Modern Drama and German Classicism: Renaissance from Lessing to Brecht - Softcover

Modern Drama and German Classicism: Renaissance from Lessing to Brecht.

Original softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 359 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean. - Contents: Introduction -- 1. Prinz Friedrich von Homburg: Theory in Practice -- 2. Lessing and the Problem of Drama -- 3. Nathan der Weise: Breakthrough in Practice -- 4. Iphigenie auf Tauris and Goethe's Idea of Drama -- 5. Egmont and the Maelstrom of the Self -- 6. The Importance of Being Egmont -- 7. Schiller's Theoretical Impasse and Maria Stuart -- 8. Breakthrough in Theory: The Philosophical Background of Modern Drama -- 9. The Assault upon the Audience: Types of Modern Drama -- 10. The Classic Modern: Brecht. - The discussion of "movements," as applied to German literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, has produced much disagreement, for which there are obvious reasons. The concept of a movement by nature fails to account for the uniqueness of any particular work. When a critic becomes excited about the work or author he is submerged in, therefore, part of his excitement, part of the feeling that his text has afforded him a glimpse of the true and universal, tends to relieve itself as resentment against the coolness of the literary historian who appears merely to classifysay, Faust as a "Romantic drama," or Stiffer as a "Biedermeier" figure. Thus a typically unresolvable scholarly dispute about definitions is born. If we consider, in addition, that the historical discussion of German literature from the late eighteenth century on involves not only the difficult idea of Romanticism but also an idea of "Classicism" based mainly on a selection from the work of only two authors, Goethe and Schiller, then we need look no further for sources of terminological discomfort. There is, however, at least one other important reason for this discomfort. The terms customarily used to describe movements in German literature of the last two centuries do not give an adequate sense for the development of drama. ISBN 9780801493911 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 355. Artikel-Nr. 1171686

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