bithell jethro 1878 1962 (1 Ergebnisse)

neat pencil underlining done with a ruler in first half of Rilke essay and on about 20 other pages, otherwise still very good red cloth, underlining is so neat it almost seems like part of the text. BITHELL, JETHRO. Modern German literature, 1880-1950 - COPY WITH MARKINGS. London: Methuen, 1959, Third edition, revised and reset., xii, 584pp., . The movements and phases are traced back to their origins. The final chapters deal with Surrealism, Magic Realism, and Existentialism. - CONTENTS: Naturalism -- The dramatists of naturalism -- Humorists, satirists, satanists and visionaries -- The novel of naturalism and decadence -- From Bahr to Dehmel -- Stefan George and his circle -- Rilke -- Hugo von Hofmannsthal -- The Neo-romantic and Austrian dramatists -- Cosmic impressionists and epic infinities -- Neo-classicism -- The novel of impressionism -- The women writers -- The regional novel -- The novel of expressionism -- Exotic literature and the Colonial novel -- The historical novel -- The drama of expressionism -- Phases of lyric poetry -- The literature of race and soil -- Philosophers and sophists -- Existentialism and surrealism, political and religious phases -- Post-war Austrian writers -- The New Verse.