Richard Exner Papers ca. 1950-1990

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Richard Exner Papers ca. 1950-1990

The collection contains bio-bibliographic files; correspondence; lectures, readings, and performances; research; UCSB and some Oberlin academic files; and writing files of UCSB German literature professor Richard Exner.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6652959

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Exner, Richard

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Exner, translator, critic, essayist, poet and UCSB faculty member for 25 years, retired in 1991. He is an acknowledged expert on Hugo von Hofmannstal, Austrian poet, dramatist and essayist. From the description of Richard Exner papers, 1950-1991. (University of California, Santa Barbara). WorldCat record id: 213885137 Biography Richard Exner is a Professor Emeritus of German Literature, specializing in Hugo von Hofmannsth...

Hofmannsthal, Hugo ˜vonœ 1874-1929

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal was a German author, known as perhaps the most important Austrian writer of his era. Born in Vienna to prosperous Jewish parents, he was educated by private tutors and studied law and philology at the University of Vienna. He showed a precocious gift for poetry, and became equally prolific writing drama, fiction, and essays. He was influenced by the Symbolist tradition, and his work was self-consciously aesthetic, but his writing was always infused with his concern for harm...