Reading Heinrich Heine (Cambridge Studies in German)
Cambridge University Press, 3/1/2007
EAN 9780521863995, ISBN10: 0521863996
Hardcover, 322 pages, 23.4 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
This book is a comprehensive study of the nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine. Anthony Phelan examines the complete range of Heine's work, from the early poetry and 'Pictures of Travel' to the last poems, including personal polemic and journalism. Phelan provides original and detailed readings of Heine's major poetry and throws fresh light on his virtuoso political performances that have too often been neglected by critics. Through his critical relationship with Romanticism, Heine confronted the problem of modernity in startlingly original ways that still speak to the concerns of post-modern readers. Phelan highlights the importance of Heine for the critical understanding of modern literature, and in particular the responses to Heine's work by Adorno, Kraus and Benjamin. Heine emerges as a figure of immense European significance, whose writings need to be seen as a major contribution to the articulation of modernity.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. The Biographical Imperative
1. The biographical imperative
Karl Kraus
2. The biographical imperative
Theodor Adorno
3. The biographical imperative
Helmut Heißenbüttel - pro domo
4. From the private life of Everyman
self-presentation and authenticity in Buch der Lieder
5. In the diplomatic sense
on Reisebilder
Part II. The Real Heine
6. How to become a Symbolist
Heine and the anthologies of Stefan George and Rudolf Borchardt
7. The real Heine
Atta Troll and allegory
8. Ventriloquism in Ludwig Börne. Eine Denkschrift
Part III. Parisian Writing
9. Sheherazade's snapshots
Lutetia
10. Mathilde's interruption
archetypes of modernity in Heine's later poetry
Part IV. Epilogue
11. The tribe of Harry
Heine and contemporary poetry
Notes
Bibliography
Index.