Literature and the Image of Man
Volume 2, Communication in Society
1st Edition
Published on 6. October 2017
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Hardback
359 pages
978-1-138-52727-0 (ISBN)
Description
This volume's predominant theme is bourgeois mentality and its historical development. The works of Lope de Vega, Calderon, Cervantes, and Shakespeare, among others, are analysed within the historical framework of the decline of feudalism and the rise of the absolute regimes. Those of Moliere and Goethe are set against the background of an evolving and consolidating bourgeois society in Western Europe.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-52727-0 (9781138527270)
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Content
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
Corneille, 1606 1684
Racine, 1639 1699
Moliere, 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
9 "Young Germany": Prehistory of Bourgeois Consciousness
10 Eduard Mo;rike: 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
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
Corneille, 1606 1684
Racine, 1639 1699
Moliere, 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
9 "Young Germany": Prehistory of Bourgeois Consciousness
10 Eduard Mo;rike: 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