Deutung und Bedeutung
Studies in German and comparative literature presented to Karl-Werner Maurer
Brigitte Schludermann, Evelyn Sherabon Firchow
Frontmatter — Acknowledgements — CONTENTS — Karl-Werner Maurer. An English Tribute — From Troy to Uppsala. A Manitoba Tribute — I. MEDIEVAL — Germanic and Kirgiz Heroic Poetry. Some Comparisons and Contrasts — Irony in Hartmann’s Iwein — The Christus-Johannes-Gruppe and Meister Eckhart’s Way of the Soul — Some Notes on Der Ackermann aus Böhmen — II. MODERN — Two Types of German Prose Miniature — Goethe’s Pietism as seen in his Letters and Dichtung und Wahrheit — Villainy and Guilt in Schiller’s Wallenstein and Maria Stuart — Werner, Novalis and the Signature of Stones — Was auch der Zeiten Wandel sonst hinnehmen mag. The Problem of Time in Mörike’s Epistolary Poetry — Wilhelm Zimmermann’s Historical Frame of Reference — Theodor Storm. An Enduring ‚College Classic‘ — Weddings and Funerals. A Study of Two Motifs in Fontane’s Novels — Friedrich Nietzsche’s Ecce homo. An Autobiography? — Wittgenstein, Existentialism and the History of Philosophy — Neue Sachlichkeit. A Reassessment — The Macabre Festival. A Consideration of Six Stories by Siegfried Lenz — Albrecht Goes als Essayist — Mein erstes Buch — Meditation über ein Gedicht — III. COMPARATIVE — Three Evening Hymns. Gerhardt, Claudius and Bridges — Translation as Interpretation. Some Observations on Three German Translations of a Macbeth Speech — Hölderlin. Four Late Fragments — Paphos. Eine Interpretation des Mallarme-Sonetts und ein Vergleich mit deutschen Übersetzungen — Übersetzung als Umdichtung. Karl-Werner Maurer gewidmet — A Selected Bibliography — Tabula Gratulatoria — Index