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Author : Joshua Billings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Germany
ISBN : OCLC:863585640
Author : Miriam Leonard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674286948
Under the microscope of recent scholarship the universality of Greek tragedy has started to fade, as particularities of Athenian culture have come into focus. Miriam Leonard contests the idea of the death of tragedy and argues powerfully for the continued vitality and viability of Greek tragic theater in the central debates of contemporary culture.
Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199651634
This volume explores performances of Greek tragedies in Germany since 1800 as responses to particular political, social and cultural milestones, shedding light on how, in a constantly changing political and cultural climate, they influenced the evolving cultural identity of the educated middle class over that period
Author : Ruth J. Owen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443845069
Detached from Shakespeare’s English, Hamlet has been rewritten numerous times in European languages, the various translations into any one language jostling with each other for dominance and spawning new Hamlets that depart decisively from Shakespeare as a source. This book focuses on the rich tradition of drawing from Hamlet in European cultures to produce new, independent works, which include Hamlet theatre, Hamlet ballet, Hamlet poetry, Hamlet fiction, Hamlet essays and Hamlet films. It examines how the myth of Hamlet has crossed back and forth over Europe’s linguistic borders for four hundred years, repeatedly reinvigorated by being bent to specific geo-political and cultural locations. The enquiries in this book show how, in the process of translation, adaptation and reinventing, Hamlet has become the common cultural currency of Europe.
Author : Joshua Billings
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691176369
Why did Greek tragedy and "the tragic" come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity? And how has this belief affected modern understandings of Greek drama? In Genealogy of the Tragic, Joshua Billings answers these and related questions by tracing the emergence of the modern theory of the tragic, which was first developed around 1800 by thinkers associated with German Idealism. The book argues that the idea of the tragic arose in response to a new consciousness of history in the late eighteenth century, which spurred theorists to see Greek tragedy as both a unique, historically remote form and a timeless literary genre full of meaning for the present. The book offers a new interpretation of the theories of Schiller, Schelling, Hegel, Hölderlin, and others, as mediations between these historicizing and universalizing impulses, and shows the roots of their approaches in earlier discussions of Greek tragedy in Germany, France, and England. By examining eighteenth-century readings of tragedy and the interactions between idealist thinkers in detail, Genealogy of the Tragic offers the most comprehensive historical account of the tragic to date, as well as the fullest explanation of why and how the idea was used to make sense of modernity. The book argues that idealist theories remain fundamental to contemporary interpretations of Greek tragedy, and calls for a renewed engagement with philosophical questions in criticism of tragedy.
Author : Roger Paulin
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800642157
From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin’s groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty years. The work represents his major research interests of Romanticism and the reception of Shakespeare in Germany, but also explores a broader range of themes, from poetry and the public memorialization of poets to fairy stories - all meticulously researched, yet highly accessible. As a comprehensive examination of German literary history in the period 1700-1900, the collection not only includes accounts of the lives and work of Goethe, Schiller, the Schlegels, and Gundolf (amongst others), serving to nuance our understanding of these figures in history, but also considers diverse (and often underexplored) topics, from academic freedom to the rise of travel literature. The essays have been reformulated, corrected, and updated to add references to recent works. However, the core foundations of the originals remain, and just as when they were first published, the value of these essays – to researchers, students, and all those who are interested in German literary history – cannot be overstated.
Author : Mitchell Greenberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350155091
The period covered by this volume in the Cultural History of Tragedy set is bookended by two shockingly similar historical events: the beheading of a king, Charles I of England in 1649 and Louis XIV of France in 1793. The period between these two dates saw enormous political, social and economic changes that altered European society's cultural life. Tragedy, which had dominated the European stage at the beginning of this period, gradually saw itself replaced by new literary forms, culminating in the gradual decline of theatrical tragedy from the heights it had reached in the 1660s. The dominance of France's military and cultural prestige during this period is reflected in the important, almost exclusive, space dedicated in this volume to the French stage. This book covers the tragedies of France's two greatest playwrights - Pierre Corneille (1606-84) and Jean Racine (1639-99) - which would dominate not only the French stage but, through translations and adaptations, became the model of tragic theater across Europe, finding imitators in England (Dryden), Italy (Alfieri) and as far afield as Russia. This dominance continued well into the 18th century with the triumph of Voltaire's tragedies. This volume also examines how the writings of Diderot and Lessing changed the direction of theatre and how after the Revolution, in the writings of Goethe, Shiller, Hegel, tragedy and the tragic were reimagined and became the sign of European modernity. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
Author : Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748626793
Modern European Criticism and Theory offers the reader a comprehensive critical overview of the widespread and profound contest of ideas within European 'theory'. The book focuses primarily on the thought of major voices in poetics, philosophy, linguistics, and psychoanalysis, as well as in literary and cultural studies from the Enlightenment to the present day. Examining how conceptions of subjectivity, identity and gender have been questioned, the more than 50 essays written by acknowledged experts in their fields critically assess the ways in which we think, see, and act in the world, as well as the ways in which we represent such thought psychologically, politically, and culturally. A further reading list accompanies each chapter.
Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789604733
The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar stage-form of royal martyr dramas called Trauerspiel. Benjamin also comments on the engravings of Durer and the theatre of Calderon and Shakespeare. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history. Georg Lukacs, an opponent of Benjamin's aesthetics, singled out The Origin of German Tragic Drama as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century.
Author : Bernd Fischer
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Literature
ISBN : 9783038423942
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Transcultural Literary Studies: Politics, Theory, and Literary Analysis" that was published in Humanities
Author : Birgit Tautz
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271080512
In Translating the World, Birgit Tautz provides a new narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Departing from dominant modes of thought regarding the nexus of literary and national imagination, she examines this intersection through the lens of Germany’s emerging global networks and how they were rendered in two very different German cities: Hamburg and Weimar. German literary history has tended to employ a conceptual framework that emphasizes the nation or idealized citizenry, yet the experiences of readers in eighteenth-century German cities existed within the context of their local environments, in which daily life occurred and writers such as Lessing, Schiller, and Goethe worked. Hamburg, a flourishing literary city in the late eighteenth century, was eventually relegated to the margins of German historiography, while Weimar, then a small town with an insular worldview, would become mythologized for not only its literary history but its centrality in national German culture. By interrogating the histories of and texts associated with these cities, Tautz shows how literary styles and genres are born of local, rather than national, interaction with the world. Her examination of how texts intersect and interact reveals how they shape and transform the urban cultural landscape as they are translated and move throughout the world. A fresh, elegant exploration of literary translation, discursive shifts, and global cultural changes, Translating the World is an exciting new story of eighteenth-century German culture and its relationship to expanding global networks that will especially interest scholars of comparative literature, German studies, and literary history.
Author : Efraim Podoksik
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004416840
Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany, edited by Efraim Podoksik, examines the ways in which the humanities were practised by German thinkers and scholars in the long nineteenth century and the relevance of those practices for the humanities today.
Author : Michael Stolleis
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1571810579
He argues that the concept of family resemblances, as that concept has been refined and extended in prototype theory in the contemporary cognitive sciences, is the most plausible analytical strategy for resolving the central problem of the book. In the solution proposed, religion is conceptualized as an affair of "more or less" rather than a matter of "yes or no," and no sharp line is drawn between religion and non-religion."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Joshua Billings,Miriam Leonard
Publisher : Classical Presences
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198727798
This volume considers the relationship between Greek tragedy and philosophy in the context of the ancient Greek works themselves, suggesting that the tradition of philosophical thought concerning tragedy has a major place in understandings both of ancient tragedy and of modernity itself.
Author : Dennis J. Schmidt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253338689
Tracing the efforts of philosophers to appropriate the issues opened up by tragedy as a literary form, Dennis Schmidt makes the argument that in the struggle to come to terms with the issues raised by tragedy, new and progressive avenues for addressing the questions of ethic life have come to the fore.