... der Sprache: Interpretationen deutscher Prosa uon Nietzsche bis Benn. By FRITZMARTINI. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Verlag, zweite Auflage, 1956. Pp. 529. DM 27.80. Since its first publication in 1954, Professor Martini’s book has become a “classic” in the discipline of close reading...

... through his own writing. JACOB KORC University of Washington Die Asthetik Gottfried Benns. By GERHARDLOOSE. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1961. Pp. xi + 200. DM 10.50. In this book Gerhard Loose asks himself...

...Hunter G. Hannum Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 GOTTFRIED BENN’S “GLADIOLEN” By HUNTERG. HANNUM Ein Strauss Gladiolen das ist bestimmt sehr schopfungsdeutend, fern von Blutengeweichel mit Fruchterhoffnung...

...Walter Benn Michaels Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Victims of New Historicism Walter Benn Michaels he title of this essay is prompted by a series of recent attacks on Tthe New Historicism, most of which take the form either of sug- gesting, as does...

... the sort of influence upon public opinion that Wells tried to exert through his own writing. JACOB KORC University of Washington Die Asthetik Gottfried Benns. By GERHARDLOOSE. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1961. Pp...

..., and Georg Grosz; in the poets Georg Heym, Gottfried Benn, Johannes Becher, Jakob van Hoddis, and Franz Werfel; or in the dramatists Fritz von Unruh (Platz),Ernst Toller (Hinkemann), and Georg Kaiser (Lederkopfe), to pick but a few examples at random. 68 EXPRESSIONISM...

... for “the new man,” but had developed new forms in which to express their despair. The poetry of Heym, Trakl, Stramm, and Benn, and the prose of Kafka, form that aspect of Expressionism which is alive and relevant today [and, a footnote adds, Kaiser’s post-expres- sionist drama]. Walter Sokel...

...Priscilla Wald Walter Benn Michaels. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995. ix + 186 pp. $29.95 doth, $12.95 paper. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 124 MLQl March 1998 Eliot’s works-green-pebbled cloth boards, blind...

.... HAROLDVON HOFE University of Southern California Dar Wagnis der Sprache: Interpretationen deutscher Prosa uon Nietzsche bis Benn. By FRITZMARTINI. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Verlag, zweite Auflage, 1956. Pp. 529. DM 27.80. Since its first publication in 1954, Professor Martini’s book...

... care- ful argumentation and documentation. But whereas Rimbaud, the Surrealists, and Expressionists like Trakl, Heytii, and Kafka emphasize the image or dreamlike scene as the building stone of their compositions, MallarmC, Valiry, T. S. Eliot, Benn, and the Expressionists...

... secretion, like the pearl in tlie oyster.” Gottfried Benn contrasts the power of the intellect with that of “worthless” joy in existence : cf. “Sils Maria” : Docli wer die Stunden denkt: ihre Welle, ihr Spiel, ihr Wesen, der hat die Stunden gelenkt. Benn’s poem...

... Benn has aptly put it, “die Sprache zu zerbrechen, um sie tragbar fiir neue Ausdrucksmoglichkeiten zu machen.”l In this pursuit the lyric poets have developed into fierce opponents of the conventional use of language. The literary movement of these modern Sprachgegner has already grown...

... it is permitted to stand in for thought these days. Ragussis’s case is strong enough without it. Joseph Butwin, University of Washington Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism. By Walter Benn Michaels. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995. ix + 186 pp. $29.95...

... to represent the author’s most original and valuable contribution to the growing literature on Benn. The Nietzsche quotation (“Seit ich den Leib besser kenne . . . ist mir der Geist nur noch gleichsam Geist . . which Loose could not locate (cf. pp. 185- 86) occurs at the beginning...

..., 1789-1870. London: Ernest Benn; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1967. xvi + 395 pp. $12.50; 63s. Dego, Giuliano. Morauia. New York: Barnes & Noble, Writers and Critics, 1967. 120 pp. $2.50. 400 BOOKS RECEIVED Dorris, George E...

..., 1972. 167 pp. $5.95. Franco, Jean. Literary History of Spain. Volume 7. Spanish American Literature since Independence. London: Ernest Benn; New York: Harper & Row, 1973. xiv + 306 pp. $9.50, cloth; $5.75, paper. BOOKS RECEIVED 223...