Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 261 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 544 g
A Critical History
Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 261 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 544 g
Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
ISBN: 978-1-57113-153-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
The interpretation of the works of Friedrich Schiller, with Goethe one of the co-founders of German classicism, has long been a central concern of German critics. In a country known as 'the land of poets and thinkers,' the achievements of great writers have been a matter of national pride and identity. But special problems are raised by Schiller, whose dramas address political questions more directly than those of his fellow-classicist Goethe, yet tend toend in a manner that shifts the focus to a general moral or metaphysical level, leaving politically engaged readers dissatisfied. The reception of Schiller's works is thus not only a topic in the history of criticism, but forms achapter in the history of German political and national consciousness. Given this situation, Professor Pugh's study of the plays' fortunes at the hands of the various schools of German literary scholarship is useful both to literary scholars seeking orientation in the field and also to readers with a wider interest in German intellectual traditions.
David V. Pugh is associate professor in the Department of German, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and is the author of Dialectic of Love: Platonism in Schiller's Aesthetics.
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Introduction
The Neoclassical Establishment: The Contemporary Reception
Romantics, Liberals, Hegelians, Positivists: The Nineteenth Century
The Age of Geistesgeschichte: 1905-45
Chiller Scholarship since 1945
Die Räuber: A Political Play?
Fiesco: The
Kabale und Liebe: The Domestic Tragedy
Don Carlos: The Drama of Freedom
Conclusion