Reading Heinrich Heine / Anthony Phelan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phelan, Anthony.

Series:

Cambridge studies in German

Cambridge studies in german

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856--Criticism and interpretation.

Heine, Heinrich.

Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xiv, 307 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

This comprehensive study of the nineteeth-century German poet Heinrich Heine is the first to be published in English for many years. Anthony Phelan examines the complete range of Heine's work, from the early poetry and 'Pictures of Travel' to the last poems, including personal polemic and journalism. Phelan provides original and detailed readings of Heine's major poetry and throws new light on his virtuoso political performances that have too often been neglected by critics. Through his critical relationship with Romanticism, Heine confronted the problem of modernity in startlingly original ways that still speak to the concerns of post-modern readers. Phelan highlights the importance of Heine for the critical understanding of modern literature, and in particular the responses to Heine's work by Adorno, Kraus and Benjamin. Heine emerges as a figure of immense European significance, whose writings now need to be seen as a major contribution to the articulation of modernity.

Contents:

Part I The Biographical Imperative

1 The biographical imperative: Karl Kraus 3

2 The biographical imperative: Theodor Adorno 20

3 The biographical imperative: Helmut Heibenbuttel - pro domo 33

4 From the private life of Everyman: self-presentation and authenticity in Buch der Lieder 46

5 In the diplomatic sense: reading Reisebilder 91

Part II The Real Heine

6 How to become a symbolist: Heine and the anthologies of Stefan George and Rudolf Borchardt 113

7 The real Heine: Atta Troll and allegory 129

8 Ventriloquism in Ludwig Borne. Eine Denkschrift 151

Part III Parisian Writing

9 Scheherazade's snapshots: Lutetia 181

10 Mathilde's interruption: archetypes of modernity in Heine's later poetry 209

11 The tribe of Harry: Heine and contemporary poetry 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521863995

0521863996

OCLC:

71347560