Siegfried Weing
Biographic Data
| ID | 5936753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siegfried Weing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siegfried |
| FAMILY NAME | Weing |
| SIGNATURE | WEING S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Military Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The German Novella
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Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700-1766)
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Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700-1766)
Johann Christoph Gottsched was one of the most important figures in eighteenth century German history. He established a standard for German poetics; wrote important plays for the German theatre in its infancy; and was the author of the first standard reference works on German rhetoric and grammar, the latter of which helped to found a literary language. However, his fame, particularly as a dramatist, was eclipsed by the devastating criticism of G…
The German Novella
Aristotelian Foundations of German Novella Theory
Erich Auerbach credits Boccaccio's The Decameron with introducing a new medium (prose), a new theme (actual occurrences in contemporary life), and a new genre (the novella) into the mainstream of post-classical letters (188-89). Boccaccio's innovations apparently left literary critics of the Renaissance at a loss, for they failed to develop a theory for this genre – a failure that Robert J. Clements and Joseph Gibaldi attribute to the fact that c…
The German Novella
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