Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 160 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 408 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 160 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 408 g
Reihe: Literary Criticism in Perspect
ISBN: 978-1-879751-35-4
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
A survey of criticism of the 19th-century German writer Joseph von Eichendorff (1788-1857)
Until the 1950s most critics tended to treat Eichendorff as a kind of light-hearted raconteur who spun tales of warmth and action having little aesthetic or philosophical depth. Critics who read his works more closely then began to view him as a thinker whose works concealed, behind seemingly simpler constructs, profound insights into the human condition. Marxist critics were especially drawn to Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing, finding in that ostensibly frivolous novella a romantic critique of capitalism.
This work, the first thorough survey of Eichendorff criticism in any language, and written for the general reader of literature as well as the specialist, is a mustfor college and university libraries.
