基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：192 页
出版日期：2000年12月
ISBN：0140447326
条形码：9780140447323
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics

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The German Romantic movement arose in response to the turmoil of the French Revolution and to the Enlightenment's emphasis on science and reason. Nostalgia for the past and a fascination with mysticism and medivialism caused a group of writers to adopt the foremost form of the Kunstmar or "literary fairy tales." This collection, vividly illustrating the development of German Romanticism, presents four of the genre's key texts that still have the power to enchant and disturb. Goethe's The Fairy Tale (1795)--an ethereal story of prophecy and resurrection--helped establish of the genre. Ludwig Tieck's Eckbert the Fair (1792) is a dark story of incest and murder. Friedrich de la Motte Fouque describes the unhappy fate of a wood nymph with the soul of a woman in Undine (1811). In The Tale of Honest Casper and Fair Annie (1817), Clemens Brentano tells the tale of young couple destroyed by a false sense of honor.
作者简介 Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832), the leading figure in Germany's Sturm und Drang ("Storm and Stress") movement, was the author of such classic works as Werther, Faust, and Egmont.
Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) wrote a number of successful works for the stage, including Puss in Boots and Blue Beard.
Friedrich de la Motte FouquŽ (1777--1843), best known for his prose romances, also wrote poetry and plays.
Clemens Brentano (1778-1842), a poet, novelist and dramatist, wrote many of the most famous Romantic fairy tales.
Carol Tully is a lecturer in German at the University of Wales, Bangor, and the author of Creating a National Identity: A Comparative Study of German and Spanish Romanticism.