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Veneration and Revolt: Hermann Hesse and Swabian Pietism(Editions SR)


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One of the most widely read German authors in the world, Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. After his death, his novels enjoyed a revival of popularity, becoming a staple of popular religion and spirituality in Europe and North America. Veneration and Revolt: Hermann Hesse and Swabian Pietism is the first comprehensive study of the impact of German Pietism (the religion of Hesse's family and native Swabia) on Hesse's life and literature. Hesse's literature bears witness to a lifelong conversation with his religious heritage despite that in adolescence he rejected his family's expectation that he become a theologian, cleric, and missionary. Hesse's Pietist upbringing and broader Swabian heritage contributed to his moral and political views, his pacifism and internationalism, the confessional and autobiographical style of his literature, his romantic mysticism, his suspicion of bourgeois culture, his ecumenical outlook, and, in an era scarred by two world wars, his hopes for the future. Veneration and Revolt offers a unique perspective on the life and works of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers.

Table of Contents:
Veneration and Revolt: Hermann Hesse and Swabian Pietism by Barry Stephenson Momani Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Hermann Hesse: The Missionary's Son Part I: Contexts Pietism: A First Glance The Swabian Mandarins The Maulbronn Affair Romantics and Pietists Part II: Setting Out Hesse's ""Religion of Art"" Peter Camenzind: Rejection of Aestheticism Beneath the Wheel: The Anti-School Novel Demian: Chiliastic Vision War, Church, and State Part III: Turning Back Siddhartha: Swabian Mysticism ""Breaking the Will"" Steppenwolf: ""The Hell of Myself"" Narcissus and Goldmund: Reconciliation Part IV: Coming Home The Journey to the East: Narrating a Life/History Joseph Knecht and The Glass Bead Game: Spiritual Heritage Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Barry Stephenson teaches in the Department of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, and conducts research in religion, and literature and ritual studies. He is presently completing a book and DVD on Luther-themed festivity and religious tourism in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany.

Review :
"The enormous commentary on Hesse rarely takes this Pietist context seriously, but according to Stephenson, it is impossible to understand Hesse without understanding Pietism.... Stephenson's argument is compelling and its implications are striking.... Clearly and engagingly written, thoroughly rooted in Hesse's work and the vast commentary on Hesse, Stephenson's book is a fine general introduction to Hesse, as well as a powerful argument about the roots of Hesse's art. An important contribution to Hesse studies, Veneration and Revolt also contributes significantly to the ongoing debate about the origins, meanings, and trajectories of modernity." -- Robert Weldon Whalen, Queens University of Charlotte -- German Studies Review, 34/3, 2011, 201111 "Taking his title from Hesse, Barry Stephenson has given us the first thorough appreciation of the Nobel Prize--winner within the religious culture from which he emerged. Hesse's debt to pietism, against which he rebelled yet which he always venerated as his spiritual heritage, was long a commonplace. But no previous scholar approached the problematic topic with the requisite background in religious studies that informs this book. Beginning with the history of Pietism and its role in Swabia and German Romanticism, it moves through Hesse's life and oeuvre, exposing significant new dimensions from his early 'religion of art' to The Glass Bead Game. This major and highly readable contribution forces us to contemplate Hesse's novels in a wholly original and edifying light." -- Theodore Ziolkowski, Princeton University, author of Modes of Faith (2007), and Minos and the Moderns (2008) -- 200901


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781554581498
  • Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 300
  • Series Title: Editions SR
  • Sub Title: Hermann Hesse and Swabian Pietism
  • Width: 158 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1554581494
  • Publisher Date: 28 Feb 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 600 gr


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