Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Literature of Weimar ClassicismCondition: NewISBN-10: 157113249XEAN: 9781571132499ISBN: 9781571132499Publisher: Camden House IncFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/30/2005Description: New essays providing an account of the shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values of Weimar Classicism.In Germany, Weimar Classicism (roughly the period from Goethe's return to Germany from Italy in 1788 to the death of his friend and collaborator Schiller in 1805) is widely regarded as an apogee of literary art. But outside of Germany, Goethe is considered a Romantic, and the notion of Weimar Classicism as a distinct period is viewed with skepticism. This volume of new essays regards the question of literary period as a red herring: Weimar Classicism is best understood as a project that involved the ambitious attempt not only to imagine but also to achieve a new quality of wholeness in human life and culture at a time when fragmentation, division, and alienation appeared to be thenorm. By not succumbing to the myth of Weimar and its literary giants, but being willing to explore the phenomenon as a complex cultural system with a unique signature, this book provides an account of its shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values. Contributions from leading German, British, and North American scholars open up multiple interdisciplinary perspectives on the period. Essays on the novel, poetry, drama, and theater are joined by accounts of politics, philosophy, visual culture, women writers, and science. The reader is introduced to the full panoply of cultural life in Weimar, its accomplishments as well as its excesses and follies. Emancipatory and doctrinaire by turns, the project of Weimar Classicism is best approached as a complex whole. Contributors: Dieter Borchmeyer, Charles Grair, Gail Hart, Thomas Saine, Jane Brown, Cyrus Hamlin, Roger Stephenson, Elisabeth Krimmer, Helmut Pfotenhauer, Benjamin Bennett, Astrida Orle Tantillo, W. Daniel Wilson. Simon J. Richter is Associate Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmContributor: Simon Richter (Edited by), Astrida Orle Tantillo (Contributions by), Benjamin K. Bennett (Contributions by), Charles A. Grair (Contributions by), Cyrus Hamlin (Contributions by), Dieter Borchmeyer (Contributions by), Elisabeth Krimmer (Contributions by), Gail K. Hart (Contributions by), Helmut Pfotenhauer (Contributions by), Jane K. Brown (Contributions by), Roger Stephenson (Contributions by), Simon Richter (Contributions by), Thomas Saine (Contributions by), W. Daniel Wilson (Contributions by)Genre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Camden House History of German LiteratureItem Weight: 1gAuthor: Roger StephensonRelease Year: 2005 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Literature of Weimar Classicism
Title: The Literature of Weimar Classicism
ISBN-10: 157113249X
EAN: 9781571132499
ISBN: 9781571132499
Release Date: 09/30/2005
Release Year: 2005
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: W. Daniel Wilson (Contributions by)
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 420 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Literature of Weimar Classicism
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated
Subject: European / German, Référence
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 2005
Item Weight: 28.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Author: Charles A. Grair
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Series: Camden House History of German Literature Ser.
Format: Hardcover
