Schiller's wound : the theater of trauma from crisis to commodity / Stephanie Hammer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammer, Stephanie Barbé.

Series:

Kritik (Detroit, Mich.)

Kritik

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805--Criticism and interpretation.

Schiller, Friedrich.

Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

172 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2001]

Summary:

One of the founders of German national literature, Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was that country's most important neoclassical playwrights. In Schiller's Wound, Stephanie Hammer shows that Schiller was also one of the first self-conscious explorers of psychological trauma in the theater.

In a provocative reading of Schiller, Hammer re-envisions him as a psychologically tormented artist and argues for his pivotal role in the developing relationship between pain, spectacle, and capital in modern Anglo-European drama, literature, and film. Each chapter offers an in-depth reading of one of Schiller's plays: The Robbers, Don Carlos, the Wallenstein trilogy, The Bride of Messina, and the fragment Demetrius, all of which mark important moments of crisis in Schiller's career.

Contents:

Introduction: Schiller and Trauma 13

1. My Villain, My Self: Melodrama, Laughter, and Abjection in The Robbers 27

2. Piles: Unblocking Don Carlos and Schiller's Passage to Weimar 51

3. War Photo/graphs: Pictures, Time, and the Aesthetics of Trauma in Wallenstein 71

4. The Picture Palace of Dr. Schiller: Classicism, Commerce, and Silence in The Bride of Messina 105

5. Unfinished Business: Trauma, Mother, and Acquisition in Demetrius 133.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-170) and index.

ISBN:

0814328628

OCLC:

44713100