Exploring the divided self : Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf and its critics
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Exploring the divided self : Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf and its critics
（Literary criticism in perspective）
Camden House, c1996
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-157) and index
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Although Steppenwolf received little critical acclaim on its publication in 1927, it is now generally considered to be Hesse's most innovative and influential novel, comparable with Joyce's Ulysses, and becoming themost widely-read German novel of the twentieth century. This study surveys the diverse critical reception it has provoked. Taking a chronological approach, Professor Richards covers the early criticism and the primarily biographical studies of the pre-war period; the mainly German-based explorations of important facets of the work in the 1950s; the massive expansion of scholarship in the 1960s and 1970s; and the consolidating recent studies. He shows thatHesse scholarship has tended to favor a biographical approach, with a strong psychological and psychoanalytical component; newer critical methodologies have provided fresh insights and contributed to the ongoing controversies overthe novel's form and structure, its mixture of different levels of reality, and the problematic interpretation of symbolic figures and events.
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