Lee B Jennings
Biographic Data
| ID | 5777763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee B Jennings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee B |
| FAMILY NAME | Jennings |
| SIGNATURE | JENNINGS L B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Blood of the Android
Hoffmann's Der Sandmann is above all an essay on vision – on realityperception, imagination, and the interplay between the two. Hoffmann, as author-narrator in his lengthy interpolation about his difficulties in writing the story, calls attention to a common problem: communicating colorful inner experience in terms that will not render it prosaic and rob it of its color. 1 Though Hoffmann stresses the common nature of the experience, it is one th…
The Model of the Self in Gottfried Keller's Prose
Keller's Epiphanies
In study of the epiphany in the modern novel, Morris Beja, drawing on remarks of James Joyce, defines the term as follows: a sudden manifestation, whether from some object, scene, event, or memorable phase of the mind-the being out of proportion to the significance or strictly logical relevance of whatever produces it.' The spiritual manifestation is often of quasi-religious nature and approaches the mystic illumination in the feeling of inherent…
Schnitzler's Traumnovelle — Meat or Poison
The term `decadent' as applied to Schnitzler's work serves one useful purpose: it relates this work to the socio-historical background out of which it grew and to the trends of thought prevailing at that time and place. Yet the term has its drawbacks. First, the concept of `decadence' usually applied is a narrow one, developed by literary scholars (largely on the basis of Schnitzler's work, a dubiously circular procedure) and perpetuating itself …
Morikes Verhaltnis zu seinen Zeitgenossen
The Drama of Christian Friedrich Grabbe
The Ambiguous Explosion
Classroom Translation
We are familiar with the pitfalls of the old-fashioned reading and translation course. Aside from being dull and not preparing persons to communicate with native speakers of the target language, should they one day find it necessary to do so, it stressed a special skill (translation) which is not directly related to the spoken response situation by means of which syntactic patterns are early inculcated in the native speaker and by means of which …
Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner
A History of the German Novelle
The Dance of Life and Death in Heine and Immermann
Shadows from the Void” in Theodor Storm’s Novellen
(1962). “Shadows from the Void” in Theodor Storm’s Novellen. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 174-189
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Shadows from the Void” in Theodor Storm’s Novellen
(1962). “Shadows from the Void” in Theodor Storm’s Novellen. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 174-189
A History of the German Novelle
The Dance of Life and Death in Heine and Immermann
Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner
Classroom Translation
We are familiar with the pitfalls of the old-fashioned reading and translation course. Aside from being dull and not preparing persons to communicate with native speakers of the target language, should they one day find it necessary to do so, it stressed a special skill (translation) which is not directly related to the spoken response situation by means of which syntactic patterns are early inculcated in the native speaker and by means of which …
The Ambiguous Explosion
The Drama of Christian Friedrich Grabbe
Morikes Verhaltnis zu seinen Zeitgenossen
Schnitzler's Traumnovelle — Meat or Poison
The term `decadent' as applied to Schnitzler's work serves one useful purpose: it relates this work to the socio-historical background out of which it grew and to the trends of thought prevailing at that time and place. Yet the term has its drawbacks. First, the concept of `decadence' usually applied is a narrow one, developed by literary scholars (largely on the basis of Schnitzler's work, a dubiously circular procedure) and perpetuating itself …
Keller's Epiphanies
In study of the epiphany in the modern novel, Morris Beja, drawing on remarks of James Joyce, defines the term as follows: a sudden manifestation, whether from some object, scene, event, or memorable phase of the mind-the being out of proportion to the significance or strictly logical relevance of whatever produces it.' The spiritual manifestation is often of quasi-religious nature and approaches the mystic illumination in the feeling of inherent…
The Model of the Self in Gottfried Keller's Prose
Blood of the Android
Hoffmann's Der Sandmann is above all an essay on vision – on realityperception, imagination, and the interplay between the two. Hoffmann, as author-narrator in his lengthy interpolation about his difficulties in writing the story, calls attention to a common problem: communicating colorful inner experience in terms that will not render it prosaic and rob it of its color. 1 Though Hoffmann stresses the common nature of the experience, it is one th…
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