A Companion to the Works of Friedrich Schiller
A Companion to the Works of Friedrich Schiller (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) Steven D. Martinson (Editor)
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 1571131833
DDC: 831.6
Edition: Hardcover; 2005-07-05
Summary:
Friedrich Schiller is not merely one of Germany's foremost poets. He
is also one of the major German contributors to world literature. In
Germany, Schiller celebrations and commemorations still play a role
in the formation of public opinion, and 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 that is particularly timely in view of the 200th
anniversary of the poet's death in 2005. Special attention is given
to both the paradigm shifts in Schiller's work in its development
over time and the indelible imprint of the early writings on his
later works. The contributors also remain sensitive to the multiple
levels on which the poet was working. The volume includes in-depth
discussions of Schiller'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 twentieth-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.
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