The votive mass of the Holy Spirit in middle high German Literature / E. Egert -- Allegory and symbol in Hartmann's Gregorius / Rosemary Picozzi -- Opitz' Schäfferey von der Nimfen Hercinie in Seventeenth-Century literature / Ulrich Maché -- Poetic imagination and external reality in Tieck : From divergence to convergence / Raimund Belgardt -- The grotesque in Barlach's works : Towards an understanding of his world / Bernard R. Anderson -- Narrator and narrative in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften / Gerwin Marahrens -- Ferdinand Raimund's Gutenstein poem / Fred Kriigel -- The tailor and the sweeper : A new look at Wilhelm Raabe / Marketa Goetz Stankiewicz -- The professing Christian and the ironic humanist : A comment on the relationship of Alfred Döblin and Thomas Mann after 1933 / Anthony W. Riley -- Myth and morality : Reflections on Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus / Leslie L. Miller -- Das Gestische and the poetry of Brecht / Gordon L. Tracy -- Observations on Otto Flake / Hermann Boeschenstein.