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Understands Nietzsche in the light of his activity as a creative
writer from his juvenilia through the publication of The Birth of
Tragedy, providing the first extensive study in English of his
early literary works. The name Friedrich Nietzsche resonates around
the world. Although known primarily as a philosopher, Nietzsche
began his writing career while still a boy with literary texts:
poetry, prose, and dramas. The present book is the first extensive
study in English of these early literary works. It understands
Nietzsche in the light of his activity as a creative writer from
his juvenilia through his first two years as professor of classical
philology at the University of Basel, that is, through the 1872
publication of his first major work, The Birth of Tragedy Out of
the Spirit of Music. Knowledge of Nietzsche's early literary
writings further underscores the value of The Birth of Tragedy as a
work of world literature. The present study makes available almost
all of Nietzsche's early poetry and extensive excerpts from his
early prose works and dramas - much of it in English for the first
time - along with commentary. A final, extensive chapter on The
Birth of Tragedy treats it as the culmination of the early literary
works. The book contains many new insights into Nietzsche and his
work and essential source material for future research. All
quotations from Nietzsche are given in both the original German and
in English.
New essays providing a in-depth view of the many facets of the
great world poet's work. Friedrich Schiller is not merely one of
Germany's foremost poets. He is also one of the major German
contributors to world literature. The undying words he gave to
characters such as Marquis Posa in Don Carlos and Wilhelm Tell in
the eponymous drama continue to underscore the need for human
freedom. Schiller cultivated hope in the actualization of moral
knowledge through aesthetic education and critical reflection,
leading to his ideal of a more humane humanity. At the same time,
he was fully cognizant of the problems that attend various forms of
idealism. Yet for Schiller, ultimately, love remains the
gravitational center of the universe and of human existence, and
beyond life and death joy prevails. This collection of cutting-edge
essays by some of the world's leading Schiller experts constitutes
a milestone in scholarship. It includes in-depth discussions of the
writer's major dramatic and poeticworks, his essays on aesthetics,
and his activities as historian, anthropologist, and physiologist,
as well as of his relation to the ancients and of Schiller
reception in 20th-century Germany. Contributors: Steven
D.Martinson, Walter Hinderer, David Pugh, Otto Dann, Werner von
Stransky-Stranka-Greifenfels, J. M. van der Laan, Rolf-Peter Janz,
Lesley Sharpe, Norbert Oellers, Dieter Borchmeyer, Karl S. Guthke,
Wulf Koepke. Steven D.Martinson is Professor of German at the
University of Arizona.
This book introduces for the first time selected poetry, letters,
and other writings by the German writer Thomas Kunst (Leipzig) to
the English-speaking world. Given the many prestigious awards the
writer has received for his poetry and the originality of his
imaginative thinking, the Turkish-German writer Feridun Zaimoglu
rightly called Kunst a great poet. Through his immersion in the
poetry of Paul Celan, Georg Trakl, Nicolas Born, Thomas Brasch, and
several South and North American writers, Thomas Kunst has acquired
a distinctive voice and style that rival the most talented writers
in Germany today. Music animates his creative writing. What he
calls the instrumentation between music and language flows almost
effortlessly from his experiences in the world, shaping the
multifaceted textures of his writings. Readers will be struck by
the author's remarkable clarity of expression, precision,
directness, and authenticity. "A poem is a poem for me only when
the most ordinary things in it irritate me in the most intense
ways." Inner turbulence over the way things are, outer conflict,
and the awareness of the ultimate irresolvability of pressing
political concerns, everyday experience, knowledge of the classical
heritage, and acute aesthetic sensibility unite to provide a unique
and challenging reading experience.
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