The Swiss poet and prose writer Conrad Ferdinand Meyer ranks as one of the distinguished literary figures in German literature in the late nineteenth century. His cool and aristocratic art, wrought wi...
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In the following review of an early English translation of The Saint, Douglas lauds the novella for its romantic elements.
Embedded like imperishable gems in a hidden fastness, the romances of Meye...
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In the following essay, Rowland analyzes the interweaving of structure, motifs, and narrative perspective in Meyer's novella.
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's Plautus im Nonnenkloster has bee...
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In the following essay, Laane explores the variety of imagery used in Die Versuchung des Pescara.
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's commitment to impart pictorial force to language is well known. Pro...
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In the following essay, Lund contends that the character of Angela Borgia "fails as a figure in the novella because of her unyielding 'masculine' strength of character."
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In the following essay, Bennett discusses the defining characteristics of Meyer's short fiction.
If [Paul] Heyse may be described as the aesthete and mass-producer of the Novelle, the Swiss ...
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In the following excerpt, Walker discusses the major themes of Meyer's Der Heilige and traces the religious development of the novella's protagonist, Thomas Becket.
Critics will never...
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In the following essay, Jennings offers a psychoanalytical interpretation of Meyer's novella.
Der Schuss von der Kanzel is at once the least pretentious of Meyer's Novellen and the on...
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In the following essay, Plater determines the significance of the narrator, Dante Alighieri, in the novella and finds connections between Dante, the protagonist of the story, Astorre, and Meyer.
Di...
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In the following essay, Folkers provides a stylistic and thematic overview of Meyer's novellas,
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-1898) is a prominent figure in German literature and one of the m...
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In the following essay, McCort discusses the stylistic techniques Meyer utilizes to achieve realism in Das Amulett.
It has been long in coming, but due recognition is finally being accorded Conrad ...
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In the following essay, Jacobson considers the significance of the relationship between the characters of King Louis XIV and Fagon in Meyer's novella.
The frame of Das Leiden eines Knaben is...
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In the following essay, Plater explores the function of Alcuin's fable within Die Richterin, asserting that Meyer succeeded in "suggesting not only an important scene later in the narrat...
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In the following essay, first published in Russian in 1936-37, Lukács reads Meyer's historical portrayals as critical reflections on the "innermost conflicts" of modern bou...
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In the following excerpt, McCort considers Meyer's Gustav Adolfs Page a psychological "tragic drama " of the repression of femininity that leads to a fundamental distortion of the...
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In the following excerpt, Henel discusses the evolution of one of the central themes in Meyer's poetry of the seasons—the "conflict between pagan and Christian imagery. "
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In the essay that follows, Beharriell examines Freud's interest in Meyer's writing as it anticipates major elements of psychoanalytic theory, such as wish-fulfillment, the fantasy Freud ...
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In the essay that follows, Plater argues that the allegorical complexity of Meyer's narratives allows him to represent the ambivalence and self-contradiction of human thought and emotion.
Th...
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In the following essay, Jacobson contends that the narrator's attempt to understand Thomas à Becket in Die Heilige exposes a distinction, crucial for Meyer, between inherent and artifici...
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In the following essay, Swales claims that Meyer's Das Leiden eines Knaben dramatizes the problem of artistic construction, which, through its very engagement with experience, introduces a cert...
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In the essay that follows, McCort traces the conflict in Meyer's Das Amulett between nostalgia for an existentially comforting world order and a persistent skepticism regarding the possibility ...
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In the following essay, Plater examines the significance of the complex objectification of inner life in Meyer's novellas.
The underlying principle of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's narrati...
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In the essay that follows, Burkhard discusses Meyer's careful experimentation with poetic structure, particularly in his aesthetic treatment of death.
For all his extensive work in prose sin...
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Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Critical Review by Donald Douglas
