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Who is This Schiller Now?
Jeffrey High
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Description for Who is This Schiller Now?
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New essays by top international Schiller scholars on the reception of the great German writer and dramatist, emphasizing his realist aspects. The works of Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) -- an innovative and resonant tragedian and an important poet, essayist, historian, and aesthetic theorist -- are among the best known of German and world literature. Schiller's explosive original artistry and feel for timely and enduring personal tragedy embedded in timeless sociohistorical conflicts remain the topic of lively academic debate. The essays in this volume address the many flashpoints and canonicalshifts in the cyclically polarized reception of Schiller and his works, in ... Read more
New essays by top international Schiller scholars on the reception of the great German writer and dramatist, emphasizing his realist aspects. The works of Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) -- an innovative and resonant tragedian and an important poet, essayist, historian, and aesthetic theorist -- are among the best known of German and world literature. Schiller's explosive original artistry and feel for timely and enduring personal tragedy embedded in timeless sociohistorical conflicts remain the topic of lively academic debate. The essays in this volume address the many flashpoints and canonicalshifts in the cyclically polarized reception of Schiller and his works, in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571134882
SKU
V9781571134882
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About Jeffrey High
JEFFREY L. HIGH is Professor of German Studies at California State University, Long Beach BERND FISCHER is Emeritus Academy Professor at the Ohio State University. ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. GAIL K. HART is Professor Emerita of German at the University of California, Irvine. JEFFREY L. SAMMONS is Professor Emeritus, Yale University JEFFREY ... Read more
Reviews for Who is This Schiller Now?
[D]emands attention not least for the great variety of approaches chosen by its well-qualified contributors, all of whom share the common aim of liberating Schiller from his traditional role as the junior member of the Weimar partnership. . . . [T]he bulk of the constituent material gives us a Schiller still vibrantly alive
now, and in the foreseeable future. ... Read more
now, and in the foreseeable future. ... Read more