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Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg has been one of the
most performed operas ever since its premier in 1868. It was
adopted as Germany's national operas ('Nationaloper'), not least
because of its historical coincidence with the unification of
Germany under Bismarck in 1871. The opera epitomizes themes of
Germanness, including what many regard as blatant anti-Semitic
imagery, and thus ideally suited the agenda of the Third Reich, or
so it seemed. Despite or perhaps because of the ease with which the
Nazis appropriated the work, it was selected as the first opera to
be performed when the Bayreuth festival re-opened after the War.The
first section of this volume, 'Performing Meistersinger, contains
three commissioned articles from internationally respected artists
- a conductor (Peter Schneider), a stage director (Harry Kupfer)
and a singer (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau), all experienced in the
performance of this unusually demanding 5-hour work. The second
section, 'Meistersinger and History', examines both the
representation of German history in the opera and the way the opera
has functioned in history through political appropriation and
staging practice. The third section, 'Representations', is the most
eclectic, exploring in the first place the problematic question of
genre from the perspective of a theatrical historian. The chronic
issue of Wagner's chief opponent, Eduard Hanslick, and his musical
and dramatic representation in the opera as Bessmesser, is then
addressed, as are gender issues, and Wagner's own utterances
concerning the opera. Contributors: Nicholas Vazsonyi, Peter
Schneider, Harry Kupfer, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Hans Rudolf
Vaget, Lutz Koepnick, David B.Dennis, Klaus Van Den Berg, Thomas S.
Grey, Lydia Goehr, Eva Rieger, Peter HAyng. Nicholas Vazsonyi is
Associate Professor of German, University of South Carolina
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Goethe Yearbook 12 (Hardcover)
Simon Richter; Contributions by Benjamin K Bennett, Christoph Schweitzer, Cyrus Hamlin, Dieter Borchmeyer, …
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Volume 12 is dedicated to founding editor Thomas P. Saine, and
includes essays on Goethe's novels, plays, and poems, the Ilmpark,
Bach, Ossian, Goethe reception, and Schiller. The Goethe Yearbook,
first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of
North America and is dedicated to North American Goethe
scholarship. It aims above all to encourage and publish original
English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and
other authors of the Goethezeit, while also welcoming contributions
from scholars around the world. The book review section seeks
likewise to evaluate a wide selection ofrecent publications on the
period, and is important for all scholars of 18th-century
literature. Volume 12 honors founding editor Thomas P. Saine with
contributions from prominent scholars such as Ehrhard Bahr,
Benjamin Bennett, Dieter Borchmeyer, Jane Brown, Jill Kowalik, Ruth
Kluger, Meredith Lee, John McCarthy, Jeff Sammons, Helmut
Schneider, Hans Vaget, and more. The volume includes essays on
Goethe's novels, plays, and poems, the Ilmpark, Bach, Ossian,
Goethe reception, and Schiller. Simon J. Richter is associate
professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of
Pennsylvania. Book review editor Martha B. Helfer is associate
professor of German at the University of Utah.
Sixteen new, carefully focused essays on the prose works of one of
the great writers of modernity. Thomas Mann is among the greatest
of German prose writers, and was the first German novelist to reach
a wide English-speaking readership since Goethe. Novels such as
Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and Doktor Faustus attest to his
mastery of subtle, distanced irony, while novellas such as Death in
Venice reveal him at the height of his mastery of language. In
addition to fresh insights about these best-known works of Mann,
this volume treats less-often-discussed works such as Joseph and
His Brothers, Lotte in Weimar, and Felix Krull, as well as his
political writings and essays. Mann himself was a paradox: his role
as family-father was both refuge and facade; his love of Germany
was matched by his contempt for its having embraced Hitler. While
in exile during the Nazi period, he functioned as the prime
representative of the "good" Germany in the fight against fascism,
and he has often been remembered this way in English-speaking
lands. But a new view of Mann is emerging half a century after his
death: a view of him as one of the great writers of a modernity
understood as extending into our 21st century. This volume provides
sixteen essays by American and European specialists. They
demonstrate the relevance of his writings for our time, making
particular use of the biographical material that is now available.
Contributors: Ehrhard Bahr, Manfred Dierks, Werner Frizen, Clayton
Koelb, Helmut Koopmann, Wolfgang Lederer, Hannelore Mundt, Peter
Putz, Jens Rieckmann, Hans Joachim Sandberg, Egon Schwarz, and Hans
Vaget. Herbert Lehnert is Research Professor, and Eva Wessell is
Lecturer in Humanities, both at the University of California,
Irvine.
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Erotic Poems (Paperback)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; Translated by David Luke; Introduction by Hans Rudolf Vaget
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`a world without love would be no world' Elegy II This bilingual
edition of Goethe's erotic poems contains the Roman Elegies (1789),
The Diary (1810), and a selection from the Venetian Epigrams of
1790. Editorial censorship has long obscured the true form and
content of the Elegies, which were inspired by Goethe's sexual
liberation in Italy and his love for the woman he took as his
unofficial wife on his return to Germany.They are here presented as
Goethe boldly conceived them together with the long-surpressed
narrative poem known as The Diary. Superficially the story of a
failed sexual adventure by a man of 60, at another level this is a
profound study of the psychology of desire and the nature of
fidelity, as well as being one of the most beautiful and
good-humoured poems in the German language. Completing the edition
is a selection from Goethe's more light-hearted and much censored
cycle of erotica, the Venetian Epigrams. David Luke's translations
do full justice to Goethe's aim of liberating German poetry and
restoring sexual love to its central position in human life. Hans
Vaget's fine introduction provides the background to these poems,
as well as showing some of the profound and little-known
connections between them. Johann Wolfgang Goethe was born in 1749,
the son of a well-to-do citizen of Frankfurt. In the early 1770's
he was the dominating figure of the German literary revival, his
tragic novel Werther bringing him international fame. In 1755 he
became a minister of state and director of the court theatre and in
the 1790's he and his younger contemporary Schiller were the joint
architects of Weimar Classicism, the central phase of German
literary culture. Faust, written at various stages of his life and
in a variety of styles, became a constantly enlarged repository of
his personal wisdom and his creative energies never ceased to take
new forms. In 1806 he married Christiane Vulpious, having lived
with her for eighteen years. He died in 1832. ABOUT THE SERIES: For
over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the
widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable
volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the
most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features,
including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful
notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further
study, and much more.
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Exil im Krieg 19391945 (German, Paperback)
Reinhard Andress, Hans Rudolf Vaget; Edited by (consulting) Wolfgang Rainer LA"cke; Contributions by Burcu Dogramaci, Florian Traussnig, …
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