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Theodor Storm (1817 – 88),
poet and short-story writer, was born in Schleswig... As early as 1843
he had made himself known as a lyrical poet of the Romantic School, ...but
he wrote nothing that excels, in depth and tenderness of feeling, the
charming story of Immensee; and taking his work all in all, Storm still
ranks today as a master of the short story in Ger-man literature, rich
though it is in this form of prose-fiction. Peter Schlemihl, one of the pleasantest fancies
of the days when Germany delighted in romance, was first published in
1814. The story is a poet’s whim. Later writings of Adelbert
von Chamisso (1781–1838) proved him to be one of the best
lyric poets of the romance school of his time, entirely German in his
tone of thought. Brigitta is usually regarded as an early example
of German realism and written by probably the most accomplished Austrian
prose writer of the nineteenth century, Adalbert Stifter
(1805 – 68)..., an illustration of Stifter’s didactic con-cern
with inner beauty in contrast to outward appearances... Stifter instructs
us in more than inner beauty by demonstrating for us – perhaps unwittingly
– that the preferred and positive values of the civilized world are
always already informed by their antinomies. |
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