The Jews' Beech Tree: A Moral Portrait from Mountainous Westphalia

by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Jolyon Timothy Hughes (Editor)

Overview

The book provides a sentence-by-sentence translation of Die Judenbuche (1842) by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, arguably one of Germany’s greatest female poets. Often thought of as a detective novel, The Jews’ Beech Tree is as much a mystery to read today as it was in 1842. Featuring the original German and the translated English side-by-side, this text also includes three critical introductions and two additional poetry translations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761861911
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	03/31/2014
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jolyon Timothy Hughes is an associate professor of German at Colorado State University. Dr. Hughes teaches translation, German for business, history of Germanic languages, German phonetics and German culture up to 1871. He has developed and maintained study abroad programs for summer, semester and year in Hanover, Berlin, Bamberg, Freiburg, Germany and Graz, Austria.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS
PREFACE
THE AUTHOR: JANUARY 10TH, 1797 – MAY 24TH, 1848
THE ANNETTE VON DROSTE–HÜLSHOFF SYNDROME
THE JEWS’ BEECH TREE: INTRODUCTION TO THE WORK
Der Knabe im Moor — Young Boy in the Marsh
Map of Germany and its Neighbors
BELLERSEN AND THE SURROUNDING AREA
DIE JUDENBUCHE: EIN SITTENGEMÄLDE AUS DEM GEBIRGICHTEN WESTFALEN
THE JEWS’ BEECH TREE: A MORAL PORTRAIT FROM MOUNTAINOUS WESTPHALIA
SEKTION II: 1747 – 1751
SECTION II: 1747 – 1751
SEKTION III: 1756 – 1760
SECTION III: 1756 – 1760
SEKTION IV: 1760
SECTION IV: 1760
SEKTION V: 1788
SECTION V: 1788
WORKS CITED
NOTES ON THE TRANSLATION