Heyse and His Predecessors in the Theory of the Novelle (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Heyse and His Predecessors in the Theory of the NovelleOf the four acknowledged masters of the novelle in Ger many Theodor Storm, Paul Heyse, Gottfried Keller and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Heyse alone has expressed himself with any considerable fullness on the theory of this literary species. Just as in America Edgar Allen Poe's theory of the short story or short-story, to follow a happy suggestion of Professor Brander Matthewsl) has met with universal acceptance and appre ciation, so in Germany Heyse's famous Falcon Theory has met with general approval as being by all odds the best and clearest statement on the theory of the novelle. But Heyse's position in the historical development of this theory in Germany is quite different from that of Poe in America. Poe was the first American critic to point out the fact that the short-story is a distinct genre in literature with certain specific laws governing its composition, and American and English criticism still accepts this norm with little or no modification. Heyse on the contrary may be said to have closed a long discussion which had gone on intermittently for three quarters of a century in Germany, and which in its be ginnings antedates Poe by nearly half a century.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.