Further Reading
- Bridgwater, W. P., "C. F. Meyer and Nietzsche," The Modern Language Review 60, No. 4 (October 1965): 568-83. (Examines the elements of convergence between Meyer and Nietzsche's worldviews.)
- Burkhard, Arthur, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer: The Style and the Man, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1932, 225 p. (An early study of Meyer's literary style analyzed in connection with biographical details.)
- Burkhard, Marianne, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1978, 175 p. (Comprehensive overview of Meyer's life and work.)
- Dahme, Lena F., Women in the Life and Art of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, New York: Columbia University Press, 1936, 420 p. (Investigates the characterization of females in Meyer's work and his personal relationships with women.)
- Grinstein, Alexander, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer and Freud: The Beginnings of Applied Psychoanalysis, Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press, 1991, 399 p. (Provides a psychoanalytical analysis of Meyer's work.)
- Hardaway, R. T., "C. F. Meyer's Der Heilige in Relation to Its Sources," PMLA 58, No. 1 (March 1943): 245-63. (Identifies the source material for Der Heilige and elucidates how Meyer altered these sources.)
- Hardaway, R. T., "Dreams and Visions in the Works of C. F. Meyer," The Journal of English and Germanic Philology XXXI, No. 1 (January 1932): 84-91. (Explores Meyer's use of dreams and visions in his short fiction.)
- Hart, Gail K., "The Facts of Fiction: C. F. Meyer's Dismantling of Facticity," Seminar XXVI, No. 3 (September 1990): 222-36. (Maintains that Meyer's historical novellas are examples of "realistic realism"; that is, his fictions "are apparently similar but essentially different" from historical events.)
- Holub, Robert C., "The Narrator of Realism: Orientalism in C. F. Meyer's Der Heilige," in Reflections of Realism: Paradox, Norm, and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century German Prose, pp. 152-73. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991. (Discusses the xenophobic nature of Der Heilige.)
- Jackson, D. A., "Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Hutten letzte Tage and the Liberal Ideal," in Oxford German Studies 5, edited by T. J. Reed, pp. 67-89. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. (Traces the veiled literary manifestations of Meyer's political liberalism.)
- Jackson, D. A., "Dante the Dupe in C. F. Meyer's Die Hochzeit des Mönchs," German Life and Letters 25, No. 1 (October 1971): 5-15. (Explores the autobiographical aspects of the novella.)
- Jacobson, Manfred R., "The Motif of the Hunt in C. F. Meyer's Der Heilige," Forum for Modern Language Studies 16, No. 1 (January 1980): 46-52. (Determines the symbolic meaning of the hunting motif in the novella.)
- Jennings, Lee B., "The Ambiguous Explosion: C. F. Meyer's Der Schuβ von der Kanzel," The German Quarterly 43, No. 2 (March 1970): 210-22. (Contends that psychoanalytic insights govern Meyer's portrayals of nineteenth-century bourgeois life.)
- Klenze, Camillo von, "Realism and Romanticism in Two Great Narrators: Keller and Meyer," in From Goethe to Hauptmann: Studies in a Changing Culture, pp. 130-55. New York: The Viking Press, 1926. (Contrasts Meyer's life and work with that of Gottfried Keller.)
- Komar, Kathleen L., "Fact, Fiction, and Focus: Their Structural Embodiment in C. F. Meyer's Der Heilige," Colloquia Germanica 14, No. 3 (1981): 332-41. (Studies Meyer's innovative use of framing in Der Heilige.)
- Laane, Tiiu V., Imagery in Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's Prose Works: Form, Motifs, and Functions, Berne: Peter Lang, 1983, 258 p. (A thorough discussion of recurring themes and images in Meyer's novellas.)
- Lund, Deborah S., Ambiguity as Narrative: Strategy in the Prose Work of C. F. Meyer, New York: Peter Lang, 1990, 207 p. (Contends that Meyer's writing is dominated in a variety of respects by the logic of ambiguity.)
- Plater, Edward M. V., "The Banquet of Life: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's Die Versuchung des Pescara," Seminar VIII, No. 2 (June 1972): 88-98. (Views the description of the biblical fresco as a symbolic motif in the novella.)
- Plater, Edward M. V., "The Figure of Dante in Die Hochzeit des Mönchs," Modern Language Notes 90, No. 5 (October 1975): 678-86. (Examines the complex role of Dante Alighieri as mediator between the frame of the story and its narrative content.)
- Reinhardt, George W., "The Political Views of the Young Conrad Ferdinand Meyer: With a Note on Das Amulett," German Quarterly XLV, No. 2 (March 1972): 270-94. (Assesses the changing political climate of Switzerland during Meyer's early literary career and describes him as a political moderate.)
- Reinhardt, George W., "Two Romance Wordplays in C. F. Meyer's Novellen," The Germanic Review XLVI, No. 1 (January 1971): 43-62. (Explores the function of puns in Die Hochzeit des Mönchs and Das Leiden eines Knaben.)
- Schimmelpfennig, Paul, "Meyer's Religion of the Heart: A Reevaluation of Das Amulett," The Germanic Review 47, No. 3 (May 1972): 181-202. (Disputes the common critical conclusion that the early novella Das Amulett lacks the stylistic and psychological sophistication of Meyer's later work.)
- Swales, Martin, "Fagon's Defeat: Some Remarks of C. F. Meyer's Das Leiden eines Knaben," The Germanic Review LII, No. 1 (January 1977): 29-43. (Examines Fagon's role as failed narrator in the novella.)
- Tusken, Lewis W., "C. F. Meyer's Der Heilige: The Problem of Becket's Conversion," Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 7, No. 3 (October 1971): 201-15. (Claims that Meyer subtly maintains the complexity of Thomas à Becket's motivations in his fictional portrayal of the archbishop's "conversion.")
- Williams, W. D., The Stories of C. F. Meyer, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962, 221 p. (Charts Meyer's innovations in his prose narratives and includes critical discussions of the major novellas.)
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