Table of Contents

Introduction: From Outsider to Global Player -- Hermann Hesse in the Twenty-First Century - Ingo Cornils
Novel Ideas: Notes toward a New Reading of Hesse's Unterm Rad - Jeff Vahlbusch
Rosshalde (1914): A Portrait of the Artist as a Husband and Father - Osman Durrani
The Aesthetics of Ritual: Pollution, Magic, and Sentimentality in Hesse's Demian (1919) - Andreas Solbach
Klein und Wagner - Stefan Hoeppner
Klingsors letzter Sommer and the Transformation of Crisis - Ralph W. B. Freedman
Siddhartha - Adrian Hsia
Der Steppenwolf - Martin Swales
Hermann Hesse's Narziss und Goldmund: Medieval Imaginaries of (Post-)Modern Realities - Frederick A. Lubich
Beads of Glass, Shards of Culture, and the Art of Life: Hesse's Das Glasperlenspiel - Paul Bishop
Hesse's Poetry - Olaf Berwald
"Ob die Weiber Menschen seyn?": Hesse, Women, and Homoeroticism - Kamakshi P. Murti
Hermann Hesse's Politics - Marco Schickling
Hermann Hesse and Psychoanalysis - Volker Michels
On the Relationship between Hesse's Painting and Writing: Wanderung, Klingsors letzter Sommer, Gedichte des Malers, and Piktors Verwandlungen - Godela Weiss-Sussex
Hermann Hesse and Music - C. Immo Schneider
Hermann Hesse's Goethe - Hans-Joachim Hahn

About the Author

INGO CORNILS is Professor of German Studies at the University of Leeds. INGO CORNILS is Professor of German Studies at the University of Leeds. Paul Bishop is Professor of German and Head of Department of German at the University of Glasgow.

Reviews

The contributions are based on a good knowledge of the earlier research and yet go beyond it . . . . This new and stimulating Companion can take its rightful place among the other Hesse companions that have arisen in recent years.
*ARBITRIUM*

The composition of the volume provides a well-rounded picture of the author and his work and gains above all by virtue of the synthesis of well-known facts and completely new approaches and perspective.
*LITERATURKRITIK.DE*

[T]he authors . . . represent the elite of 21st-century Hesse criticism...[T]his outstanding collection . . . treats all of Hesse's major works, his early work, his most popular work, and his minor works. Recommended.
*CHOICE*

[O]utstandingly edited. . . . [T]he book does justice to Hesse's transcultural work . . . [It] asks questions, answers them, opens new perspectives, and emphasizes and newly formulates well-known positions: different opinions are allowed. Not only in terms of content but in terms of language this (English-language) volume opens itself to an international readership.
*MONATSHEFTE*