Reason and Energy: Studies in German Literature / Edition 1

by Michael Hamburger

Overview

Originally published in 1957, this volume brings together a collection of essays and hard to source translations on both well and lesser known German writers and poets, including Hölderlin, Benn, Mann and Nietzsche. The essays are linked by a consideration of the tension between the desire for what Thomas Mann called ‘the miracle of ingeniousness regained’ and the constrains of reason. The book shows how this tension contributes toward the prophetic nature of so much 18^th and 19^th Century German literature and its modernity, which qualities are also placed in the context of German political and social conditions. All prose quotations are given in English translation, and the majority of verse quotations in both German and English.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367436599
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/12/2020
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: German Literature
Pages:	322
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Raymond Furness was at the Universities of Manchester and St. Andrews

Table of Contents

: 1. An Introduction: Naturalism and Its Decline 2. Jung-Wien 3. Aestheticism, Decadence and Neo-Romanticism in Germany 4. The Cosmic Dimension 5. Modernism and ‘Sprachkrise’ 6. The Problem of Expressionism 7. The 1920s and 1930s 8. Barbarism, Exile and Return