Who is this Schiller now? : essays on his reception and significance

The Resource Who is this Schiller now? : essays on his reception and significance
Label
Who is this Schiller now? : essays on his reception and significance
Title remainder
essays on his reception and significance
Statement of responsibility
edited by Jeffrey L. High, Nicholas Martin, and Norbert Oellers
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Language
  • eng
  • ger
  • eng
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. 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. Jeffrey L. High is Associate Professor of German Studies at California State University Long Beach, Nicholas Martin is Reader in European Intellectual History at the University of Birmingham, and Norbert Oellers is Professor Emeritus of German Literature at the University of Bonn
Member of
Cataloging source
UkCbUP
Dewey number
831/.6
Index
index present
LC call number
PT2490
LC item number
.W55 2011
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by University of Liverpool. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.
Processing Feedback ...