...DAVID EGGENSCHWILER Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 “DIE VERWANDLUNG,” FREUD, AND THE CHAINS OF ODYSSEUS By DAVIDEGGENSCHWILER For nearly half a century, since Hellmuth Kaiser’s 1931 essay in Ima...

.... ROBERTHERNDON FIFE Columbia University Die Lebensf orm Lessings uls Strukturprinzip in seinen Dramen. By HERBERTHORST JOHANNES PEISEL.University of Pennsyl- vania dissertation in Germanics. Philadelphia, 1941. Pp. v + 108. The title of this dissertation contains the two...

...Oskar Seidlin Der deutsche Dichter urn die Jahrhundertwende und seine Abge- lostheit von der Gesellschuf t. By HANSROSENHAUPT. Bern : Paul Haupt Verlag, 1939. Pp. 287. There are three factors which make Hans Rosenhaupt’s book an outstanding contribution...

... originken Ausbildung. Es beriihrt nachdenklich, dass in dieser Studie uber ein lyrisches Opus von diesem eigentlich und hochwertig Lyrischen so wenig die Rede ist-vielmehr sich “Erlebnis” und “Gedanken” zu sehr weltanschaulich, psychologisch verselbstandigen. So griindlich und gewis- senhaft dies...

... limit the scope of his work entirely to the positive side. Within such limits he is convinced that his material demands the recognition of aspectual classifica- tion. Thus he says : “Demgemass lassen sich die Schtielligkeitsworter in puuk- tuclle utid lineare Schnelligkeit . . . einteilen...

... to realize, on one’s sixty-fifth birthday, that a lifetime devoted to serious scholar- ship has found such enthusiastic acclaim in the hearts and minds of so many devoted followers. CARROLLE. REED liniversity of Washington Die...

...Donald G. Daviau Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 LANGUAGE AND MORALITY IN KARL KRAUS’S DIE LETZTEN TAGE DER MENSCHHEIT By DONALDG. DAVIAU Concern for language stands as the central issue of all Karl...

...-century treatises even before them, credit for the first basic survey usually goes to the much over- praised essay of Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, “Die Volkskunde als Wissenschaft” (1858). Riehl’s sociological approach to folklore is later overshadowed by the work of the Durkheim school...

... of Wells. More surprisingly, Gettman suggests that Gissing’s novels may also have had the sort of influence upon public opinion that Wells tried to exert through his own writing. JACOB KORC University of Washington Die Asthetik...

... version of the present text will easily mitigate the troublesome features mentioned here. CARROLLE. REED University of Washington Die Episodios Nacionales von Bettito Pkrez Galdbs. By HANSHINTERHAUSER. Hamburg: Cram, De Gruyter...

...George C. Buck George C. Birck 347 Goethes Novelle “Die Wahlvewandtschaften”: Ein Rekonstruktionmersltch. By HANSM. WOLFF.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Vol. 43, 1955. Pp...

... prove what linguists well know: that a dialect changes from decade to decade, from rione to rione, and even from person to person. MARIOA. PEI Columbia University Die deutsche Sprache im Ausland. By FRANZTHIERFELDER. Hamburg...

...Hans Reiss DIE LEIDEN DES JUNGEN WERTHERS A RECONSIDERATION By HANSREISS To write about Die Leiden des jungen Werthers is probably sui- cidal, but this is at least in keeping with the mood of the novel. There is also no need...

...Ulrich Weisstein Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 DIE ARME TONIETTA HEINRICH MANN’S TRIPLE VERSION OF AN OPERATIC PLOT By ULRICNWEISSTEIN When, in 1907, Heinrich Mann set to work on his novel Die...

... in the Washing- ton series will repair this sin of omission. Meanwhile, we are grateful for a bounty of commission. RICHARDB. VOWLES University of Florida Deutsche Demokruten in Ameriko: Die Achtundvierziger und ihre Schrijten...

...Wolfgang Wittkowski WOLFGANG WITTKOWSKI 457 Schiller und die franzosische klassische Tragodie. By PETERAND& BLOCH. Dusseldorf: Schwann, 1968. 341 pp. Das Buch verfolgt zwei Absichten; und in beiden leistet es Beachtliches. Es schildert...

...George C. Buck Pp. 69. E. T. A. Hoffmann, Der Kampf der Sanger. Pp. 63. A Holz and J. Schalaf, Die Familie Selicke. Pp. 80. Adalbert Stifter, Kalkstein. Pp. 77. E. T. A. Hoffmann, Meister Martin Der Kufner und Seine Gesellen. Pp. x + 74. Cambridge Univeristy Press. Copyright © 1952 by Duke...

... in the translations will not dull his poetic appetite before he finally reaches the dessert. CA~OLLE. REED Uibiversity of Washington Deutsche Literaturgeschichte in Grundziigeit: Die Epochen deutscher Dichturig. Herausgegeben von B. BOESCH.Bern...