Publications
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Techniques of Solipsism
(1970)
Theodor Storm, born in 1817, was at first a poet of the bleak North Sea plains, but emerged after the liberal revolutions of 1848 as a major German writer of novellas. Though considered a social realist, Storm also asked ...
Voltaire's Disciple
(1972)
Although events in La Harpe's life led him to become a friend of the Catholic revival during which Chateaubriand, to name only one, was pleased to have his support, he is rightly best remembered as a disciple of Voltaire ...
Matthew Arnold and Goethe
(1979)
Writing to Cardinal Newman in 1872, Arnold said that there are four people, 'in especial', from whom he had learned habits: Goethe, Wordsworth, Saint-Beuve, and Newman himself. His notebooks and reading lists confirm a ...
The Significance of Locality in the Poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin
(1979)
Hölderlin's poetic world, seen at its most coherent in the mature poetry of 1800-02, is part classical and Homeric, part allegorical and vague, and part based on the true geography of his beloved homeland, Swabia — his ...
The Theme of Love in the 'Romans d'Antiquité'
(1972)
The group of romans antiques comprises the romans of Thèbes, Eneas, Troie and Alexandre, and the poems of Piramus et Tisbé and Narcisus. These works have two points in common: they all deal with material from Greek or Roman ...
Jean Brisebarre: 'Li Restor du Paon'
(1980)
This is a critical edition of the Restor du Paon, a poem attributed to Jean Brisebarre which was composed some time before 1338, though its exact date is uncertain. This book, originally published in paperback in 1980 under ...
Epic and Chronicle
(1983)
The Poema de mio Cid is one of the oldest extant literary works in Castilian, and the most complete epic poem of the Spanish medieval period now known to us in a form close to that in which it was originally written, perhaps ...
Character, Ideology, and Symbolism in the Plays of Wedekind, Sternheim, Kaiser, Toller, and Brecht
(1985)
Gonçalves da Silva studies a range of expressionist playwrights who transformed German drama in the twentieth century: from Frank Wedekind, who grew up in a Swiss castle, became an actor and was imprisoned for satirical ...
Herder and the Philosophy and History of Science
(1970)
This book, originally published in 1970 and later given the ISBN 978-0-900547-06-5, was made Open Access in 2024 as part of the MHRA Revivals programme.
The Vorau 'Moses' and 'Balaam'
(1970)
A study of the Vorauer Bücher Moses, a collection of vernacular poems in Early High Middle German from the twelfth-century MS 276. The text, named for the Styrian monastery of Vorau where MS 276 was found, was probably ...