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  1. Literature and religion in the German-speaking world
    from 1200 to the present day
    Contributor: Cooper, Ian (Herausgeber); Walker, John (Herausgeber)
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Zusammenfassung: "The relationship between literature and religion in German is unique in the European tradition. It is essential to the definition of German, Austrian and Swiss cultural identity in both the Protestant and Catholic traditions and... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: "The relationship between literature and religion in German is unique in the European tradition. It is essential to the definition of German, Austrian and Swiss cultural identity in both the Protestant and Catholic traditions and crucial to our understanding of what has been called the 'special path' of German intellectual life. Offering in-depth essays by leading scholars, Literature and Religion in the German-Speaking World analyses this relationship from the beginnings of vernacular literature in German, via the Reformation, early-modern and Enlightenment periods, to the present day. It shows how such fundamental concepts as 'subjectivity', 'identity' and 'modernity' itself arise from the interrelation between religious and secular modes of understanding, and how this interrelation is inseparable from its expression in literature"--(Provided by publisher.)

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Cooper, Ian (Herausgeber); Walker, John (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781108418102; 1108418104; 9781108406512; 1108406513
    Subjects: Deutsch; Literatur; Religion <Motiv>; Deutsch; Literatur; Religion
    Other subjects: (lcsh)Religion and literature--Europe, German-speaking--History.; (lcsh)German literature--History and criticism.; (fast)German literature.; (fast)Religion and literature.; (fast)German-speaking Europe.; (fast)Criticism, interpretation, etc.; (fast)History
    Scope: vii, 347 Seiten, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-341) and index

    Introduction / Ian Cooper and John Walker -- 1. Pagan, Christian, secular : German writing until 1450 / Almut Suerbaum -- 2. Literature and religion in the Holy Roman Empire 1450-1700 / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly -- 3. German literature and religion 1700-1770: The shock and normalization of the infinite / John H. Smith -- 4. Literature and religion in Germany 1770-1830 / Ian Cooper -- 5. Culture, society and secularization: Literature and religion in the German-speaking world 1830-1900 / John Walker -- 6. Religion in German modernism 1900-1945 / Carolin Duttlinger -- 7. German literature and religion 1945 to the present day / Daniel Weidner.