Palms and odalisques -- Three dramatists: Franz Grillparzer: the conservative vision ; Friedrich Hebbel: in search of the absolute ; Georg Büchner: potsherds of experience ; A note on Johann Nestroy -- Heinrich Heine's contentious muse -- Eduard Mörike: recollection and inwardness -- Adalbert Stifter: 'Ehrebung without motion' -- Gottfried Keller: realism and fairy-tale -- Wilhelm Raabe: home and abroad -- Theodor Fontane: the realism of assessment -- Fiction and the immutable self -- Friedrich Nietzsche: the birth of a myth?
