Theodor Storm | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 27 pages of analysis & critique of Theodor Storm.

Theodor Storm | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 27 pages of analysis & critique of Theodor Storm.
This section contains 7,667 words
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SOURCE: "Theodor Storm," in German Men of Letters: Twelve Literary Essays, edited by Alex Natan, Dufour Editions, 1962, pp. 147-67.

In the following essay, Mainland examines Storm's provincial attitudes and upbringing and the effect they had on many of his novellas.

Da hörte Gabriel einen Ton, dumpf, als käme er aus der Erde; und der Boden unter ihm schüttelte kaum merklich. Da war es wieder und bald noch einmal. Was geschah drüben, dass jetzt zur Nachtzeit die Kanonen gingen?—Regine schien nichts davon gehört zu haben; denn sie hob den Kopf ein wenig und sagte: 'Es schlägt zehn Uhr im Dorf.'

This text occurs near the end of a little prose idyll which Storm called Ein grünes Blatt and published in 1850. From the eight decades which extend round that year the political and social historian records events and movements of such...

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