CONTENTS
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PREFACE ix
I NATURALISM I
II THE DRAMATISTS OF NATURALISM 24
III HUMORISTS, SATIRISTS, SATANISTS AND
VISIONARIES 54
IV THE NOVEL OF NATURALISM AND DECA-
DENCE 75
V FROM BAHR TO DEHMEL 86
VI STEFAN GEORGE AND HIS CIRCLE 122
VII RILKE 159
VIII HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL 210
IX THE NEO-ROMANTIC AND AUSTRIAN
DRAMATISTS 228
X COSMIC IMPRESSIONISTS AND EPIC IN-
FINITIES 242
XI NEO-CLASSICISM 2JI
XII THE NOVEL OF IMPRESSIONISM 279
XIII THE WOMEN WRITERS )2I
XIV THE REGIONAL NOVEL 346
XV THE NOVEL OF EXPRESSIONISM 359
XVI EXOTIC LITERATURE AND THE COLONIAL
NOVEL 377
XVII THE HISTORICAL NOVEL 381
XVIII THE DRAMA OF EXPRESSIONISM 388
XIX PHASES OF LYRIC POETRY 417
XX THE LITERATURE OF RACE AND SOIL 427
XXI PHILOSOPHERS AND SOPHISTS 441
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