The Plays of Grillparzer, By George A. Wells
Author : George Albert Wells
Publisher :
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 39,55 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Grillparzer, Franz, 1791-1872
ISBN :
Author : George Albert Wells
Publisher :
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 39,55 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Grillparzer, Franz, 1791-1872
ISBN :
Author : George A. Wells
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1483140296
The Plays of Grillparzer presents a compilation of the works of Franz Grillparzer, a famous Austrian dramatist, with emphasis on the significant features of his dramatic technique. This book presents some generalizations about what characterizes his tragedies and makes them effective. Comprised of five chapters, this book starts with an overview of Grillparzer's two plays for the popular stage, namely, Die Ahnfrau (1897) and Der Traum ein Leben (1834). This text then reviews the characteristics of Grillparzer's Greek tragedies wherein he prefers direct action to narrative. Other chapters examine the classic spirit of his second poetic drama, Sappho, which is characterized as halfway between a tragedy of fate and a tragedy of character. The final chapter examines the characterization in Grillparzer's third play, Libussa, wherein he uses an unusual extent to explain a situation, or the speaker's plans and emotions. This book is a valuable resource for readers who are interested in Franz Grillparzer's works.
Author : William C. Reeve
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780773518315
In Grillparzer's Libussa William Reeve provides an important interpretation of a work that has received little detailed attention from European and American critics. The play has been dealt with in a broader context in numerous monograph-length overviews or introductions to Grillparzer, but this is the first time that it has received the careful consideration it deserves.
Author : George Albert Wells
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 1969
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Matthias Konzett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1159 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113594122X
Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.
Author : Bert Cardullo
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 1992
Category : English drama (Comedy)
ISBN : 9780945636243
This is the first English collection of the greatest comedies written in German from the late-eighteenth to the late-nineteenth centuries. Each of the translated comedies is placed in historical context and in relationship to its author's life as well as his other plays, and each is followed by a select bibliography of English-language criticism and interpretation.
Author : Clemens Ruthner
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780820463759
This book is a collection of essays by prominent North American and European experts in Austrian literature concerning the Austrian playwright and author Franz Grillparzer, his relationship to various literary traditions, and his reception from the nineteenth century to the present. The chapters originated at a symposium held in February of 2003 at the University of Alberta sponsored by the University of Alberta's Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies.
Author : Derek Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 6858 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1136798633
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Ian Frank Roe
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN :
This work provides a general survey with the main emphasis on the thematic and dramatic content of the plays (genesis and background, structure, characters, major themes), as well as questions of language, style and imagery, especially where these contribute to the play's theatrical effectiveness. This work's most important contribution to scholarship is the investigation of Grillparzer's interest in the Classical generation of writers, reflected in almost all his works, either in the form of a debt to a particular work or in the echoing of key philosophical themes of the period. Grillparzer's mature works reveal an interest in high ideals on the one hand and a recognition of the demands of everyday reality on the other, while the formal precision of Classical drama is enriched by a theatrical immediacy in keeping with Viennese traditions. This combination reflects the conflicts in Grillparzer's own personality and results in a considerable degree of ambiguity in the presentation of characters and themes, but it is precisely such a rejection of easy solutions in his works that ensures their relevance for a modern audience.
Author : George Albert Wells
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Dramatists, German
ISBN : 9780080129495