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In 1953, UNC Press and the UNC Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures started the UNC Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures series. Over the next fifty years, the series published 127 monographs, anthologies, and critical editions. The series strove for breadth in its coverage of scholarship in the Germanic languages, covering an array of topics including medieval and modern literature, theater, linguistics, philology, onomastics, and the history of ideas. Despite the impact the books made in the field, the series was discontinued in 2004. With this project, these two partners, joined by the University of North Carolina...

In 1953, UNC Press and the UNC Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures started the UNC Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures series. Over the next fifty years, the series published 127 monographs, anthologies, and critical editions. The series strove for breadth in its coverage of scholarship in the Germanic languages, covering an array of topics including medieval and modern literature, theater, linguistics, philology, onomastics, and the history of ideas. Despite the impact the books made in the field, the series was discontinued in 2004. With this project, these two partners, joined by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, will reissue the series in print and open access digital editions, making these books discoverable and accessible to a new generation of German studies scholars and students. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Grant HZ-265135-19

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1. The End of Modernism: Elias Canetti's "Auto-da-Fé"

Title Tesim:
The End of Modernism: Elias Canetti's "Auto-da-Fé"
Creator:
Donahue, William Collins
Date of publication:
2001
Abstract Tesim:
Nobel laureate Elias Canetti wrote his novel "Auto-da-Fé" ("Die Blendung") when he and the twentieth century were still quite young. Rooted in the cultural crises of the Weimar period, "Auto-da-Fé" first received critical acclaim abroad—in England, France, and the United States—where it continues to fascinate readers of subsequent generations. "The End of Modernism" places this work in its cultural and philosophical contexts, situating the novel not only in relation to Canetti's considerable body of social thought, but also within larger debates on Freud and Freudianism, misogyny and modernism's "fragmented subject," anti-Semitism and the failure of humanism, contemporary philosophy and philosophical fads, and traditionalist notions of literature and escapist conceptions of history. "The End of Modernism" portrays "Auto-da-Fé" as an exemplum of "analytic modernism," and in this sense a crucial endpoint in the progression of postwar conceptions of literary modernism.
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Book
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/qffw-c423
ISBN:
9781469657431
Language Label:
English
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Donahue, William Collins
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
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Series:
University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures
Source:
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Subject:
German literature

2. The Construction of Textual Authority in German Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods

Title Tesim:
The Construction of Textual Authority in German Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
Creator:
Poag, James F. and Baldwin, Claire
Date of publication:
2001
Abstract Tesim:
Interest in the intersections of various kinds of discourse provides the basis for a closer look at diverse textual strategies of cultural legitimation. This collection presents an introductory essay and eleven studies (written in English and German) that address claims to authority associated with differing kinds of texts from such varied perspectives as political performance, popular culture, history of science, interrelations between verbal texts and other arts, and artistic professionalism. Read together, these studies illuminate historical contingencies and reveal important changes in the ""technologies of authority"" from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries. The contributors are Claire Baldwin, Thomas Cramer, Arthur Groos, Walter Haug, C. Stephen Jaeger, Jane O. Newman, James F. Poag, David Price, Rüdiger Schnell, Lynne Tatlock, Horst Wenzel, and Gerhild Scholz Williams.
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Book
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http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/n8dm-d853
ISBN:
9781469658155
Language Label:
English
License Label:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
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Person:
Poag, James F. and Baldwin, Claire
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
Rights Statement Label:
In Copyright
Series:
University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures
Source:
ff365d93t
Subject:
German literature

3. Literary Culture in the Holy Roman Empire, 1555-1720

Title Tesim:
Literary Culture in the Holy Roman Empire, 1555-1720
Creator:
Schade, Richard Erich, Parante Jr., James A., and Schoolfield, George C.
Date of publication:
1991
Abstract Tesim:
These essays discuss approaches to early modern literature in central Europe, focusing on four pivotal areas: connections between humanism and the new scientific thought the relationship of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century literature to ancient and Renaissance European traditions the social and political context of early modern writing and the poets' self-consciousness about their work. As a whole, the volume argues that early modern writing in central Europe should not be viewed solely as literature but as the textual product of specific social, political, educational, religious, and economic circumstances. The contributors are Judith P. Aikin, Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Thomas W. Best, Dieter Breuer, Barton W. Browning, Gerald Gillespie, Anthony Grafton, Gerhart Hoffmeister, Uwe-K. Ketelsen, Joseph Leighton, Ulrich Maché, Michael M. Metzger, James A. Parente, Jr., Richard Erich Schade, George C. Schoolfield, Peter Skrine, and Ferdinand van Ingen.
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Book
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http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/h76a-tb32
ISBN:
9781469656571
Language Label:
English
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
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Person:
Schade, Richard Erich, Parante Jr., James A., and Schoolfield, George C.
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
Rights Statement Label:
In Copyright
Series:
University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures
Source:
b8515x25v
Subject:
German literature

4. Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany

Title Tesim:
Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany
Creator:
Williams, Gerhild Scholz and Schindler, Stephan K.
Date of publication:
1996
Abstract Tesim:
Early modern Germany saw the dissemination of vast quantities of information at unprecedented speed. Popular knowledge, scientific inquiry, and scholarship influenced the political order, poetic expression, public opinion, and mechanisms of social control. This collection presents twelve essays by distinguished scholars regarding the transcendent nature of the Divine, the natural world, the body, sexuality, intellectual property, aesthetics, demons, and witches. The contributors are Thomas Cramer, Walter Haug, C. Stephen Jaeger, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Jan-Dirk Måller, James A. Parente, Jr., Stephan K. Schindler, Gerhard F. Strasser, Lynne Tatlock, Elaine Tennant, Horst Wenzel, and Gerhild Scholz Williams.
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Book
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http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/yg4k-0p69
ISBN:
9781469656472
Language Label:
English
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
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Person:
Williams, Gerhild Scholz and Schindler, Stephan K.
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
Rights Statement Label:
In Copyright
Series:
UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures
Source:
cf95jm32n
Subject:
German literature

5. The "Parzival" of Wolfram von Eschenbach: Translated into English Verse with Introduction, Notes, Connecting Summaries

Title Tesim:
The "Parzival" of Wolfram von Eschenbach: Translated into English Verse with Introduction, Notes, Connecting Summaries
Creator:
Zeydel, Edwin H. and Morgan, Bayard Quincy
Date of publication:
1951
Abstract Tesim:
Originally published in 1951, this collaboration of two accomplished translators resulted in the first English verse translation of a major work of German literature. Rather than a translation of the entire poem, in this volume the translators present key passages connected by prose summaries, and include an introduction giving an overview of the work and its historical and literary context.
Resource type:
Book
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http://windsor.libint.unc.edu:8181/fcrepo/rest/prod/57/12/67/0e/5712670e-9b3b-47bd-8803-71972a5a81d5
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/2sx9-h561
ISBN:
9781469658735
Language Label:
English
License Label:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
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Person:
Zeydel, Edwin H. and Morgan, Bayard Quincy
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
Rights Statement Label:
In Copyright
Series:
UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures
Source:
pn89dc85q
Subject:
Poetry and German Literature

6. Ruodlieb: The Earliest Courtly Novel (after 1050)

Title Tesim:
Ruodlieb: The Earliest Courtly Novel (after 1050)
Creator:
Zeydel, Edwin H.
Date of publication:
1959
Abstract Tesim:
Considered the earliest courtly romance in Germany, "Ruodlieb" is an invaluable document of eleventh century European society and a fascinating link in the development of the novel of chivalry. This edition by Edwin H. Zeydel (first published in 1959) with Latin text and the first English translation on facing pages is based upon painstaking study of the manuscripts, with many fragmentary lines completed and 450 corrections of Langosch's text. Zeydel's introduction to the history of the text and appendices with literary commentary and textual notes make this the first critical edition of "Ruodlieb" utilizing the manuscript to appear since Seiler's work in 1882.
Resource type:
Book
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http://windsor.libint.unc.edu:8181/fcrepo/rest/prod/57/12/67/0e/5712670e-9b3b-47bd-8803-71972a5a81d5
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/ktny-sy27
ISBN:
9781469658711
Language Label:
English
License Label:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
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Other Affiliation:
Person:
Zeydel, Edwin H.
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
Rights Statement Label:
In Copyright
Series:
UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures
Source:
wp988r58n
Subject:
Poetry and German Literature

7. Poems of Goethe: A Sequel to "Goethe, the Lyrist"

Title Tesim:
Poems of Goethe: A Sequel to "Goethe, the Lyrist"
Creator:
Zeydel, Edwin H.
Date of publication:
1957
Abstract Tesim:
Following his previous translation of one hundred of Goethe's poems, in this volume Zeydel presents translations of a selection of Goethe's shorter poems, the majority of which were written in the last twenty years of his life. The translator gives careful attention to details of substance, form and style, and to the spirit of the original, reproducing the simplicity and naturalness of language so characteristic of Goethe. The original text in German appears on facing pages.
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Book
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http://windsor.libint.unc.edu:8181/fcrepo/rest/prod/57/12/67/0e/5712670e-9b3b-47bd-8803-71972a5a81d5
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/wqjg-0c39
ISBN:
9781469658698
Language Label:
English
License Label:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
ORCID:
Other Affiliation:
Person:
Zeydel, Edwin H.
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
Rights Statement Label:
In Copyright
Series:
UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures
Source:
9880vx36z
Subject:
German Literature and Poetry

8. Gregorius: A Medieval Oedipus Legend

Title Tesim:
Gregorius: A Medieval Oedipus Legend
Creator:
Morgan, Bayard Quincy, Zeydel, Edwin H., and Von Aue, Hartmann
Date of publication:
1955
Abstract Tesim:
Originally published in 1955, this rendering in rhyming couplets was the first English translation to appear of the medieval Oedipus legend of Gregorius, made known to readers by Thomas Mann in his novel "The Holy Sinner" (1951). The introduction situates Hartmann's poem in the pantheon of Gregorius legends by writers from Sophocles to Mann.
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Book
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http://windsor.libint.unc.edu:8181/fcrepo/rest/prod/57/12/67/0e/5712670e-9b3b-47bd-8803-71972a5a81d5
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/ken2-hd69
ISBN:
9781469658674
Language Label:
English
License Label:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
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Person:
Morgan, Bayard Quincy, Zeydel, Edwin H., and Von Aue, Hartmann
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
Rights Statement Label:
In Copyright
Series:
UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures
Source:
t148fp46d
Subject:
German Literature and Poetry

9. Goethe, the Lyrist: 100 Poems in New Translations Facing the Originals with a Biographical Introduction

Title Tesim:
Goethe, the Lyrist: 100 Poems in New Translations Facing the Originals with a Biographical Introduction
Creator:
Zeydel, Edwin H.
Date of publication:
1955
Abstract Tesim:
In this volume originally published in 1955, Zeydel provides English translations of one hundred of Goethe's poems divided into nine periods. The biographical introduction traces Goethe's development as seen in his poems and an appendix gives information on musical settings to the poems.
Resource type:
Book
Deposit Record:
http://windsor.libint.unc.edu:8181/fcrepo/rest/prod/57/12/67/0e/5712670e-9b3b-47bd-8803-71972a5a81d5
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/xdbn-dh05
ISBN:
9781469658667
Language Label:
English
License Label:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
ORCID:
Other Affiliation:
Person:
Zeydel, Edwin H.
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
Rights Statement Label:
In Copyright
Series:
UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures
Source:
g732dg26n
Subject:
Poetry and German Literature

10. Ecbasis Cuiusdam Captivi Per Tropologiam—Escape of a Certain Captive Told in a Figurative Manner: An Eleventh-Century Latin Beast Epic

Title Tesim:
Ecbasis Cuiusdam Captivi Per Tropologiam—Escape of a Certain Captive Told in a Figurative Manner: An Eleventh-Century Latin Beast Epic
Creator:
Zeydel, Edwin H.
Date of publication:
1964
Abstract Tesim:
The oldest medieval beast epic was translated literally into English prose for the first time in this volume, with Latin on facing pages. The introduction and commentary by Zeydel familiarize the reader with the history and value of the text and constituted a new approach, arguing for the inclusion of Latin literature composed in what is now Germany in the history of German literature.
Resource type:
Book
Deposit Record:
http://windsor.libint.unc.edu:8181/fcrepo/rest/prod/57/12/67/0e/5712670e-9b3b-47bd-8803-71972a5a81d5
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/10ed-eb93
ISBN:
9781469658643
Language Label:
English
License Label:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
ORCID:
Other Affiliation:
Person:
Zeydel, Edwin H.
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
Rights Statement Label:
In Copyright
Series:
UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures
Source:
f7623k04z
Subject:
Poetry and German Literature