German Literature: A Very Short Introduction (9780199206599)

German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Gunter Grass, have had a profound influence on the modern world.

This Very Short Introduction presents an engrossing tour of the course of German literature from the late Middle Ages to the present, focussing especially on the last 250 years. Emphasizing the economic and religious context of many masterpieces of German literature, it highlights how they can be interpreted as responses to social and political changes within an often violent and tragic history. The result is a new and clear perspective which illuminates the power of German literature
and the German intellectual tradition, and its impact on the wider cultural world.
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Product details

• Format Paperback | 184 pages
• Dimensions 110 x 174 x 10mm | 165g
• Publication date 28 May 2008
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note 15 black-and-white halftones
• ISBN10 0199206597
• ISBN13 9780199206599
• Bestsellers rank 226,749

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