Heinrich Heine

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Heine in England and America: A Bibliographical Check-List, edited by Armin Arnold. London: Linden Press, 1959, 80 p.

Lists criticism and translations of Heine's works.

BIOGRAPHIES

Heinrich Heine: A Biographical Anthology, edited by Hugo Bieber. Philadelphia, Penn.: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1956, 452 p.

Presents a collection of Heine's letters and essays and relates them to the events in his life.

Brod, Max. Heinrich Heine: The Artist in Revolt, translated by Joseph Witriol. New York: New York University Press, 1957, 355 p.

Surveys Heine's life with an emphasis on his German-Jewish background.

Pawel, Ernst. The Poet Dying: Heinrich Heine's Last Years in Paris, Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1998, 277 p.

Focuses on Heine's writings after the revolutions of 1848.

Philip, Kossoff. Valiant Heart: A Biography of Heinrich Heine, New York: Cornwall Books, 1983, 217 p.

Offers extensive biographical background concerning the composition of Heine's works.

Walter, H. Heinrich Heine: A Critical Examination of the Poet and His Works, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1930, 322 p.

Presents a biographical and critical study of Heine.

CRITICISM

Bernstein, Susan. “Q; or, Heine's Romanticism.” Studies in Romanticism 42, no. 3 (fall 2003): 369-91.

Discusses Heine's Florentinische Nachte.

Cook, Roger F. By the Rivers of Babylon: Heinrich Heine's Late Songs and Reflections, Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1998, 399 p.

Focuses on Heine's writings after the revolutions of 1848.

De Jauregui, Heidi Urbahn. “The Freedom of a Poetic Mind.” Partisan Review 65, no. 4 (1996): 615-26.

Discusses Heine's political views.

Duncan, L. fallon. “Allegory and Ambiguity: Heine's Ideen. Das Buch Le Grand in the Light of Schlegel's Lucinde.Heine-Jahrbuch 32 (1993): 48-73.

Compares Heine's Ideen. Das Buch Le Grand to Schlegel's Lucinde, focusing on the use of allegory.

Fairly, Barker. Heinrich Heine: An Interpretation, Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1954, 176 p.

Presents an important study of Heine's use of imagery.

Goetschel, Willi Nils Roemer. “Heine's Judaism and Its Reception.” The Germanic Review 74, no. 4 (fall 1999): 267-70.

Outlines the critical response to Heine with respect to his Judaism.

Hermand, Jost. “Heinrich Heine's ghetto tale ‘The Rabbi of Bacherach’ is published.” In The Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1096-1996, edited by Sander L. Gilman and Jack Zipes, pp. 152-57. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997.

Discusses the writing, publication, and public reception of Heine's tale.

———. “The Wandering Jew's Rhine Journey: Heine's Lorelei.” In Insiders and Outsiders: Jewish and Gentile Culture in Germany and Austria, edited by Dagmar C. G. Lorenz and Gabriele Weinberger, pp. 39-46. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1994.

Discusses the mixed reactions to Heine's Lorelei.

Holub, Robert C. “Personal Roots and German Traditions: The Jewish Element in Heine's Turn Against Romanticism.” In Heinrich Heine and Romanticism, edited by Markus Winkler, pp. 40-56. Tubingen, Germany: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1997.

Attempts to define Heine within the constructs of the romantic movement.

Justis, Diana Lynn. The Feminine in Heine's Life and Oeuvre: Self and Other, New York: Peter Lang, 1997, 247 p.

Discusses the role of female identity in Heine's work and the women in his life.

Marcuse, Ludwig. “Heine and Marx: A History and a Legend.” Germanic Review 30, no. 2 (April 1955): 110-24.

Explains Heine's relationship with early communists while denying a political alliance between Heine and Marx.

Newman, Rafael. “Heine's Aristophanes: Compromise Formations and the Ambivalence of Carnival.” Comparative Literature 49, no. 3 (summer 1997): 227-40.

Traces the notion of ambivalence from Greek mythology to Heine and his Romantic contemporaries.

O'Doherty, Paul. “The Reception of Heine's Jewishness in the Soviet Zone/GDR, 1945-1961.” German Life and Letters 52, no. 1 (January 1999): 85-96.

Notes that Heine was viewed positively as a “revolutionary” and a Marxist in post-war East Germany.

Prawer, S. S. Heine the Tragic Satirist: A Study of the Later Poetry, Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1961, 314 p.

Focuses on theme, style, and irony in Heine's later work.

Presner, Todd Samuel. “Jews on Ships; or, How Heine's Reisebilder Deconstruct Hegel's Philosophy of World History.” Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 118, no. 3 (May 2003): 521-38.

Discusses how Heine's Reisebilder (Pictures of Travel) relates to the philosophy of history expressed by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, particularly in terms of Jews and mobility.

Schlesier, Renate. “Homeric Laughter by the Rivers of Babylon: Heinrich Heine and Karl Marx.” In The Jewish Reception of Heinrich Heine, edited by Mark H. Gelber, pp. 21-43. Tubingen, Germany: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1992.

Alleges that Heine was perhaps the greatest influence on Marx.

Additional information on Heine's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale: Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography, Vol. 2; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 90; European Writers, Vol. 5; Literature Resource Center; Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vols. 4, 54; Poetry Criticism, Vol. 25; Reference Guide to World Literature, Ed. 3; and Twayne's World Authors.

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