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1 online resource (vi, 377 pages) : illustrations |
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Camden House history of German literature ; v. 6 |
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Camden House history of German literature ; v. 6.
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| Contents |
Sturm und Drang passions and eighteenth-century psychology / Bruce Duncan -- Herder and the Sturm und Drang / Wulf Koepke -- Ossian, Herder, and the idea of folk song / Howard Gaskill -- "Shakespeare has quite spoilt you" : the drama of the Sturm und Drang / Francis Lamport -- Theater practice of the Sturm und Drang / Michael Patterson -- "Die schönsten Träume von Freiheit werden ja im Kerker geträumt" : the rhetoric of freedom in the Sturm und Drang / David Hill -- Young Goethe's political fantasies / W. Daniel Wilson -- "Wilde Wünsche" : the discourse of love in the Sturm und Drang / Karin A. Wurst -- Discursive dissociations : women playwrights as observers of the Sturm und Drang / Susanne Kord -- Schiller and the end of the Sturm und Drang / Alan Leidner -- Sturm und Drang in music / Margaret Stoljar -- Sturm und Drang and the periodization of the eighteenth century / Gerhard Sauder |
| Summary |
'Sturm und Drang' refers to a set of values and a style of writing that arose in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century, a particularly intense kind of pre-Romanticism that has often been represented as marking the beginning of an independent modern German culture. The circle of writers around the young Goethe, including Herder, Lenz, Klinger, and later Schiller, felt frustrated by the Enlightenment world of reason, balance, and control, and turned instead to nature as the source of authentic experience. Inspired by Rousseau and Herder, by Shakespeare, and by folk culture, they rebelled against propriety and experimented with new literary forms, their creative energy bursting through conventions that seemed staid and artificial. The Sturm und Drang has often been cited by those attempting to legitimate nationalism and irrationalism, but scholars have more recently emphasized the diversity of the movement and the links between it and the Enlightenment. This volume of essays by leading scholars from the UK, the US, and Germany illuminates the guiding ideas of the movement, discussing its most important authors, texts, and ideas, and taking account of the variety and complexity of the movement, placing it more securely within late-eighteenth-century European history. The main focus is on literature, and in particular on the drama, which was of special importance to the Sturm und Drang. However, the essays also outline the social conditions that gave rise to the movement, and consideration is given to different currents of ideas that underlie the movement, including areas of thought and bodies of work that traditional approaches have tended to marginalize. Contributors: Bruce Duncan, Howard Gaskill, Wulf Koepke, Susanne Kord, Frank Lamport, Alan Leidner, Matthias Luserke, Michael Patterson, Gerhard Sauder, Margaret Stoljar, Daniel Wilson, Karin Wurst. David Hill is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of German Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-353) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Sturm und Drang movement.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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German literature.
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Sturm und Drang movement.
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Literatur
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Sturm und Drang
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Literatura alemã (história e crítica) -- Século 18.
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Deutsch.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hill, David, 1943-
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| LC no. |
2002010539 |
| ISBN |
9781571136015 |
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1571136010 |
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