Originally published in 1965, this book was written to provide ‘a not too obtrusive guide’ to German poetry from Luther’s time up until Brecht’s. The text consists of poems followed…

This book argues that German literature since 1871 has been dominated by the tendency to think in polar opposites which are diametrically opposed yet capable of fusion, and considers how…

Wandering Between Two Worlds: The Formative Years of Cao Xueqin 1715-1745 is a biographical account of the first 30 years of the life of the eighteenth-century Chinese novelist who wrote…

This 1952 study details Goethe’s youthful readings in alchemy, showing how these influences were processed and transformed into Goethe’s poetic and scientific accounts of reality. It will interest readers of…

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…