A01=Wiebke Strehl
Author_Wiebke Strehl
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German literature
Literary criticism
National Socialist reading
Novella
Rehabilitation
Romanticism
Sentimental love story
Theodor Storm
Product details
- ISBN 9781571130457
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jun 2000
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A chronological and comprehensive survey of the most important English and German language criticism about the novella in historical context.
Theodor Storm (1817-88), one of the leading literary Realists of the nineteenth century, achieved world-wide popularity with the novella Immensee in 1849. The work, which Storm himself referred to as a 'Perle deutscher Poesie' (pearl of German poetry) reached over thirty editions and was translated into 17 languages by the time of the author's death. But in addition to being called a masterpiece by such leading literary lights of the day as TheodorFontane and Paul Heyse, Immensee also attracted its share of criticism from the first, for instance as a mere sentimental love story. Then in the 1930s and forties Storm's novella was seized upon by right-wing critics as appropriate National Socialist reading material, which had the effect of sullying its reputation somewhat long after 1945. Since the 1960s Immensee's critical reputation has been rehabilitated and both novella and Storm himself analyzed from a variety of viewpoints, including Marxism and democratic humanitarianism. Strehl's book chronicles the highlights of this critical history.
Wiebke Strehl is assistant professor of German at the University of South Carolina.
