In his relatively short life, Karl Immermann was a prolific writer of dramas, fiction, travelogues, memoirs, and poetry. Yet his work suffered from an uneven quality that bore the stamp of his generat...
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In the following excerpt, the critic offers a general overview of Muinchhausen, arguing that the novel can be divided into two parts: comedy and social realism.
The recent death of Immermann seems ...
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In the following essay, Jennings qualifies the common critical conception that Immermann intended to parody German Romanticism in Munchhausen.
A common interpretation of Immermann's quixotic...
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In the following essay, Jennings provides a detailed comparison of parallel scenes in Immermann's Die Epigonen and Heine's Florentinische Nachte.
As a poet, Heine is deeply concerned ...
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In the following excerpt, Holst uses a fairy tale retold in Muinchhausen to discuss Immermann's relation to German Romanticism.
For almost half a century Karl Immermann was threatened by nea...
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In the following excerpt, Minden analyzes some of the literary devices Immermann employed in Die Epigonen to depict German culture in the 1820s.
Die Epigonen (1836) cannot refer to the validating a...
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Karl (Lebrecht) Immermann
Critical Essay by The Foreign Quarterly Review
