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Writing the Self, Creating Community
This volume examines the world of German women writers who emerged in the burgeoning literary marketplace of eighteenth-century Europe.
A National Repertoire
Friedrich Schiller had a difficult relationship with the theatre world and wrote plays that, though successful on stage, ran counter to contemporary trends. This study sets Schiller in the context of the theatre history of his period by examining the impact on his dramatic production of the circumstances of the two theatres with which he was closely involved, the Mannheim National Theatre and the Weimar Court Theatre, where Goethe was Director. Born in the same year as Schiller, August Wilhelm Iffland was the most prominent actor of his generation and a prolific playwright, whose early career at the Mannheim theatre made him Schiller's rival. Yet later, as Director of the Berlin National Theatre, Iffland helped create a national repertoire with Schiller's dramas as its cornerstone. By analysing the theatrical careers of Schiller and Iffland in parallel, this study explores the developing belief in theatre as a cultural institution. It also illuminates the relationship between Schiller and Goethe as theatre practitioners.
Uncivil Unions
Discusses the Idealist and Romantic poets and philosophers in Germany in the early 19th century, who thought about marriage differently from their Enlightenment predecessors.
The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna
Mozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now-popular operas has received little critical attention. In this richly detailed book, Mary Hunter offers a sweeping, synthetic view of opera buffa in the lively theatrical world of late-eighteenth-century Vienna. Opera buffa (Italian-language comic opera) persistently entertained audiences at a time when Joseph was striving for a German national theater. Hunter attributes opera buffa's success to its ability to provide "sheer" pleasure and hence explores how the genre functioned as entertainment. She argues that opera buff...
Wagner's Melodies
Since the 1840s, critics have lambasted Wagner for lacking the ability to compose melody. But for him, melody was fundamental - 'music's only form'. This incongruity testifies to the surprising difficulties during the nineteenth century of conceptualizing melody. Despite its indispensable place in opera, contemporary theorists were unable even to agree on a definition for it. In Wagner's Melodies, David Trippett re-examines Wagner's central aesthetic claims, placing the composer's ideas about melody in the context of the scientific discourse of his age: from the emergence of the natural sciences and historical linguistics to sources about music's stimulation of the body and inventions for 'automatic' composition. Interweaving a rich variety of material from the history of science, music theory, music criticism, private correspondence and court reports, Trippett uncovers a new and controversial discourse that placed melody at the apex of artistic self-consciousness and generated problems of urgent dimensions for German music aesthetics.
Schiller: National Poet – Poet of Nations
To mark the 200th anniversary of Schiller’s death, leading scholars from Germany, Canada, the UK and the USA have contributed to this volume of commemorative essays. These were first presented at a symposium held at the University of Birmingham in June 2005. The essays collected here shed important new light on Schiller’s standing as a national and transnational figure , both in his own lifetime and in the two hundred years since his death. Issues explored include: aspects of Schiller’s life and work which contributed to the creation of heroic and nationalist myths of the poet during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; his activities as man of the theatre and publisher in his own, pre-national context; the (trans-)national dimensions of Schiller’s poetic and dramatic achievement in their contemporary context and with reference to later appropriations of national(ist) elements in his work. The contributions to this volume illuminate Schiller’s achievements as poet, playwright, thinker and historian, and bring acute insights to bear on both the history of his impact in a variety of contexts and his enduring importance as a point of cultural reference.
Text und Autor
Mit Blick auf das textkritisch ebenso interessante wie problematische Verhältnis von "Text" und "Autor" bieten Kollegiaten des Graduiertenkollegs »Textkritik als Grundlage und Methode historischer Wissenschaften«, München, die Ergebnisse ihres Venedig-Symposiums dar und stellen ihre fachliche und theoretische Kompetenz unter Beweis. Das Spektrum der betrachteten Gegenstände reicht von antiken Inschriften und ein mittelalterliches Autorbewußtsein über musikalische Werke der Renaissance bis hin zu Texten der Gegenwartsliteratur. Editionsgeschichtlich spannt sich der Bogen von den textkritischen Anfängen bei J.J. Bodmer und J. Grimm bis zur textgenetischen Edition der Neuzeit.
Writers' Houses and the Making of Memory
This innovative new book examines the ways in which writers’ houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novelists both reflect and construct the author’s private and artistic persona; it also demonstrates how this materialized process of self-fashioning is subsequently appropriated within various strategies and policies of cultural memory.
Pro und contra Goethe
Goethes Rezeption in Deutschland war anfangs höchst kontrovers und wandelte sich erst im Laufe der Zeit zu einer Verkultung des Dichters. Das Buch geht mit einer dialektisierenden Optik an Goethe heran. Anhand der beiden Kategorien «Pro» und «Contra» werden Werk und Wirkung Goethes aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln betrachtet und in den geistesgeschichtlichen Kontext eingereiht.
