TY  - GEN
T1  - A companion to the works of Heinrich Heine
T2  - Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
A1  - Cook, Roger F., 1948-
A2  - Cook, Roger F., 1948-
LA  - English
PP  - Rochester, NY
PB  - Camden House
YR  - 2002
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn646854743
AB  - As the most prominent German-Jewish Romantic writer, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) became a focal point for much of the tension generated by the Jewish assimilation to German culture in a time marked bya growing emphasis on the shared ancestry of the German <I>Volk.</I> As both an ingenious composer of Romantic verse and the originator of modernist German prose, he defied nationalist-Romantic concepts of creative genius that grounded German greatness in an idealist tradition of <I>Dichter und Denker.</I> And as a brash, often reckless champion of freedom and social justice, he challenged not only the reactionary ruling powers of Restoration Germany but also the incipient nationalist ideology that would have fateful consequences for the new Germany--consequences he often portended with a prophetic vision born of his own experience. Reaching to the heart of the G̀erman question,' the controversies surrounding Heine have been as intense since his death as they were in his own lifetime, often serving as an acid test for important questions of national and social consciousness. This new volume of essays by scholars from Germany, Britain, Canada, and the United States offers new critical insights on key recurring issues in his work: the symbiosis of German and Jewish culture; emerging nationalism among the European peoples; critical views of Romanticism and modern philosophy; Europeanculture on the threshold to modernity; irony, wit, and self-critique as requisite elements of a modern aesthetic; changing views on teleology and the dialectics of history; and final thoughts and reconsiderations from his last, prolonged years in a sickbed. Contributors: Michael Perraudin, Paul Peters, Roger F. Cook, Willi Goetschel, Gerhard Hoehn, Paul Reitter, Robert C. Holub, Jeffrey Grossman, Anthony Phelan, Joseph A. Kruse, and George F. Peters. <BR>Roger F. Cook is professor of German at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
OP  - 373
CN  - PT2340 .C66 2002eb
SN  - 9781571136053
SN  - 1571136053
SN  - 9781571132079
SN  - 1571132074
KW  - Heine, Heinrich, : 1797-1856 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Heine, Heinrich, : 1797-1856
KW  - Heine, Heinrich : 1797-1856
KW  - Authors, German : 19th century : Biography.
KW  - Écrivains allemands : 19e siècle : Biographies.
KW  - POETRY : Continental European.
KW  - Authors, German
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - Creative Genius.
KW  - European Culture.
KW  - Freedom.
KW  - German Identity.
KW  - German-Jewish Writer.
KW  - Heinrich Heine.
KW  - Irony.
KW  - Literary Criticism.
KW  - Modern Aesthetic.
KW  - Nationalism.
KW  - Romantic Writer.
KW  - Romanticism.
KW  - Social Justice.
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -