Deutung und Bedeutung : Studies in German and comparative literature presented to Karl-Werner Maurer

The purpose of this volume is to honour Karl-Werner Maurer on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Professor Maurer was educated in Tübingen and held academic posts at Dijon and in London, before joining the faculty of the University of Manitoba where he became Head of the German Department. Professor Maurer brought to Manitoba an impressive range of interests together with the discipline of scholars like Hermann Schneider and Ernst Robert Curtius. He developed his own gift of teaching from which several generations of young scholars were to benefit. Twelve of the articles in this volume are by former students of K.-W. Maurer, and all four editors wrote dissertations under his direction. Containing articles on art, on medieval, modern, and comparative literature and translation, this 'Festschrift' matches most appropriately a lifelong dedication to the Humanities and exemplifies the distinctive tradition of 'Germanistik' in the English-speaking world.

""The unsurpassed heuristic work of medieval German studies - indispensable for all medieval disciplines including even the history of medicine. The work not only extensively documents the current state of research within the defined framework, the changes in the articles between Vol. 1 and Vol. 11 reveal how research and presentation methods have become more precise. That is why this lexicon also has high historical value for the discipline, which would be worth investigating - and this will surely occur one day."
Prof. Dr. Johannes Janota

"This basic, comprehensive reference work on the literature of the medieval German language area has had a sustained impact on medieval research since the publication of the first volume in 1978, e.g. through the obligatory inclusion and presentation of the facts on how these writings were handed down."
Prof. Dr. Kurt Gärtner

With a total of some 5000 alphabetically arranged articles, the 'Dictionary of Authors' presents the whole of medieval German literature. In its organisation, the work carries on from the first edition (1933-1955); it is, however, broader in scope and has been completely reworked by numerous international scholars to represent (and often to establish) the present state of research.

The term 'literature' as used here encompasses all writing with the exception of archival records, and thus includes not only 'belles-lettres' but also practical and occasionally ecclesiastical, legal, historical, scientific, medical, technical and commercial texts. The dictionary contains all known authors writing in German with their works, a broad selection of authors from the German language area writing in Latin, and all prominent anonymous works. Less prominent German anonymous works are included in articles on representative manuscript collections, on the reception of important Latin authors from Antiquity and the Middle Ages in translation, quotation and glossaries, and in some cases feature in wide-ranging thematic overviews. In all the articles, particular importance is attached to an account of the transmission of the works.

Acknowledgements CONTENTS Karl-Werner Maurer. An English Tribute From Troy to Uppsala. A Manitoba Tribute I. MEDIEVAL Germanic and Kirgiz Heroic Poetry. Some Comparisons and Contrasts Irony in Hartmann's Iwein The Christus-Johannes-Gruppe and Meister Eckhart's Way of the Soul Some Notes on Der Ackermann aus Böhmen II. MODERN Two Types of German Prose Miniature Goethe's Pietism as seen in his Letters and Dichtung und Wahrheit Villainy and Guilt in Schiller's Wallenstein and Maria Stuart Werner, Novalis and the Signature of Stones Was auch der Zeiten Wandel sonst hinnehmen mag. The Problem of Time in Mörike's Epistolary Poetry Wilhelm Zimmermann's Historical Frame of Reference Theodor Storm. An Enduring 'College Classic' Weddings and Funerals. A Study of Two Motifs in Fontane's Novels Friedrich Nietzsche's Ecce homo. An Autobiography? Wittgenstein, Existentialism and the History of Philosophy Neue Sachlichkeit. A Reassessment The Macabre Festival. A Consideration of Six Stories by Siegfried Lenz Albrecht Goes als Essayist Mein erstes Buch Meditation über ein Gedicht III. COMPARATIVE Three Evening Hymns. Gerhardt, Claudius and Bridges Translation as Interpretation. Some Observations on Three German Translations of a Macbeth Speech Hölderlin. Four Late Fragments Paphos. Eine Interpretation des Mallarme-Sonetts und ein Vergleich mit deutschen Übersetzungen Übersetzung als Umdichtung. Karl-Werner Maurer gewidmet A Selected Bibliography Tabula Gratulatoria Index