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New essays on the first flowering of German literature, in the High Middle Ages and especially during the period 1180-1230.

A detailed, contextualized picture of the very beginnings of writing in German from around 750 to 1100.

Traces literary developments in the German-speaking countries from 1900 to the present.

Sharply focused essays on the most significant aspects of German Romanticism.

Carefully focused essays on major aspects of one of the most significant German literary movements, the Storm and Stress.

New essays providing an account of the shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values of Weimar Classicism.

New essays providing an overview of the major movements, genres, and authors of 19th-century German literature in social and political context.

New essays tracing the 18th-century literary revival in German-speaking lands and the cultural developments that accompanied it.

A collection of fresh essays examining the wide scope and significance of early Germanic culture and literature.The first volume of this set views the development of writing in German with respect to broad aspects of the early Germanic past, drawing on a range of disciplines including archaeology, anthropology, and philology in addition toliterary history. The first part considers the whole concept of Germanic antiquity and the way in which it has been approached, examines classical writings about Germanic origins and the earliest Germanic tribes, and looks at thetwo great influences on the early Germanic world: the confrontation with the Roman Empire and the displacement of Germanic religion by Christianity. A chapter on orality -- the earliest stage of all literature -- provides a bridgeto the earliest Germanic writings. The second part of the book is devoted to written Germanic -- rather than German -- materials, with a series of chapters looking first at the Runic inscriptions, then at Gothic, the first Germanic language to find its way onto parchment (in Ulfilas's Bible translation). The topic turns finally to what we now understand as literature, with general surveys of the three great areas of early Germanic literature: Old Norse, Old English, and Old High and Low German. A final chapter is devoted to the Old Saxon Heliand.Contributors: T. M. Andersson, Heinrich Beck, Graeme Dunphy, Klaus Duwel, G. Ronald Murphy, Adrian Murdoch, Brian Murdoch, Rudolf Simek, Herwig Wolfram.Brian Murdoch and Malcolm Read both teach in the German Department of the University of Stirling in Scotland.