The Lion and the Eagle: Interdisciplinary Essays on German-Spanish Relations Over the Centuries

by Kent, Conrad; Wolber, Thomas; Hewitt, C. M. Kempton

• ISBN13: 9781571811318
• ISBN10: 1571811311
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

The German and Spanish-speaking worlds have, over the centuries, developed an intrinsic relationship, one which predates the Habsburg dynasty and the Renaissance and baroque periods. The cross-fertilization and challenges have been both fruitful and complex with novel inventions surfacing in one culture often achieving their greatest prosperity in the other: Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation stimulated a response in Spain that was to define the European Counter Reformation; Spanish Baroque writers were seminal in the development of German Romanticism; Carl Christian Friedrich Krause and other nineteenth-century liberals provided the foundation for Spanish reformist efforts on the one hand, while German conservatives like Novalis and Adam Muller inspired conservatives on the other; the music of Richard Wagner transformed Spanish music and the Spanish stage at the turn of the twentieth century; Pablo Picasso and other artists of the Spanish avant-garde sparked the enthusiasm of the Germans before the Nazi era. Today, German and Spanish intellectuals and writers share a similar commitment to the creation of a European culture in the face of resistance from other members of the European Union.Viewed from a variety of disciplines this volume explores the relentlessly consistent, albeit often forgotten connections between the two linguistic and cultural groups revealing the myriad of ways in which they have shared and transformed literature, art, culture, politics, and history.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	viii
Preface	x
Introduction	1	(46)
Conrad Kent
Thomas K. Wolber
From the Middle Ages to the End of the Spanish
Habsburg Dynasty
Spain and Germany in the Middle Ages: An Unexplored Literary-Historical Area of Exchange, Reception, and Exploration	47	(30)
Albrecht Classen
The Archduchess Elizabeth: Where Spain and Austria Met	77	(14)
Joseph F. Patrouch
A Woman's Influence: Archduchess Maria of Bavaria and the Spanish Habsburgs	91	(17)
Magdalena S. Sanchez
Germany's Indies? The Spanish Monarchy and Germany in the Reign of the Last Spanish Habsburg, Charles II, 1665--1700	108	(25)
Christopher D. Storrs
From the Enlightenment to the Modern Imagination
The Motifs of Incest and Fratricide in Friedrich Schiller's The Bride of Messina and Their Possible Calderonian Sources	133	(19)
Henry W. Sullivan
Francisco Lopez de Ubeda and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as Participants in the Shared German-Spanish Tradition of Kabbalistic Rhetoric	152	(25)
Patricia D. Zecevic
The Influence of Neogrammarian Scholarship on Ramon Menendez Pidal's Historical Grammars of Spanish	177	(11)
Donald E. Lenfest
Reassessing Friedrich Schlegel's Reading of Don Quixote in Light of His Early Writings	188	(26)
Rachel Schmidt
Spain in Heine--Heine in Spain: Notes on a Bilateral Reception	214	(21)
Berit Balzer
La Abeja of Barcelona and German Literature in Spain, 1862-1870	235	(20)
John W. Kronik
Clarin's Krausism	255	(18)
Nelson R. Orringer
Configurations of German and Spanish Intellectual History and Aesthetics: Goethe, Novalis, Ortega y Gasset, Unamuno	273	(17)
Francisco LaRubia-Prado
The Fame of Miguel de Unamuno in Germany: Its Growth and Decline, 1924--1930	290	(23)
Shirley King
From the Spanish Civil War to the Present Hitler and the Spanish Civil War: A Shifting Balance of Power	313	(154)
Robert H. Whealey
What the Condor Saw: Nazi Propaganda Images of the Spanish Civil War	325	(35)
Conrad Kent
Writing War: German Women and the Spanish Civil War	360	(23)
Friederike B. Emonds
The Reluctant Belligerent: Franco's Spain and Hitler's War	383	(14)
Norman J. W. Goda
The Last Defenders of the New Order: Spaniards and Nazi Germany, August 1944--May 1945	397	(26)
Wayne Bowen
Pablo Neruda and the German Literary Exile Community	423	(19)
Vera Stegmann
La insurreccion/Der Aufstand: Cultural Synergy, Film, and Revolution	442	(15)
Rachel J. Halverson
Ana Maria Rodriguez-Vivaldi
The Reception of Spanish-American Fiction in Germany: The Tide of Bestsellers, 1980--1995---Rising and Ebbing?	457	(10)
Meg H. Brown
Notes on Contributors	467	(6)
Bibliography	473	(38)
Index of Names	511	(14)
Index of Subjects	525