Essays on German, American and English Literature: A Philosophical and Theological Approach

by Eugene G. Miller

Overview

In Essays on German American and English Literature, author Eugene Miller offers literary criticism, from a theological and philosophical standpoint, of many of the great dramatists and novelists of world literature. Miller analyzes and discusses major works in German, American, and English literature in an authoritative and original manner.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761832195
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/04/2007
Pages:	102
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.24(d)

About the Author

Eugene G. Miller is Professor Emeritus of German and English. Professor Miller has taught at Hobart and William Smith College, SUNY-Buffalo, Kent State University, and most recently at Niagara County Community College.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Stoicism and "The Code" in the Novels of Ernest Hemingway
Chapter 4 Rainer Maria Rilke's Das Stundenbuch (Book of Hours)
Chapter 5 The Futile Pursuit of Love in the Works of D.H. Lawrence or The Failure of Human Relationships
Chapter 6 Melville and Platonism
Chapter 7 A Look at the Frei Buhne through its early Productions of Ghosts and Vor Sonnenaufgang
Chapter 8 The Early Productions of Goethe's Faust in America
Chapter 9 Death in Venice (Short novel) by Thomas Mann
Chapter 10 Seeds of Nietzschean Thoughts in Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus
Chapter 11 Eugene O'Neill—Foremost American Dramatist and Disciple of Frederich Nietzsche
Chapter 12 George Gordon Byron—Rebel With a Cause in his Romantic Tragedy Cain
Chapter 13 Goethe's Venture into Ancient Greece's Mythology and Literature
Chapter 14 Arthur Miller and the Sartrean 'Theatre of Situation'
Chapter 15 The Golden Age of German Cinema—Prelude to Hollywood's Frankenstein Era
Chapter 16 Sinners and Suicide in Graham Greene's The Heart of The Matter
Chapter 17 Schiller and the Critics—From Schlegel to Durrenmatt
Part 18 Bibliography; Index; About the Author