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New essays tracing the 18th-century literary revival in
German-speaking lands and the cultural developments that
accompanied it. The Enlightenment was based on the use of reason,
common sense, and "natural law," and was paralleled by an emphasis
on feelings and the emotions in religious, especially Pietist
circles. Progressive thinkers in England, France, and later in
Germany began to assail the absolutism of the state and the
orthodoxy of the Church; in Germany the line led from Leibniz,
Thomasius, and Wolff to Lessing and Kant, and eventually to the
rise of an educated upper middle class. Literary developments
encompassed the emergence of a national theater, literature, and a
common literary language. This became possible in part because of
advances in literacy and education, especially among bourgeois
women, and the reorganization of book production and the book
market. This major new reference work provides a fresh look at the
major literary figures, works, and cultural developments from
around 1700 up to the late Enlightenment.They trace the
18th-century literary revival in German-speaking countries: from
occasional and learned literature under the influence of French
Neoclassicism to the establishment of a new German drama, religious
epic and secular poetry, and the sentimentalist novel of
self-fashioning. The volume includes the new, stimulating works of
women, a chapter on music and literature, chapters on literary
developments in Switzerland and in Austria, and a chapter
onreactions to the Enlightenment from the 19th century to the
present. The recent revaluing of cultural and social phenomena
affecting literary texts informs the presentations in the
individual chapters and allows for the inclusionof hitherto
neglected but important texts such as essays, travelogues,
philosophical texts, and letters. Contributors: Kai Hammermeister,
Katherine Goodman, Helga Brandes, Rosmarie Zeller, Kevin Hilliard,
Francis Lamport, Sarah Colvin, Anna Richards, Franz M. Eybl, W.
Daniel Wilson, Robert Holub. Barbara Becker-Cantarino is Research
Professor in German at the Ohio State University.
This historical and critical survey of German drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries provides an introduction to major authors and works from Lessing, through Goethe, Schiller and Weimar Classicism, to Kleist, Grillparzer and Hebbel. F.J. Lamport traces the rise and development in the German-speaking world of the last form of "classical" poetic drama to appear in European literature. This development is seen as reflecting the intellectual and political ferment both within Germany and throughout Europe.
New translations of Schiller's literary prose works, accompanied by
fresh critical essays. Friedrich Schiller was a dramatist and poet
for the ages, an important aesthetic theorist, and among Germany's
first historians. But he left few works of literary prose behind --
seven short tales and fragments, almost all from early in his
career -- and although they include some of his most resonant in
his own time, they are largely overlooked today. Several of the
pieces -- which include The Ghost-Seer, A Magnanimous Act from Most
Recent History, TheCriminal of Lost Honor: A True Story, A Curious
Example of Female Vengeance, Duke Alba at Breakfast at Castle
Rudolstadt, Play of Fate: A Fragment of a True Story, and
Haoh-Kioeh-Tschuen -- have never before appeared inEnglish
translation. But they are a seminal link in the evolution of the
then-nascent German novella. They exhibit the anthropological
curiosity and moral confusion that made Schiller's first drama, The
Robbers, a sensation, demonstrating an original artistry that
justifies consideration of scholars and students today, on the eve
of the 250th anniversary of his birth. New translations of the
seven works appear here together with introductory critical essays.
Contributors: Jeffrey L. High, Nicholas Martin, Otto W. Johnston,
Gail K. Hart, Dennis F. Mahoney; Translators: Francis Lamport, Ian
Codding, Jeffrey L. High, Ellis Dye, Edward T. Larkin, Carrie Ann
Collenberg Jeffrey L. High is Associate Professor at California
State University Long Beach.
Carefully focused essays on major aspects of one of the most
significant German literary movements, the Storm and Stress. Sturm
und Drang refers to a set of values and a style of writing that
arose in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century, a
particularly intense kind of pre-Romanticism that has often been
represented as marking the beginning of an independent modern
German culture. The circle of writers around the young Goethe,
including Herder, Lenz, Klinger, and later Schiller, felt
frustrated by the Enlightenment world of reason, balance, and
control, and turned instead to nature as the source of authentic
experience. Inspired by Rousseau and Herder, by Shakespeare, and by
folk culture, they rebelled against propriety and experimented with
new literary forms, their creative energy bursting through
conventions that seemed staid and artificial. The Sturm und Drang
has often been cited by those attempting to legitimate nationalism
and irrationalism, but scholars have more recently emphasized the
diversity of the movement and the links between it and the
Enlightenment. This volume of essays by leading scholars from the
UK, the US, and Germany illuminates the guiding ideas of the
movement, discussing its most important authors, texts, and ideas,
and taking account of the variety and complexity of the movement,
placing it more securely within late-eighteenth-century European
history. The main focus is on literature, and in particular on the
drama, which was of special importance to the Sturm und Drang.
However, the essays also outline the social conditions that gave
rise to the movement, and consideration is given to different
currents of ideas that underlie the movement, including areas of
thought and bodies of work that traditional approaches have tended
to marginalize. Contributors: Bruce Duncan, Howard Gaskill, Wulf
Koepke, Susanne Kord, Frank Lamport, Alan Leidner, Matthias
Luserke, Michael Patterson, Gerhard Sauder, Margaret Stoljar,
Daniel Wilson, Karin Wurst. David Hill is a Senior Lecturer in the
Department of German Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.
This completely new edition reproduces the original unexpurgated
'Schauspiel', and provides and Introdution and Notes fully geared
to the needs of modern students.
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