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Periodization is not an exact science but the following list contains movements or time periods typically used in discussing German literature. It seems worth noting that the periods of medieval German literature span two or three centuries, those of early modern German literature span one century, and those of modern German literature each span one or two decades.
The Old High German period sees the first attempts to use the Latin alphabet for writing German, something which Otfrid of Weissenburg, writing c. 830, recognized as fraught with difficulty. [5] As Murdoch explains, "Written down without prescriptive rules in more or less isolated monasteries, then, it is to be expected that Old High (and Old ...
Clearing Up: Coast of Sicily, Andreas Achenbach, 1847. Sturm und Drang (/ ˌ ʃ t ʊər m ʊ n t ˈ d r æ ŋ,-ˈ d r ɑː ŋ /, [1] German: [ˈʃtʊʁm ʔʊnt ˈdʁaŋ]; usually translated as "storm and stress" [2]) was a proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music that occurred between the late 1760s and early 1780s.
Linguists postulate that an early Proto-Germanic language existed and was distinguishable from the other Indo-European languages as far back as 500 BCE. [1]From what is known, the early Germanic tribes may have spoken mutually intelligible dialects derived from a common parent language but there are no written records to verify this fact.
Early Germanic Literature and Culture is a book edited by Brian O. Murdoch and Malcolm Read. The book was published by Camden House in 2004. It covers anthropological, archaeological and philological aspects of the study on early Germanic culture and literature. The chapters of the book are written by individual specialists in these fields.
The work Simplicius Simplicissimus consists of five books nominally published 1668, with a sequel Continuatio appearing in 1669. Each book is in turn divided into chapters. [1] [2] [a] The Continuatio is considered the sixth book of the same cycle by scholars, though Grimmelshausen altogether produced ten titles which he claimed belong to the same set.
Lenore had a profound effect on the development of Romantic literature throughout Europe [10] and a strong influence on the English ballad-writing revival of the 1790s. [11] According to German language scholar John George Robertson, [8] [Lenore] exerted a more widespread influence than perhaps any other short poem in the literature of the world.
Middle High German literature refers to literature written in German between the middle of the 11th century and the middle of the 14th. In the second half of the 12th century, there was a sudden intensification of activity, leading to a 60-year "golden age" of medieval German literature referred to as the mittelhochdeutsche Blütezeit (c. 1170 – c. 1230).