Essays on German, American and English literature / Eugene G. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Eugene G., 1931-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

German literature--History and criticism.

German literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

x, 87 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2007]

Summary:

In Essays on German, American, and English Literature, author Eugene Miller offers literary criticism, from a theological and philosophical standpoint, of many of the great dramatists and novelists of world literature. Miller analyzes and discusses major works in German, American, and English literature in an authoritative and original manner.

Contents:

Stoicism and "The Code" in the Novels of Ernest Hemingway 3

Rainer Maria Rilke's Das Stundenbuch (Book of Hours) 7

The Futile Pursuit of Love in the Works of D. H. Lawrence or The Failure of Human Relationships 14

Melville and Platonism 18

A Look at the Frei Buhne Through Its Early Productions of Ghosts and Vor Sonnena Ufgang 21

The Early Productions of Goethe's Faust in America 28

Death in Venice (Short novel) / Thomas Mann 33

Seeds of Nietzschean Thoughts in Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus 37

/ Eugene O'Neill Foremost American Dramatist and Disciple of Frederich Nietzsche 45

/ George Gordon Byron Rebel With A Cause in His Romantic Tragedy Cain 49

Goethe's Venture Into Ancient Greece's Mythology and Literature 53

Arthur Miller and the Sartrean Theatre of Situation' 62

The Golden Age of German Cinema - Prelude to Hollywood's Frankenstein Era 67

Sinners and Suicide in Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter 71

Schiller and the Critics - From Schlegel to Durrenmatt 75.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [81]-83) and index.

ISBN:

9780761832195

076183219X

OCLC:

154691522