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Literature, the Volk and the Revolution in Mid-nineteenth Century Germany
Between the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, poverty reached new extremes in Germany, as in other European countries, and gave rise to a class of disaffected poor, leading to the widespread expectation of a social revolution. Whether welcomed or feared, it dominated private and public debate to a larger extent than is generally assumed as is shown in this study on the reflections in literature of what was called the "Social Question." Examining works by Heine, Eichendorff, Nestroy, Büchner, Grillparzer, and Theodor Storm, the author reveals an acute awareness of political issues in an era in literature which is often seen as tending to quiescence and withdrawal from public preoccupations.
Grillparzer's Libussa
In Grillparzer's Libussa William Reeve provides an important interpretation of a work that has received little detailed attention from European and American critics. The play has been dealt with in a broader context in numerous monograph-length overviews or introductions to Grillparzer, but this is the first time that it has received the careful consideration it deserves.
Hermann Broch, Visionary in Exile
Studies of one of the foremost 20c Austrian writers, as a critic and as a novelist and dramatist. The Austrian novelist Hermann Broch ranks with Kafka and Musil among the three greatest 20th-century Austrian novelists and belongs to the century's most gifted novelists in German from whatever country. He established his reputation with The Sleepwalkers, a trilogy of political and philosophical novels. His best-known work is The Death of Virgil, a long, challenging work in a lyrical, exuberant, and sometimes nearly incomprehensible style, akind of cerebral stream-of-consciousness of the dying Virgil. Broch also wrote extensively about modern art and architecture, Hofmannsthal, and mass psychol...
Langeweile
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Wilhelm Hauff, oder, Die Virtuosität der Einbildungskraft
Die Texte beleuchten die Virtuosität von Wilhelm Hauffs Erzählkunst. Darüber hinaus bietet der Band bislang unveröffentlichte Dokumente. Der Auftritt Wilhelm Hauffs (1802-1827) auf der literarischen Bühne der Biedermeierzeit war kurz, skandalumwittert und publikumswirksam. Dieser junge Autor verstand es meisterlich, auf der Klaviatur des Geschmacks und des Marktes zu spielen. Doch anders als bei vergleichbaren Erfolgsautoren geriet sein Werk nicht in Vergessenheit, sondern wirkt bis in die Gegenwart fort - auf ungewöhnliche und wiederum sehr populäre Weise: Als Volksmärchen zweiter Ordnung haben Hauffs Märchen ihren Weg bis in die Phantasiewelten unserer Tage gefunden, und die in se...
Thibaut - Zycha
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Schiller's "On Grace and Dignity" in Its Cultural Context
The first English scholarly edition of Schiller's pivotal essay, accompanied by the first comprehensive commentary on it. Friedrich Schiller is not only one of the leading poets and dramatists of German Classicism but also an inspiring philosopher. His essay "Über Anmut und Würde" (On Grace and Dignity) marks a radical break with Enlightenment thinking and its morally prescriptive agenda. Here Schiller does not pursue the prevalent interest in the individual artist as genius or in the creative act; instead, he establishes a harmony of mind and body in the aesthetic realm, putting down his thoughts on aesthetics in a systematic way for the first time, building on his own earlier forays into...
Gender and Identity in Franz Grillparzer’s Classical Dramas
Figuring the Female explores language as a cultural document for an intervention into the ways that female alterity is framed in the ancient world. Grillparzer creates a new way of being that is primarily discursive in which the once unintelligible female figure may be known and heard.
Opfer der Humanität
Dieses Buch widerlegt aus einer wirkungsästhetischen Perspektive die These, Grillparzer verteidige in seinen Werken eine überindividuelle Ordnung gegen die subjektivistischen Tendenzen seiner Zeit.
