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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 Lopez, Laura Anna Macor, Dennis F. Mahoney, Nicholas Martin, John A. McCarthy, Yvonne Nilges, Norbert Oellers, Peter Pabisch, David Pugh, T. J. Reed, Wolfgang Riedel, Joerg 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.

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Author:   Jeffrey L. High (Customer) ,  Nicholas Martin ,  Norbert Oellers ,  Professor Bernd Fischer (Contributor)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Camden House Inc
Volume:   v. 99
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 4.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.900kg
ISBN:  

9781571134882

ISBN 10:   1571134883
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   20 May 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Why Is This Schiller [Still] in the United States? - Jeffrey L. High Lenz und Schiller. Die erlebnissymptomatische Dramensprache - Hans Hiebel Melancholy in Schiller's Dramas - Matthew Bell Schillers Ästhetik der Trauer. Der Dichter als ""elegischer"" Lyriker und Dramatiker - Ehrhard Bahr Glühendes Wort zum Ideal über der versagenden Realität -zu Schillers Balladen - Peter Pabisch Zwischen Max Piccolomini und Buttler. Wallensteins Orts- und Zeitverluste - Norbert Oellers Die Moralphilosophie des jungen Schiller. Ein 'Kantianerante litteram' - Laura Anna Macor Aesthetic Humanism and Its Foes: The Perspective from Halle - David V. Pugh Zur kulturpolitischen Dynamik des ästhetischen Spiels in Schillers Briefen Ueber die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen - Bernd Fischer Die Empfänglichkeit für den ästhetischen Schein ist das a priorides Schönen in Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft. Das Orientierendein Schillers Forderung der ästhetischen Erziehung des Menschen - Fritz Heuer Energy and Schiller's Aesthetics from the ""Philosophical"" to the Aesthetic Letters - John A. McCarthy ""Making Other People's Feelings Our Own"": From the Aesthetic to the Political in Schiller's Aesthetic Letters - María del Rosario Acosta Schiller und die Demokratie - Yvonne Nilges God's Warriors, Mercenaries, or Freedom Fighters? Politics, Warfare, and Religion in Schiller's Geschichte des Dreyßigjährigen Kriegs - Elisabeth Krimmer Who Is This Black Knight? Schiller's Maid of Orleans and (Mythological) History - Erik Knoedler Religion and Violence in Schiller's Late Tragedies - Wolfgang Riedel So Who Was Naive? Schiller as Enlightenment Historian and His Successors - T. J. Reed Schiller and the Gothic - Reception and Reality - Jennifer Driscoll Colosimo Schiller's Plays on the British Stage, 1797-1825 - Frederick Burwick From Martyr to Vampire: The Figure of Mary Stuart in Drama from Vondel to Swinburne - Ritchie Robertson A Chapter of Schiller in America: The First World War and Volume 3 of Kuno Francke's Edition of The German Classics - Jeffrey L Sammons The Reluctant Recruit? Schiller in the Trenches, 1914-1918 - Nicholas Martin Schiller - Kommerell - George. Eine Konstellation der Moderne - Jörg Robert Was sagte dieser Schiller (damals)? Schillers Antworten auf seine Kritiker nach 1945 - Henrik Sponsel Maria Stuart Adaptations in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: From ""Classical"" Parodies to Contemporary Politics - Dennis Mahoney Whose Schiller Is This? Das Fremde und das Eigene in US Auslandsgermanistik - Gail K. Hart Schiller's Political Ideas: Who Cares? - Paul E. Kerry Where is This Schiller Now? - Walter Hinderer Notes on Contributors Index"

Reviews

(D)emands attention not least for the great variety of approaches chosen by its well-qualified contributors, all of whom share the common aim of liberating Schiller from his traditional role as the junior member of the Weimar partnership. . . . (T)he bulk of the constituent material gives us a Schiller still vibrantly alive -- now, and in the foreseeable future. --Osman Durrani, MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW (A)n indispensable introduction to Schiller scholarship: it presents historicized research covering a broad range of Schiller's legacy, is extensively resourced, and demonstrates considerable self-reflexivity regarding international Germanistik. GOETHE YEARBOOK (A) rich, varied, and rewarding volume of scholarship. . . . (B)oth specialists and more casual readers of Schiller's works, and indeed those readers with an interest in the history of ideas, stand to benefit from a sustained reading of the learned meditations contained within it. FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES (T)he premise of the book's conception (is) fully to be accepted, and finds realization in a number of important contributions that broaden and deepen our knowledge about Schiller's illusionless realism, his understanding of politics, his philosophical position, his critique of religion, and his skeptical treatment of historical experience in his poetic and theoretical works. GERMANISTIKBR> Divided into five parts covering drama and poetry, aesthetics and philosophy, history and politics, reception and Schiller Now, the essays reveal Schiller as a dramatist of melancholy, a poet of Mourning, and an Enlightenment historian, to mention just three of the wide variety of perspectives offered . . . (a) useful contemporary collection. Recommended. CHOICE (P)ositions itself - rightly - over and against the mid-century creation of a politically naive, if not dangerous, Schiller, who cartoonishly embodied the backlash within Anglo-American circles against German politics and German idealism. . . . (T)his collection i

Divided into five parts covering drama and poetry, aesthetics and philosophy, history and politics, reception and Schiller Now, the essays reveal Schiller as a dramatist of melancholy, a poet of Mourning, and an Enlightenment historian, to mention just three of the wide variety of perspectives offered...(a) useful contemporary collection. Recommended. --CHOICE

(A) rich, varied, and rewarding volume of scholarship. . . . (B)oth specialists and more casual readers of Schiller's works, and indeed those readers with an interest in the history of ideas, stand to benefit from a sustained reading of the learned meditations contained within it. FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES (T)he premise of the book's conception (is) fully to be accepted, and finds realization in a number of important contributions that broaden and deepen our knowledge about Schiller's illusionless realism, his understanding of politics, his philosophical position, his critique of religion, and his skeptical treatment of historical experience in his poetic and theoretical works. GERMANISTIK Divided into five parts covering drama and poetry, aesthetics and philosophy, history and politics, reception and Schiller Now, the essays reveal Schiller as a dramatist of melancholy, a poet of Mourning, and an Enlightenment historian, to mention just three of the wide variety of perspectives offered...(a) useful contemporary collection. Recommended. CHOICE (P)ositions itself - rightly - over and against the mid-century creation of a politically naive, if not dangerous, Schiller, who cartoonishly embodied the backlash within Anglo-American circles against German politics and German idealism. . . . (T)his collection is a conscious effort not only to avoid reducing Schiller to any of his readily identifiable personae, but also to interrogate the twentieth-century scholarly trends that have made this reduction something that must be avoided. GERMAN QUARTERLY (In pursuing the question, Who is this Schiller now? ) the book not only brings to light once again the inexhaustible multifacettedness of Schiller's work, but also a wealth of important insights. Some of these arise already out of the constellations through and by which individual contributions relate to and approach each other. MONATSHEFTE (A) rich, varied, and rewarding volume of scholarship. . . . (B)oth specialists and m

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JEFFREY L. HIGH is Professor in German Studies, Comparative Literature, and Honors at California State University, Long Beach, CA. BERND FISCHER is Emeritus Academy Professor at the Ohio State University. ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. GAIL K. HART is Professor Emerita of German at the University of California, Irvine. JEFFREY L. SAMMONS is Professor Emeritus, Yale University JEFFREY L. HIGH is Professor in German Studies, Comparative Literature, and Honors at California State University, Long Beach, CA. JOHN A. MCCARTHY is Professor of German and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Vanderbilt University. LAURA ANNA MACOR is Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Verona.

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