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Identifies and explores Roman modes of poetry as received by twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglo-American, German, and French poets.

Employs an innovative approach by "stages" to offer a unified vision of European Romanticism over the half-century of its growth and decline.

Minos and the Moderns considers three mythological complexes that enjoyed a unique surge of interest in early twentieth-century European art and literature: Europa and the bull, the minotaur and the labyrinth, and Daedelus and Icarus. All three are situated on the island of Crete and are linked by the figure of King Minos. Drawing examples from fiction, poetry, drama, painting, sculpture, opera, and ballet, Minos and the Moderns is the first b...

This study examines the figure of the alchemist in literature from Dante to the present and shows how the popular response to that figure has changed through the ages.

This book analyses how the outrage caused by controversial plays or productions reflects the moral standards of the time.

A survey of conspiracy fiction. It traces the evolution of cults, orders, lodges, secret societies, and conspiracies through various literary manifestations - drama, romance, epic, novel, opera - down to the thrillers of the twenty-first century.

Im Gegensatz zum herrschenden Bild der Heidelberger Romantik, das um die Dichter Arnim, Brentano und Eichendorff kreist, stellt das Buch eine eher geistig orientierte Romantik vor, deren literarhistorische Bedeutung insbesondere in den zentralen Theoremen zum Begriff des Mythos und des Symbols in Geschichte und Religion besteht. Das Drama der Jahre 1804-1808 kulminiert zunächst im Tod der Musen Karoline von Günderode und Sophie Brentano, danac...

»Ein Genie«, sagt Lessing, »kann nur von einem Genie entzündet werden«, was sich kaum schlagender in der deutschen Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte belegen läßt als an der kongenialen Vereinigung der jungen Romantiker. Die Gebrüder Schlegel und »Madame Lucifer«, Caroline Schlegel, die spätere Frau von Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling, Ludwig Tieck, Novalis und Friedrich Schleiermacher revolutionierten mitten in der Ära Goethes Kultur, Kunst, Wissensch...

Theodore Ziolkowski is Class of 1900 Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He is the author of many books, including Clio the Romantic Muse: Historicizing the Faculties in Germany and Hesitant Heroes: Private Inhibition, Cultural Crisis, both from Cornell.

Human beings have believed in conspiracies presumably as long as there have been groups of at least three people in which one was convinced that the other two were plotting against him or her. In that sense one might look back as far as Eve and the serpent to find the world's first conspiracy. Whereas recent generations have tended to find their conspiracies in politics and government, the past often sought its mysteries in religious cults or ...

In a book certain to be of interest to readers in many disciplines, the distinguished scholar Theodore Ziolkowski shows how a strong impulse toward historical concerns was formalized in the four German academic faculties: philosophy, theology, law, and medicine/biology. In Clio the Romantic Muse, he focuses on representative figures in whose early work the sense of history was first manifested: G. W. F. Hegel, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Friedrich...

Many novels revolve round the figure of Jesus. Some of the finest of them are defined by Ziolkowski as fictional transfigurations of Jesus. They share a modern hero patterned on Jesus the culture-hero, whose life consisted of the motifs of the last supper, lonely agony, betrayal, trial, and crucifixion. The aesthetic challenge of adapting this most familiar story for their generation has attracted an unusual number of great writers, among them...

Theodore Ziolkowski is Class of 1900 Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is the author most recently of Hesitant Heroes: Private Inhibition, Cultural Crisis and Clio the Romantic Muse: Historicizing the Faculties in Germany (both from Cornell). His many other books include Virgil and the Moderns, The Mirror of Justice, and The Sin of Knowledge.

The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. In this book, the author offers a compelling account of that movement. Focusing on the works of Stravinsky, Picasso, and T S Eliot, It shows how the turn to classicism manifested itself.

In Uses and Abuses of Moses, Theodore Ziolkowski surveys the major literary treatments of the biblical figure of Moses since the Enlightenment. Beginning with the influential treatments by Schiller and Goethe, for whom Moses was, respectively, a member of a mystery cult and a violent murderer, Ziolkowski examines an impressive array of dramas, poems, operas, novels, and films to show the many ways in which the charismatic figure of Moses has b...

Explores literary characters from Aeneas to Kafka's Josef K. who experience a crucial moment of hesitation.

Illuminates unexplored dimensions of the music-literature relationship and the sometimes unrecognized talents of certain famous writers and composers.