.... By R. GUNKEL.Utrecht: Drukkerij en Uitgeversmij ., Studia Litteraria Rheno-Traiectina, 11, 1953. Pp. xii + 108. Holland has heretofore played an insignificant role in Buchner research. Furthermore, the book here under discussion has been written by a comparatist, and Buchner has...

... of scholarship on Buchner in German and other lan- guages, while the general reader will learn little that has not already been covered in other books (even articles) in English. If comprehensiveness is synonymous with length, then Richards is correct in his claim, for, with the exception of M. B...

.... Havitig shown in the previous chapter that Buchner’s personality presents marked traces of the dandy, in Chapter 111, “Der Dandysmus in den Werken Buchners” (pp. 53-94), Gunkel seeks similar traits in Buchner’s literary works. In his opinion there are only two plays which can be included...

...- speare, Goethe, Corneille, Dryden, I bsen, Buchner, Brecht, Racine, Schiller, Shaw, and Strindberg. As a scholar’s book, or as an aid to the graduate and better undergraduate student, it is excellent. Incidentally-perhaps not so incidentally, considering the approach and the subject-it has...

... Benn, Maurice B. The Drama of Revolt: A Critical Study .of Georg Buchner. Cam- bridge, London, New York: Cambridge University Press, Anglica Germanica Se- ries, 2, 1976. viii + 321 pp. $21.00. Garland, Henry and Mary. The Oxford Companion to German Literature. Oxford: Clarendon...

...Joan Webber William Kerrigan. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1974. viii + 285 pp. $12.50. Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 434 REVIEWS now is Buchner’s Danton’s Death, a very important play...

... not wander much beyond Buchner and German literature, for like all too many Ameri- cans in foreign-language departments, Richards has a certain innocence about literature in his native tongue, as when he attributes the celebrated winding of the clock that resulted in Tristram Shandy’s...

... himself is aware of complexities of this kind. His awareness, however, has not kept him from writing a book that stands in contradiction of its own thesis. Ambushing a host of modem writers-from Tennyson and Buchner to Charles Tomlinson and Saul Bellow-Donoghue has discovered, or anyway permitted...

... and the demonic as an example of the unconscious, for which he uses Buchner’s Lenz, Morike’s Mozart azif der Reise nach Prag, and J. Gotthelf’s Die schwarze Spinne, Pongs recognizes two different problems in regard to symbols in the Novelle: Die Technik der Novelle zielt auf ein Symbol als...

... + 280. $2.75. GERMAN Deutscher Geist: Ein Lesebuch aus zwei Jahrhunderten. 2 vols. Berlin und Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1953. Gunkel, Dr. R. Georg Buchner und der Dandysmus. Utrecht: Drukkerij en Uitgeversmij., Studia Litteraria Rheno...

... humain, confession person- nelle. Paris: Klincksieck, 1973. 296 pp. Hauser, Ronald. Georg Buchner. New York: Twayne, TWAS 500, 1974. 161 pp. $5.95. Last, R. W. Erich Kiistner. London: Oswald Wolff, Modern German Authors, New Series, 3, 1974. 128 pp. f2.25, cloth; f 1.25, paper...

... Bennett has long since established himself as a preemi- nent theorist. He focuses on several specific plays, such as Bertolt Brecht’s Leben des Galilei, Frank Wedekind’s Frühlings Erwachen, T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral, Georg Büchner’s Dantons Tod, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Der Turm...

..., T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral, Georg Büchner’s Dantons Tod, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Der Turm, to demonstrate how they both explore and use the revolutionary dynamic involved in the theatrical process itself. At the same time, Bennett provides insights into each text...

..., Georg Büchner’s Dantons Tod, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Der Turm, to demonstrate how they both explore and use the revolutionary dynamic involved in the theatrical process itself. At the same time, Bennett provides insights into each text and into the working methods and theoreti- cal...

..., Georg Büchner’s Dantons Tod, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Der Turm, to demonstrate how they both explore and use the revolutionary dynamic involved in the theatrical process itself. At the same time, Bennett provides insights into each text and into the working methods and theoreti- cal...

... Bennett has long since established himself as a preemi- nent theorist. He focuses on several specific plays, such as Bertolt Brecht’s Leben des Galilei, Frank Wedekind’s Frühlings Erwachen, T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral, Georg Büchner’s Dantons Tod, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Der Turm...

..., Georg Büchner’s Dantons Tod, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Der Turm, to demonstrate how they both explore and use the revolutionary dynamic involved in the theatrical process itself. At the same time, Bennett provides insights into each text and into the working methods and theoreti- cal...

...). This list belies an English proverb (Smith and Heseltine, p. 248) : “Judas might have repented before he could have found a tree to have hanged himself upon, had he betrayed Christ in Scotland.” Some day, we hope, will be written the full story of Judas, a story ably begun by Buchner...

... Buchner: Dialektik der Crenz. Bonn: Boiivier, Abhand- lungen zur Kunst-, Musik- iind Literatiirwissenscliaft, 208, 1976. 517 pp. DM 78. KOMANCELANGUAGES Albanese, Kalph, Jr. Le Dynumisme de la peur chez Molitre: Une analyse sociocultu- relle de “Dom...

... to Georg Buchner. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. xii + 265 pp. $25.00. Gronicka, Andre von. The Russian Image of Goethe, 11: Goethe in Russian Literature of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsyl- vania Press, 1985. xi + 268 pp. $25.00...