| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 516 pages) |
| Series |
A comparative history of literatures in European languages, 0238-0668 ; v. 9 |
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Comparative history of literatures in European languages ; v. 9.
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| Contents |
The Italian Romantic Drama in Its European Context / Marvin Carlson -- Romantic Drama in the Hispanic World: The Picturesque Mode / John Dowling -- Polish Romantic Drama in Perspective / Harold B. Segel -- Russian Romantic Drama: The Case of Griboedov / Alexander Gershkovich -- Romanticism in Genres of Drama in Bohemia / Hana Voisine-Jechova -- Romantic Drama in Hungary / Mihaly Szegedy-Maszak -- Romantic Trends in Scandinavian Drama / George Bisztray -- From Dark into Light: Nineteenth-Century Romantic Drama in English-Canada / Richard Plant -- Nineteenth-Century American Drama: A Romantic Quest / Dinnah Pladott -- The Romantic Theater in Hispanic America / Emilio Carilla -- Classic Vision in the Romantic Age: Goethe's Reconstitution of European Drama in Faust II / Gerald Gillespie -- Romantic Irony and Biedermeier Tragicomedy / Virgil Nemoianu -- Romantic Cosmic Drama / Martin Esslin -- The Past Is Prologue: The Romantic Heritage in Dramatic Literature / Gerald Gillespie |
| Summary |
In Romantic Drama, three dozen comparatists join forces for a supranational, crosscultural reexamination of the deep paradigm shifts appearing around the start of the nineteenth century which revolutionized drama as a literary art within the enormous civilization constituted by Europe and her overseas extensions |
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Romantic pronouncements on the canon and poetics of drama, the symptomatic subject-matters treated by Romantic playwrights, the structural means by which they expressed their view of the world, and regional peculiarities are illuminated from multiple perspectives. The volume aspires to skirt the pitfalls of simplistic genetic or teleological thinking |
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It does not treat Romanticism as a limited "period" dominated by some construed singular master-ethos or dialectic; rather, it follows the literary patterns and dynamics of Romanticism as a flow of interactive currents across geocultural frontiers |
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Finally, this involves recognizing the Romantic heritage in literary phenomena reaching into our own times. Thus the Romantic celebration of imagination, creation of a theater of the mind, experience of intertextuality, dissolving of generic boundaries, and embrace of "myth" as a challenge to older "history" figure among the important topics, as do Romantic foreshadowings of Symbolist, Existentialist, and Absurdist drama |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-487)-and indexes |
| Subject |
European drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Romanticism -- Europe
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Theater -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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European drama
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Romanticism
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Theater
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Romantik
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Drama
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Toneel.
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Theaterwetenschap.
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Romantiek.
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Romantisme -- Europe.
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Drame romantique -- Histoire et critique.
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Théâtre européen -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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Théâtre -- Europe -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
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Romantisme (littérature)
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Europe
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Europa
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gillespie, Gerald, 1933-
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| LC no. |
93034838 |
| ISBN |
9789027277114 |
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9027277117 |
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9781556196003 |
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1556196008 |
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9630548445 |
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9789630548441 |
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