Eight German Novellas

by Fleming, Michael; Webber, Andrew. J

• ISBN13: 9780192832184
• ISBN10: 0192832182
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This selection features eight Novellen by leading German writers of the nineteenth century. Newly translated, each piece has an introduction which explores the many contradictions in the theory and practice of the novella, as well as analysis of the narrative devices of individual stories. Included here are Blond Eckbert , by Ludwig Tieck, The Marchioness of O... , by Heinrich von Kleist, Lenz , by Georg Büchner, The Jew's Beech , by Annette von Droste-Bülshoff, Tourmaline , by Adalbert Stifter, Mozart on the Way to Prague , by Eduard B "orike, Clothes Make the Man , by Gottfried Keller, and The White Horse Rider , by Theodor Storm. These carefully selected novellas provide a means of surveying an important and widely-studied genre in German literature.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii	(26)
Translator's Note	xxxiii	(1)
Select Bibliography	xxxiv
LUDWIG TIECK
Blond Eckbert	1	(17)
HEINRICH VON KLEIST
The Marchioness of O...	18	(40)
GEORG BUCHNER
Lenz	58	(25)
ANNETTE VON DROSTE-HULSHOFF
The Few's Beech	83	(45)
ADALBERT STIFTER
Tourmaline	128	(36)
EDUARD MORIKE
Mozart on the Way to Prague	164	(57)
GOTTFRIED KELLER
Clothes Make the Man	221	(42)
THEODOR STORM
The White Horse Rider	263	(5)
Explanatory Notes	368