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German literature
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......Reformation, High German, and Literary Academies: The...a flowering of German literature with...absolutist tendencies. Literary academies, arising...age's greatest German poet.RomanticismAt...the 18th cent. literary romanticism, initiated......
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Schiller, Friedrich von
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......Friedrich von Schiller, 1759–1805, German dramatist, poet, and historian, one of the greatest of German literary figures, b. Marbach, Württemberg. The poets of German romanticism were strongly influenced by......
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expressionism
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......a group of early 20th-century German dramatists, including Kaiser...Krispyn, Style and Society in German Literary Expressionism (1964); P. Vogt et al., Expressionism: A German Intuition, 1905–1920 (1980......
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Tucholsky, Kurt
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......tōōkhôl´skē), 1890–1935, German political satirist and journalist...writing marked a high point in German literary journalism. He wrote under four...Peter Panter (theater and literary criticism, travel), Theobald......
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Arnim, Achim von
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......fən är´nĬm), 1781–1831, German writer of the romantic school. He...he helped to create a popular German literary tradition. His wife, Bettina von...tr. 1837). She was an ardent literary supporter of liberal Young Germany......
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Gottsched, Johann Christoph
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......Gottsched (yō´hän krĬs´tôf gôt´shĕt), 1700–1766, German literary critic, disciple of the Enlightenment. As professor...and he exerted great influence upon 18th-century German letters, largely through the controversies he aroused......
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transcendentalism (American literary and philosophical movement)
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......overpassing], in literature, philosophical and literary movement that flourished in New England...basic idealistic concepts from romantic German philosophy, notably that of Immanuel...and Its Legacy (1966); L. Buell, Literary Transcendentalism (1973)....
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Lewisohn, Ludwig
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......1955, American author, b. Berlin. After teaching German at Ohio State (1911–19), he was associate...Besides making several notable translations from the German, he was a distinguished literary and drama critic; among his critical works are......
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Dutch and Flemish literature
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...Dutch and Flemish literature, literary works written in the standard language of the Low...Countries displays a strong French and somewhat weaker German influence in its vocabulary and literary style. Middle Dutch literature shows the same general......
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Swiss literature
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......Among the monks of considerable literary achievements were Notker Balbulus...These men wrote mainly in Middle High German, but at the same time High German and Swiss regional dialects came into literary use. Religious writing was established......