Author: Alfred Newsom NiblettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Schiller: Dramatist, Historian and Poet
Author: Alfred Newsom NiblettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Friedrich Schiller
Author: Paul E. KerryPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039103072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) absorbed the fertile ideas of the German Enlightenment, observed first-hand fresh developments in German Romanticism, and fostered one of Europe's last great Classical movements. His insights into the human condition have endured and are as valuable now as they were when he first wrote. His characterisations of human nature remain compelling and his stylistic achievements in language continue to be admired and studied. His writing spanned many genres - poetry, prose, drama, history, philosophy - and includes a rich correspondence with Goethe. In this volume, an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars examines the many sides that Schiller displays. The contributors illuminate key facets of his ideas by organising his writing around his various vocations: his medical training; work as a poet, young dramatist, and author of literary prose; his tenure as a university professor and historian; the mutually productive partnership with Goethe; his philosophical writings; and his final years as a mature playwright. His afterlife, what Schiller has meant to Germans for two centuries, is also considered.
Schiller
Author: Alfred N. NiblettPublisher:
ISBN: 9780849219665
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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LIFE OF SCHILLER
Author: Life of Friedrich Schiller
Author: Henry Woodd NevinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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A Companion to the Works of Friedrich Schiller
Author: Steven D. MartinsonPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1571131833
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Friedrich Schiller is not merely one of Germany's foremost poets. He is also one of the major German contributors to world literature. The undying words he gave to characters such as Marquis Posa in Don Carlos and Wilhelm Tell in the eponymous drama continue to underscore the need for human freedom. Schiller cultivated hope in the actualization of moral knowledge through aesthetic education and critical reflection, leading to his ideal of a more humane humanity. At the same time, he was fully cognizant of the problems that attend various forms of idealism. Yet for Schiller, ultimately, love remains the gravitational center of the universe and of human existence, and beyond life and death joy prevails. This collection of cutting-edge essays by some of the world's leading Schiller experts constitutes a milestone in scholarship. It includes in-depth discussions of the writer's major dramatic and poetic works, his essays on aesthetics, and his activities as historian, anthropologist, and physiologist, as well as of his relation to the ancients and of Schiller reception in 20th-century Germany. Contributors: Steven D. Martinson, Walter Hinderer, David Pugh, Otto Dann, Werner von Stransky-Stranka-Greifenfels, J. M. van der Laan, Rolf-Peter Janz, Lesley Sharpe, Norbert Oellers, Dieter Borchmeyer, Karl S. Guthke, Wulf Koepke. Steven D. Martinson is Professor of German at the University of Arizona.
Friedrich Schiller
Author: Lesley SharpePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521308178
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist, poet and thinker against the background of his life.
Catalogue of the Educational Division of the South Kensington Museum
Author: South Kensington MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Catalogue of the educational division of the South Kensington museum
Author: Victoria and Albert museumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Who is this Schiller Now?
Author: Jeffrey L. HighPublisher: Camden House
ISBN: 1571134883
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
New essays by top international Schiller scholars on the reception of the great German writer and dramatist, emphasizing his realist aspects. 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 canonicalshifts 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. Contributors: 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.