| Eichendorff's Scholarly Reception: A Survey Contributor(s): Goebel, Robert O. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1879751356 ISBN-13: 9781879751354 Publisher: Camden House (NY) OUR PRICE: $85.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Dewey: 838.709 |
| LCCN: 92032573 |
| Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (0.90 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |