German Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Robert R. Heitner
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 486
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert R. Heitner
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 486
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alan Menhennet
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781571132550
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Major figures treated include Gryphius, Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, Grillparzer, Hebbel, Schnitzler, and Brecht. There is no competing work in English."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Barbara Becker-Cantarino
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1571132465
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Enlightenment was based on the use of reason, common sense, and "natural law," and was paralleled by an emphasis on feelings and the emotions in religious, especially Pietist circles. Progressive thinkers in England, France, and later in Germany began to assail the absolutism of the state and the orthodoxy of the Church; in Germany the line led from Leibniz, Thomasius, and Wolff to Lessing and Kant, and eventually to the rise of an educated upper middle class. Literary developments encompassed the emergence of a national theater, literature, and a common literary language. This became possible in part because of advances in literacy and education, especially among bourgeois women, and the reorganization of book production and the book market. This major new reference work provides a fresh look at the major literary figures, works, and cultural developments from around 1700 up to the late Enlightenment. They trace the 18th-century literary revival in German-speaking countries: from occasional and learned literature under the influence of French Neoclassicism to the establishment of a new German drama, religious epic and secular poetry, and the sentimentalist novel of self-fashioning. The volume includes the new, stimulating works of women, a chapter on music and literature, chapters on literary developments in Switzerland and in Austria, and a chapter on reactions to the Enlightenment from the 19th century to the present. The recent revaluing of cultural and social phenomena affecting literary texts informs the presentations in the individual chapters and allows for the inclusion of hitherto neglected but important texts such as essays, travelogues, philosophical texts, and letters. Contributors: Kai Hammermeister, Katherine Goodman, Helga Brandes, Rosmarie Zeller, Kevin Hilliard, Francis Lamport, Sarah Colvin, Anna Richards, Franz M. Eybl, W. Daniel Wilson, Robert Holub. Barbara Becker-Cantarino is Research Professor in German at the Ohio State University.
Author: Mitchell Greenberg
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1350155098
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The period covered by this volume in the Cultural History of Tragedy set is bookended by two shockingly similar historical events: the beheading of a king, Charles I of England in 1649 and Louis XIV of France in 1793. The period between these two dates saw enormous political, social and economic changes that altered European society's cultural life. Tragedy, which had dominated the European stage at the beginning of this period, gradually saw itself replaced by new literary forms, culminating in the gradual decline of theatrical tragedy from the heights it had reached in the 1660s. The dominance of France's military and cultural prestige during this period is reflected in the important, almost exclusive, space dedicated in this volume to the French stage. This book covers the tragedies of France's two greatest playwrights - Pierre Corneille (1606-84) and Jean Racine (1639-99) - which would dominate not only the French stage but, through translations and adaptations, became the model of tragic theater across Europe, finding imitators in England (Dryden), Italy (Alfieri) and as far afield as Russia. This dominance continued well into the 18th century with the triumph of Voltaire's tragedies. This volume also examines how the writings of Diderot and Lessing changed the direction of theatre and how after the Revolution, in the writings of Goethe, Shiller, Hegel, tragedy and the tragic were reimagined and became the sign of European modernity. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
Author: Rudolf Vierhaus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780521339360
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reconstructs the structures that marked the history of Germany from the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Seven Years' War.
Author: Professor Neal Zaslaw
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-14
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 1349206288
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the series examining the development of music in specific places during particular times, this book looks at the classical period, in Europe and America, from Vienna and Salzburg to the Iberian courts and Philadelphia.
Author: F. J. Lamport
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521428286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This historical and critical survey of German drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries provides an introduction to major authors and works from Lessing, through Goethe, Schiller and Weimar Classicism, to Kleist, Grillparzer and Hebbel. F.J. Lamport traces the rise and development in the German-speaking world of the last form of "classical" poetic drama to appear in European literature. This development is seen as reflecting the intellectual and political ferment both within Germany and throughout Europe.
Author: Sara Etta Schreiber
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Published: 1948
Total Pages: 298
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Studies the status of women during the critical years of the "Aufkarung". Looks at restrictions and conventions governing their lives in a period when the increasing wealth and the greater leisure of its women opened up new vistas on the social horizon.
Author: S. Etta Schreiber
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781258933531
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.