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...Arthur Burkhard, assistant professor of German, will deliver a lecture on "The German Stage Today," at 8.15 o'clock this evening in the Conant Hall Common Room. All members of the University are welcome at this meeting of the Modern Language Conference...
Professor Burkhard has proceeded in his study of Meyer from periphery to center, from the style to the man, and offers his solution of Meyer's complexity in "the principle of polarity", which he sees evidenced through the whole extent of the writer's work. Previous Meyer-Investigators, notably Brecht, d'Harcourt, and Faesi, have arrived rather by deductive means, at conclusions suggesting this, for example Faesi's statement that artistic creations may be either image or counterpart of their creator; but no scholar hitherto has advanced so logically from detail to totality, and none has formulated as precisely this...
...conclusions which Professor Burkhard derives concerning Meyer, and sets forth in the chapters "The Principle of Polarity" and "The Attainment of Form", are based on an exhaustive study of the writer's productions, that is not inferior in throughness to the best German treatments of the subject. Each of Meyer's works has been carefully analyzed, both quantatively and qualitatively, with the intent of determining the degree to which they express his often-quoted purpose of creating "grand style, grand art", and of conjuring up plastically tangible figures". Almost two-thirds of this book is devoted to these topics...
...publication of three new books, two by men now connected with Harvard, was announced yesterday by the University Press. For every student of German literature, the new book by Arthur Burkhard assistant professor of German entitled: "Conrad Ferdinand Meyer" is particularly important...
...Contemporary German Literature," Professor Burkhard, Germanic Museum...