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Book Synopsis The Broken Jug by : Heinrich von Kleist
Download or read book The Broken Jug written by Heinrich von Kleist and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy that mocks the failings of human nature and the judicial system in a forgiving way.
Book Synopsis Kleist's Aristocratic Heritage and Das Käthchen von Heilbronn by : William C. Reeve
Download or read book Kleist's Aristocratic Heritage and Das Käthchen von Heilbronn written by William C. Reeve and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1991-09-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kleist was an important dramatist at the beginning of the nineteenth century and Käthchen was one of his greatest stage successes. Reeve presents a brief outline of the Kleist family involvement in the Prussian aristocracy and Kleist's reactions to his background. He also surveys the literary critics' attempts to come to terms with Käthchen, noting a revisionist trend which associates Kleist with the bourgeois liberalism of his time. While acknowledging the influence of the German Enlightenment, Reeve argues that the most significant influence on Kleist was his noble heritage. Reeve's close textual analysis of Das Käthchen von Heilbronn uses the model of the aristocrat which draws upon Nietzsche's Was ist vornehm? and the works of Anthony Ludovici, John H. Kautsky, and others, a model which has remained virtually unchanged since the Middle Ages. Reeve examines Kleist's use of symbolic and descriptive names in Käthchen, showing how they emphasize his ties to the aristocratic, and compares Kleist's drama to two other plays featuring socially forbidden love, Friedrich Schiller's Kabale und Liebe and Friedrich Hebbel's Agnes Bernauer. Despite his efforts to the contrary, Heinrich von Kleist was unable to ignore or deny his aristocratic heritage. It left an indelible mark on his works, especially, as Reeve demonstrates, Das Käthchen von Heilbronn.
Book Synopsis The Major Works of Heinrich Von Kleist by : Robert E. Helbling
Download or read book The Major Works of Heinrich Von Kleist written by Robert E. Helbling and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1975 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightmare--a politically explosive murder trial in the middle of the Vietnam War.
Book Synopsis Laughter, Comedy and Aesthetics: Kleist's'Der Zerbrochne Krug'. - (Durham): University of Durham 1989. 87 S. 8° by : Mark G. Ward
Download or read book Laughter, Comedy and Aesthetics: Kleist's'Der Zerbrochne Krug'. - (Durham): University of Durham 1989. 87 S. 8° written by Mark G. Ward and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Trials and Tribunals in the Dramas of Heinrich Von Kleist by : Kim Fordham
Download or read book Trials and Tribunals in the Dramas of Heinrich Von Kleist written by Kim Fordham and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes the trial so appealing as dramatic form? Why do we watch? Is it simply the quest for truth and justice? Or is it much more than that? From the time of Sophocles, the court has fascinated audiences and dramatists alike. Kleist is no exception, as each of his dramas and many of his stories and anecdotes contain a trial of some sort from its most primitive form of hand-to-hand combat in the duel to more conventional legal proceedings in secular, military and ecclesiastical courts. At trial, we desire, whether consciously or unconsciously, to have our own system of beliefs and behaviours affirmed rather than to attempt to achieve justice: self-interest prevails at the expense of truth and equity. The focus of this book is the tension between the restoration of dikê, the balance of natural order, and the pursuit of truth and justice as impetus behind the trial. With recourse to the concept of legal instrumentalism, which underscores this preference for order over justice in both the law and literature, the author examines Kleist's dramas to determine the extent to which those individuals in positions of power are able to manipulate the proceedings, seeking not justice and truth, but rather the validation of their own particular version of order. The trial, a tool generally thought to be designed to discover truth and to mete out justice, is used instead, in the hands of the powerful, as an instrument of control and degradation.
Book Synopsis Heinrich von Kleist: Style and Concept by : Dieter Sevin
Download or read book Heinrich von Kleist: Style and Concept written by Dieter Sevin and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of Heinrich von Kleist unfolds between precise depictions and moral extremes. Crystallized in words, his characters appear as paradigms of human fallibility. Their passions and obsessions, their inadequacies and longings are captured in a writing style that reveals its influence even in novels and plays of the twentieth century. This volume takes the literary reception of Kleist as one of its focal points and, furthermore, considers the author's oeuvre and his life on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his death.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L by : O. Classe
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L written by O. Classe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kleist on Stage, 1804-1987 by : William C. Reeve
Download or read book Kleist on Stage, 1804-1987 written by William C. Reeve and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now, there has been no general reference work that describes the various stagings of Kleist's plays since the first performance of Die Familie Schroffenstein in 1804. Several dissertations dealing with the stage history of individual works appeared between 1920 and 1932 and some articles discussing influential individual productions have been published. In Kleist on Stage, 1804 1987, however, William Reeve has used the reviews of newspaper critics during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to provide the first general survey of the reception of Kleist's seven completed dramas.
Book Synopsis German-language Comedy by : Bert Cardullo
Download or read book German-language Comedy written by Bert Cardullo and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English collection of the greatest comedies written in German from the late-eighteenth to the late-nineteenth centuries. Each of the translated comedies is placed in historical context and in relationship to its author's life as well as his other plays, and each is followed by a select bibliography of English-language criticism and interpretation.
Book Synopsis Opera Companies and Houses of Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand by : Karyl Lynn Zietz
Download or read book Opera Companies and Houses of Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand written by Karyl Lynn Zietz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although books have been written about various opera houses throughout the world, no one work has covered more than a relatively small number of the larger, well known companies and houses, and none have made more than brief mention of the smaller houses. No book has comprehensively listed opera repertories. Little, in sum, has been written about any of the smaller companies and houses located in non-English-speaking countries. This is the most comprehensive reference book ever written on opera companies and houses in Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand--over 300, from the well known to the smaller. Each entry includes a history of the opera house or company, the works (title and composer) and type of productions offered, company staff, world and country premieres, repertory, and practical information on the theater's address, nearby hotel accommodations and how to order tickets. Most entries conclude with a bibliography.
Download or read book Bertolt Brecht written by Steve Giles and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of this volume of essays marks the centenary of the birth of Bertolt Brecht on 10 February 1898. The essays were commissioned from scholars and critics around the world, and cover six main areas: recent biographical controversies; neglected theoretical writings; the semiotics of Brechtian theatre; new readings of classic texts; Brecht's role and reception in the GDR; and contemporary appropriations of Brecht's work. This volume will be essential reading for all those interested in twentieth century theatre, modern German studies, and the contemporary reassessment of post-war culture in the wake of German unification and the collapse of Stalinist communism in Central and Eastern Europe. The essays in this volume also address a variety of general questions, concerning - for example - authorship and textuality; the nature of Brecht's Marxism in relation to his understanding of modernity, science and Enlightenment reason; Marxist aesthetics; radical cultural politics; and feminist performance theory.
Book Synopsis The First German Theatre (Routledge Revivals) by : Michael Patterson
Download or read book The First German Theatre (Routledge Revivals) written by Michael Patterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990. The book surveys of the development of German theatre from a market sideshow into an important element of cultural life and political expression. It examines Schiller as ‘theatre poet’ at Mannheim, Goethe’s work as director of the court theatre at Weimar, and then traces the rapid commercial decline that made it difficult for Kleist and impossible for Büchner to see their plays staged in their own lifetime. Four representative texts are analysed: Schiller’s The Robbers, Goethe’s Iphigenia on Tauris, Kleist’s The Prince of Homburg, and Büchner’s Woyzeck. This title will be of interest to students of theatre and German literature.
Book Synopsis Art in History/History in Art by : David Freedberg
Download or read book Art in History/History in Art written by David Freedberg and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1996-07-11 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians and art historians provide a critique of existing methodologies and an interdisciplinary inquiry into seventeenth-century Dutch art and culture.
Download or read book Foreign Words written by Susan Bernofsky and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new perspective on the principal developments in translation practice and theory in Germany during the Age of Goethe with emphasis on the work of Goethe, Holderlin, and Kleist as translators.
Book Synopsis Persistence of Folly by : Joel B. Lande
Download or read book Persistence of Folly written by Joel B. Lande and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joel B. Lande’s Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted account of the origins of German theater by focusing on the misunderstood figure of the fool, whose spontaneous and impish jest captivated audiences, critics, and playwrights from the late sixteenth through the early nineteenth century. Lande radically expands the scope of literary historical inquiry, showing that the fool was not a distraction from attempts to establish a serious dramatic tradition in the German language. Instead, the fool was both a fixture on the stage and a nearly ubiquitous theme in an array of literary critical, governmental, moral-philosophical, and medical discourses, figuring centrally in broad-based efforts to assign laughter a proper time, place, and proportion in society. Persistence of Folly reveals the fool as a cornerstone of the dynamic process that culminated in the works of Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist. By reorienting the history of German theater, Lande’s work conclusively shows that the highpoint of German literature around 1800 did not eliminate irreverent jest in the name of serious drama, but instead developed highly refined techniques for integrating the comic tradition of the stage fool.
Book Synopsis Selected Essays on Intermediality by Werner Wolf (1992–2014) by : Werner Wolf
Download or read book Selected Essays on Intermediality by Werner Wolf (1992–2014) written by Werner Wolf and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects twenty-two major essays by Werner Wolf published between 1992 and 2014, all of them revised but retaining the original argument. They form the core of those seminal writings which have contributed to establishing 'intermediality' as an internationally recognized research field, besides providing a by now widely accepted typology of the field and opening intermedial perspectives on areas as varied as narratology, metareferentiality and iconicity. The essays are presented chronologically under the headings of “Theory and Typology”, “Literature–Music Relations”, “Transmedial Narratology”, and “Miscellaneous Transmedial Phenomena” and cover a wide spectrum of topics of both historical and contemporary relevance, ranging from J.S. Bach, Mozart, Schubert and Gulda through Sterne, Hardy, Woolf and Beckett to Jan Steen, Hogarth, Magritte and comics. The volume should be essential reading for scholars of literature, music and art history with an interdisciplinary orientation as well as general readers interested in the fascinating interaction of the arts.
Book Synopsis A Student Grammar of German by : Paul Stocker
Download or read book A Student Grammar of German written by Paul Stocker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear and jargon-free student reference guide to the grammar of German.
