiles y Sigismunda – partook of both strands of this international development that culminated in Fielding’s masterwork of 1749. Thus, Tom Jones constitutes the final joinder of one and a half millennia of novel-writing in Europe; in fact, it even includes the respective theory.

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A collection of poems in both German and English by Enzensberger, a poet who matured during the turbulent political and social years of the Third Reich. (view table of contents)

Philosophical Writings, part of the German Library Series contains essential portions of the theses that make Nietzsche the most controversial of philosophers. It includes: The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, The Gay Science, Untimely Meditations, Human, All too Human, and other works. Included are Preface to Richard Wagner, On Truth and Falsity in their Extramortal Sense, The History of an Error, We Antipodes, Geneaology of Morals: A Polemic, and On the Pathos of Truth. Although his reputation has bordered on notoriety, Nietzsche's influence has unquestionably not diminished with time, and our fascination with him will be further fed by the publication of this volume.

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Product Description: Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946) is generally considered a pioneer of modern drama. He was praised by Rilke, Thomas Mann, and James Joyce among his contemporaries for his versatility, innovativeness, and realism. This Nobel Prize-winning author is here represented by three of his best-loved plays...read more

Product Description: This multidisciplinary collection of readings offers suggestive new interpretations of Richard Wagner’s ideological position in German history.  The issues discussed range from the biographical—the reasons for Wagner’s travels, his spotted political life—to the aesthetic and ideological, regarding his re-creation of medieval Nuremberg, his representations of gender and nationality, his vocal iconography, his anti-Semitism, and his vegetarianarguments, and, finally, his musical heirs...read more

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