Books in the Anglica Germanica Series 2 series

In this 1982 book, Professor Bance sets the novels of Theodor Fontane in the context of nineteenth-century Europe in order to demonstrate that his oeouvre can be seen in terms of a tension between a desire to present the facts and a desire to assert some transcendent poetic truth.

This 1974 book was the first full-length treatment in English of the poetry of Else Lasker-Schuler (1869-1945), a German-Jewish poet who died in exile in Jerusalem. The aim of the author, a practising psychologist, was to see poetry as an expression of the deeper urges of the psyche.

The essays reprinted in this 1980 book were first published at various times between 1951 and 1972. They deal largely with medieval German heroic and epic poetry, emphasising the way the basic language and imagery of that literature were rooted in a deep understanding and appreciation of the natural world.

At a time when German was despised as barbaric, Salomon Gessner was hailed as a poet of universal significance. Yet today he is scarcely known. This 1976 book contextualises the writer, traces the story of his impact and stresses his significance as a key to the taste of his age.

Rilke's Gedichte an die Nacht are important because their composition was contemporary with his Duinese Elegien, and they show the poet at work on ideas and motifs which are central to these elegies. The first part of the book analyses the poems thematically, whilst the second gives the results of this analysis wider application.

Professor Mowatt's edition of Friderich von Husen's poetry comprises a reprint of the two Middle High German manuscripts in which it is preserved, together with introduction, commentary and glossary. Von Husen, twelfth-century Minnesinger, was a knight from Kreuznach in Rhine Franconia and died on a crusade to the Holy Land.

Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm and the Old French chanson de geste, La Bataille d'Aliscans, on which it was based, recount the tale of Guillaume de'Orange's defeat of the Saracens at the battle of Aliscans. This 1972 book examines Wolfram's use of his source material, concentrating on episodes in which Rennewart figures.

This 1981 book is concerned with the part which the visual arts played in Goethe's life and thought from his earliest years to the end of his visit to Italy. It should be of interest both to students of German literature and to art history students. All German quotations have been translated to English.

This 1982 book was the first monograph in English to offer a critical study of an important twentieth-century German novelist, Arno Schmidt. He aroused large-scale public interest with the publication of a gigantic prose work, Zettel's Traum, in 1970 and developed a cult following which survived his death.

A study of the nineteenth-century German writer Friedrich Hebbel, concentrating on his tragedies in prose, and examining in particular the way in which the language is used to convey Hebbel's beliefs, attitudes and intellectual preoccupations and also the dramatic effects. The three tragedies Judith, Maria Magdalene and Agnes Bernauer are studied in turn.

A comprehensive study of the art and thought of George Buchner.

This study analyses the emergence of aesthetic theory in eighteenth-century Germany in relation to contemporary theories of the nature of language and signs. As well as being extremely relevant to the discussion of literary theory, this perspective casts much light on Enlightenment aesthetics.

Although Adalbert Stifter (1808-68) has long been recognised as a key figure in nineteenth-century German prose writing, his literary reputation has been curiously volatile. This major 1984 study was a reassessment of Stifter's work within the context of the tradition of nineteenth-century European fictional prose.

Prepared for publication by Martin Swales and Siegbert Prawer after Roy Pascal's death, this book is more than simply one further addition to the bewildering corpus of secondary literature on Kafka. For it is a study which cuts through previous critical controversies by focusing on matters of literary and stylistic technique.

This 1981 text is a study of the narrative techniques in two important thirteenth-century German romances: one by Wolfram von Eschenbach and Albrecht, a lesser-known but highly skilled follower of Wolfram.

Kudrun is a German epic poem thought to have been composed within the decade 1230-40, and is thus contemporaneous with other epics of the classical age of Middle High German literature. In this 1978 book, Dr Campbell pays particular attention to the language of the text, and past emendations.

The main body of this book is devoted to interpretative essays on individual Novellen by Kleist, Tieck, Hoffmann, Grillparzwe, Keller, Storm, Hauptmann and Kafka. In a sense they all illustrate one central problem: the relationship of the narrator to his story, and the importance of this relationship for its interpretation.