Departing from Nietzsche's revolutionary reinterpretation of Greek civilization, the study analyzes the creative transformation of Greek tragedy, as the canonic model of Western theatre, by a wide range of European and American dramatists (Hofmannsthal, Jahnn, Hauptmann and Brecht; Cocteau, Gide, Giraudoux, Anouilh and Sartre; Jeffers, O'Neill, Eliot, among others). Detailed interpretations (juxtaposing modern versions, their Greek 'pre-texts' and 17/18th century variants) are intertwined with theoretical evaluations from an intertextual and cultural-historical perspective, to assess the possibility and meaning of tragedy within the realm of secular modernism.

Klaus-Detlef MA1/4ller's studies represent a consistent literary history of the modern age between the Baroque and the present, centering on two pillars of enlightenment discourse: criticism and dialogue. The articles assembled here are responses to Klaus-Detlef MA1/4ller's major research concerns: literature in the age of Goethe, realism, classical modernism, and issues posed by the theory of genre and media theory. As such, they reflect the broad historical, intermedial, and methodological range of MA1/4ller's interests, and his commitment to the ethos of enlightenment.

this historical-critical edition of the Baroque novel The Asian Banise fills a gap in research. Although the Banise was the most popular novel prior to Goethe s Werther, until now there have only been two reprints (long out-of-print) of non-authorized editions. Long overdue, this book is the historical-critical edition of the original first edition of 1689 and contains detailed commentaries."