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Commitment and compassion : essays on Georg Büchner : festschrift for Gerhard P. Knapp / edited by Patrick Fortmann and Martha B. Helfer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 81.
- Amsterdam Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik ; 81, 2012
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commitment (Psychology).
- Compassion.
- Büchner, Georg, 1813-1837--Criticism and interpretation.
- Büchner, Georg.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The writer, scientist, philosopher, and radical democrat Georg Büchner (1813-1837) occupies a unique place in the cultural legacy of the German-speaking countries. Born into an epoch of inevitable, yet arrested historical transition, Büchner produced a small but exceptionally rich body of work. This collection of essays in English and in German considers the full spectrum of his writings, the political pamphlet Der Hessische Landbote , the dramas Danton’s Tod , Leonce und Lena , Woyzeck , and the fragmentary narrative Lenz , as well as the letters, the philosophical lectures on Descartes and Spinoza, and the scientific texts. The essays examine connections between these works, study texts in detail, debate ways of editing them, and trace their reception in contemporary literature and film. The novel readings presented here not only celebrate Büchner on the eve of his bicentenary birthday but also insert this untimely figure into discussions of the revolution-restoration dynamic and realism in poetics and politics.
- Contents:
- Preliminary material / Editors Commitment and Compassion
- Introduction: Georg Büchner’s Perpetual Contemporaneity / Patrick Fortmann
- “Man muß in socialen Dingen von einem absoluten Rechtsgrundsatz ausgehen”. Recht und Gesetz nach Büchner / Gideon Stiening
- Danton’s Tod: Eine Relektüre / Harro Müller
- Substance and Suffering in Danton’s Tod: The Payne Dialogue (III, 1) / Rodney Taylor
- Lenz’ Doppelgesicht: Büchners Spaltung der Figur als Bedingung der Kohärenz der Erzählung / Bernhard Greiner
- The Aesthetic “Theology” of Büchner’s Lenz / William Collins Donahue
- Mimesis of Everyday Life in the Kunstgespräch of Büchner’s Lenz: Realist Aesthetics between Anti-Ideal and Social Art / Anna Guillemin
- Langeweile, Lebenskarriere und Literatur: Zu einer Figur poetischer Produktivität bei Büchner / Patrick Fortmann
- “Komm Leonce, halte mir einen Monolog, ich will zuhören”. Büchners eingestandener Stillstand / Norbert Otto Eke
- Tactical Citation in Georg Büchner’s Leonce und Lena / John B. Lyon
- “Er ist ein interessanter casus, Subjekt Woyzeck”. Büchners Fallgeschichten / Nicolas Pethes
- Eine Anekdote aus “den englischen Blättern”: Büchner als Gegengeschichtsschreiber (am Beispiel seines Briefes vom 15. März 1836) / Ariane Martin
- Zu Volker Brauns ‘kreativer’ Rezeption von Büchner-Briefen / Gerd Labroisse
- “Where id was. . .”: Danton According to Georg Büchner, Stanisława Przybyszewska and Andrzej Wajda / Paul Coates
- An den Grenzen der Konjekturalphilologie: Zu einigen offenen Fragen der Büchneredition / Herbert Wender
- Zwischen Überlieferung und Rezeption. Umdenken in der Woyzeck-Philologie. Zum Fragmentstatus von Büchners wirkungsmächtigstem Werk / Henri Poschmann.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-54311-7
- 9786613855565
- 94-012-0807-7
- OCLC:
- 806205203
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789401208079 DOI
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