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Who is this Schiller now? : essays on his reception and significance / edited by Jeffrey L. High, Nicholas Martin, and Norbert Oellers.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805--Appreciation.
- Schiller, Friedrich.
- Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805--Criticism and interpretation.
- Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2011.
- Language Note:
- In English and German.
- Summary:
- "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 canonical shifts in the cyclically polarized reception of Schiller and his works, in pursuit of historical and contemporary answers to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's expression of frightened admiration in 1794: "Who is this Schiller?" The responses demonstrate pronounced shifts from widespread twentieth-century understandings of Schiller: the overwhelming emphasis here is on Schiller the cosmopolitan realist, and little or no trace is left of the ultimately untenable view of Schiller as an abstract idealist who turned his back on politics"--Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1: Schiller, drama, and poetry
- pt. 2: Schiller, aesthetics, and philosophy
- pt. 3: Schiller, history, and politics
- pt. 4: Schiller reception, reception and Schiller
- pt. 5: Schiller now.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contributors include: Ehrhard Bahr, Matthew Bell, Frederick Burwick, Jennifer Driscoll Colosimo, Bernd Fischer, Gail K. Hart, Fritz Heuer, Hans H. Hiebel, Jeffrey L. High, Walter Hinderer, Paul E. Kerry, Erik B. Knoedler, Elisabeth Krimmer, Maria del Rosario Acosta López, Laura Anna Macor, Dennis F. Mahoney, Nicholas Martin, John A. McCarthy, Yvonne Nilges, Norbert Oellers, Peter Pabisch, David Pugh, T. J. Reed, Wolfgang Riedel, Jörg Robert, Ritchie Robertson, Jeffrey L. Sammons, Henrik Sponsel.
- ISBN:
- 9781571134882
- 1571134883
- OCLC:
- 657601462
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