Roy Pascal

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Roy Pascal (born February 28, 1904 in Aston, Birmingham , † August 24, 1980 ) was an English German scholar.

Life

Pascal attended King Edward's School in Birmingham. He studied at Cambridge University , where he was closely associated with the economist Maurice Dobb and was an active communist. From 1939 to 1969 he was Professor of German Studies in Birmingham.

He was married to Fania Polyanowski, who wrote a book about Ludwig Wittgenstein , with whom the couple was friends (Fania Polyanowski taught Wittgenstein in Russian). Pascal was also associated with George Thompson (1903-1987), who also studied at Cambridge and in 1936 became Professor of Greek at Birmingham University (Marxist interpretation of Greek dramas). During the Cold War he turned away from the Communist Party.

He dealt not only with literature (for example, the Sturm und Drang and a book about the German novel), but also with the social history of the Reformation, the revolution of 1848 in Germany and other topics related to Germany.

In 1960 he received the Shakespeare Prize and in 1965 a Goethe Medal . In 1970 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy .

literature

Fonts

  • The social basis of the German Reformation; Martin Luther and his times, London: Watts & Co. 1933
  • The Nazi Dictatorship 1934, Routledge 2010
  • as editor: Shakespeare in Germany, 1740-1815, Cambridge University Press 1937
  • Karl Marx; political foundations, Labor Monthly 1943
  • Germany: Way and wrong way, Berlin, Volk und Welt 1947
  • The German Revolution of 1848, London: Fore Publ. 1948
  • The German Novel: Studies, Manchester University Press 1956, Methuen 1965
  • German Sturm and Drang, Manchester University Press 1953, 1967
    • German edition: Der Sturm und Drang (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 335). Translated from the English by Dieter Zeitz and Kurt Mayer. 2nd Edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-33502-6 .
    • Italian edition: La poetica dello Strum and Drang 1957
  • The growth of modern Germany, New York: Russell and Russell, 1969
  • Design and truth in autobiography, London: Routledge 1960, 1985
    • German edition: The autobiography. Salary and shape, Kohlhammer 1982
  • German literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: renaissance, reformation, baroque; with a chapter on German painting by Hannah Priebsch Closs, London: Crescent 1968
  • From Naturalism to Expressionism, German literature and society 1880-1918, London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1973
  • The dual voice: free indirect speech and its functioning in the nineteenth-century European novel, Manchester University Press 1977
  • Culture and the division of labor: Three essays on literary culture in Germany, Department of German Studies, University of Warwick 1974
  • Brecht's misgivings, Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London 1978
  • Kafka's Narrators: A Study of His Stories and Sketches, Cambridge UP 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Pascal, Roy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Aston, Birmingham
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1980