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German literature


 

CONTENTS: Origins and Middle Ages Late Middle Ages and early Renaissance The 18th century The 19th century The 19th century. Fin de siecle movements The 20th century

German literature

CONTENTS

Origins and Middle Ages "The Nibelungenlied"  (PART I, PART II, PART III, PART IV) "The Ring of the Nibelung" illustrations by Arthur Rackham Joseph Bédier "The Romance of Tristan and Iseult" illustrations Mac Harshberger from "Tristan and Iseult"  by Joseph Bedier Gertrude Hall "The Wagnerian Romances" H.A. GUERBER "STORIES OF THE WAGNER OPERA" Reinmar von Hagenau Heinrich von Morungen Walther von der Vogelweide Heinrich von Veldeke Hartmann von Aue Wolfram von Eschenbach Gottfried von Strassburg Rudolf von Ems Konrad von Wurzburg Saint Albertus Magnus Meister Eckhart             Late Middle Ages and early Renaissance Johannes von Tepl Sebastian Brant "Ship of Fools" PART I, PART II, PART III, PART IV, PART V Illustrations by  Albrecht Durer Desiderius Erasmus Hans Sachs Martin Luther Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen Martin Opitz Andreas Gryphius Christian, baron von Wolff             The 18th century Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Johann Christoph Gottsched Johann Jakob Bodmer Johann Jakob Breitinger Gotthold Ephraim Lessing "Nathan the Wise" Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Christoph Martin Wieland Sophie von La Roche Johann Gottfried von Herder Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz Friedrich Maximilian Klinger Johann Anton Leisewitz Karl Philipp Moritz Heinrich Jung-Stilling Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Faust"      PART I, PART II, PART III Illustrations by Eugene Delacroix and Harry Clarke Friedrich von Schiller "Love and Intrigue" Jean Paul Friedrich Hölderlin "Poems" Heinrich von Kleist Rudolf Erich Raspe "The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen" Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten Immanuel Kant "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals" "THE METAPHYSICAL ELEMENTS OF ETHICS" "FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS" "THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON" "THE CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON" Friedrich Schleiermacher Johann Friedrich Herbart             The 19th century   Ludwig Tieck Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder Novalis August Wilhelm von Schlegel Friedrich Wilhelm von Schlegel Achim von Arnim Clemens Brentano Joseph Eichendorff Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm "Grimms Fairy Tales"   PART I, PART II, PART III Johann Gottlieb Fichte Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel "The Philosophy of History"   PART I,   PART II,   PART III,   PART IV Sigmund Freud "The Interpretation of Dreams" Chapter 1 The Scientific Literature of Dream-Problems (up to 1900) Chapter 2 The Method of Dream Interpretation Chapter 3 The Dream as Wish Fulfilment Chapter 4 Distortion in Dreams Chapter 5 The Material and Sources of Dreams Chapter 6 The Dream-Work Chapter 7 The Psychology of the Dream Process "Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex" E.T.A. Hoffmann Weird Tales. Vol. I, Weird Tales, Vol. II see also collection Pin-Up Weird Tales Heinrich Heine "Poems and Ballads" Ludwig Borne Karl Gutzkow Georg Buchner Adalbert Stifter Eduard Friedrich Morike Annette von Droste-Hulshoff Karl Immermann Nikolaus Lenau Gottfried Keller Jeremias Gotthelf Wilhelm Raabe Theodor Woldsen Storm Gustav Freytag Theodor Fontane Franz Grillparzer Christian Dietrich Grabbe Christian Friedrich Hebbel Gerhart Hauptmann             The 19th century. Fin de siecle movements Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" Hugo von Hofmannsthal "Poems" Stefan George Arthur Schnitzler Thomas Mann Heinrich Mann Arthur Schopenhauer "Essays" Rainer Maria Rilke "Duino Elegies" Hermann Hesse "Siddhartha" Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué "Undine" Gustav Theodor Fechner Ludwig Feuerbach Rudolf Hermann Lotze Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Friedrich Albert Lange Wilhelm Wundt Wilhelm Dilthey Franz Brentano Rudolf Christoph Eucken Wilhelm Windelband Alexius Meinong Edmund Husserl             The 20th century Georg Trakl Georg Heym Gottfried Benn Ernst Toller Georg Kaiser Franz Kafka "The Trial" Alfred Doblin Hermann Broch Robert Musil Anna Seghers Joseph Roth Franz Werfel Arnold Zweig Stefan Zweig Wolfgang Borchert Max Frisch Friedrich Durrenmatt Bertolt Brecht Theodor Adorno Nelly Sachs Paul Celan Heinrich Boll Gunter Grass Peter Weiss Peter Handke Ingeborg Bachmann Uwe Johnson Thomas Bernhard Christa Wolf Lion Feuchtwanger Erich Maria Remarque Carl Jung Rudolf Carnap Martin Heidegger Karl Jaspers Moritz Schlick Hans-Georg Gadamer Jurgen Habermas