The name Friedrich Baron de la Motte Fouqué rose like a comet on the literary horizon of the early nineteenth century but faded as suddenly as it had appeared. Beginning in 1810 all segments of German society, from the aristocracy to the working c...
Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldebrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into English and other languages. The novel...
NEEDHAM, MASS. -- Undine Davis Young died peacefully in her sleep at Wyngate Nursing and Rehabilitation Home in Needham on May 13, 1999. Although she lived with her son, Davis, in Newton, Mass., throughout most of the 1990s, she was forever a ''Virginia Pearl''...
Justice is one of the moral virtues that, to the greatest degree, orients people toward a community and governs exchanges between individuals. Literature can coherently reproduce moral paradigms originating from the Aristotelian-Ciceronian tradition. The discourse of virtues permeates many levels of literature in the...
Berlin Zoo's abandoned polar bear cub Knut looks cute, cuddly and has become a front-page media darling, but an animal rights activist insisted Monday he would have been better off dead than raised by humans."Feeding by hand is not species-appropriate but a gross violation of...
