A Companion to the Works of Friedrich Schiller: 74 (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1571134549 ISBN 13: 9781571134547

Publisher: Camden House, 2010

Synopsis

Friedrich Schiller is not merely one of Germany's foremost poets. He is also one of the major German contributors to world literature. 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. It includes in-depth discussions of the writer'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 20th-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.

Steven D. Martinson is Professor of German at the University of Arizona.

About this title

Review:

Has a number of good essays which will appeal to the newcomer to Schiller and have something to say as well to the more experienced reader. -- FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES, Vol 43, no 4, October 2007

Highly recommended. -- CHOICE, January 2006

The volume has a lot to offer the English-speaking student of
Schiller. -- GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW, 30/1 (2007)

About the Author:

Professor of German Studies and Associated Faculty in Religious Studies, University of Arizona.

About this edition

• Publisher: Camden House
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1571134549
• ISBN 13: 9781571134547
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Martinson Professor Emeritus Steven D.