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Who is This Schiller Now?
Jeffrey High
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New essays by top international Schiller scholars on the reception of the great German writer and dramatist, emphasizing his realist aspects. The works of Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) -- an innovative and resonant tragedian and an important poet, essayist, historian, and aesthetic theorist -- are among the best known of German and world literature. Schiller's explosive original artistry and feel for timely and enduring personal tragedy embedded in timeless sociohistorical conflicts remain the topic of lively academic debate. The essays in this volume address the many flashpoints and canonicalshifts in the cyclically polarized reception of Schiller and his works, in pursuit of historical and contemporary answers to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's expression of frightened admiration in 1794: "Who is this Schiller?" The responses demonstrate pronounced shifts from widespread twentieth-century understandings of Schiller: the overwhelming emphasis here is on Schiller the cosmopolitan realist, and little or no trace is left of the ultimately untenable view of Schiller as an abstract idealist who turned his back on politics. Contributors: Ehrhard Bahr, Matthew Bell, Frederick Burwick, Jennifer Driscoll Colosimo, Bernd Fischer, Gail K. Hart, Fritz Heuer, Hans H. Hiebel, Jeffrey L. High, Walter Hinderer, Paul E. Kerry, Erik B. Knoedler, Elisabeth Krimmer, Maria del Rosario Acosta López, Laura Anna Macor, Dennis F. Mahoney, Nicholas Martin, John A. McCarthy, Yvonne Nilges, Norbert Oellers, Peter Pabisch, David Pugh, T. J. Reed, Wolfgang Riedel, Jörg Robert, Ritchie Robertson, Jeffrey L. Sammons, Henrik Sponsel. Jeffrey L. High is Associate Professor of German Studies at California State University Long Beach, Nicholas Martin is Reader in European Intellectual History at the University of Birmingham, and Norbert Oellers is Professor Emeritus of German Literature at the University of Bonn.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571134882
SKU
V9781571134882
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About Jeffrey High
JEFFREY L. HIGH is Professor in German Studies, Comparative Literature, and Honors at California State University, Long Beach, CA. BERND FISCHER is Emeritus Academy Professor at the Ohio State University. ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. GAIL K. HART is Professor Emerita of German at the University of California, Irvine. JEFFREY L. SAMMONS is Professor Emeritus, Yale University JEFFREY L. HIGH is Professor in German Studies, Comparative Literature, and Honors at California State University, Long Beach, CA. JOHN A. MCCARTHY is Professor of German and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Vanderbilt University. LAURA ANNA MACOR is Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Verona.
Reviews for Who is This Schiller Now?
[D]emands attention not least for the great variety of approaches chosen by its well-qualified contributors, all of whom share the common aim of liberating Schiller from his traditional role as the junior member of the Weimar partnership. . . . [T]he bulk of the constituent material gives us a Schiller still vibrantly alive
now, and in the foreseeable future.
Osman Durrani,
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
[A]n indispensable introduction to Schiller scholarship: it presents historicized research covering a broad range of Schiller's legacy, is extensively resourced, and demonstrates considerable self-reflexivity regarding international Germanistik.
GOETHE YEARBOOK
[A] rich, varied, and rewarding volume of scholarship. . . . [B]oth specialists and more casual readers of Schiller's works, and indeed those readers with an interest in the history of ideas, stand to benefit from a sustained reading of the learned meditations contained within it.
FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES
[T]he premise of the book's conception [is] fully to be accepted, and finds realization in a number of important contributions that broaden and deepen our knowledge about Schiller's illusionless realism, his understanding of politics, his philosophical position, his critique of religion, and his skeptical treatment of historical experience in his poetic and theoretical works.
GERMANISTIK
Divided into five parts covering drama and poetry, aesthetics and philosophy, history and politics, reception and 'Schiller Now', the essays reveal Schiller as a dramatist of melancholy, a 'poet of Mourning', and an Enlightenment historian, to mention just three of the wide variety of perspectives offered . . . [a] useful contemporary collection. Recommended.
CHOICE
[P]ositions itself - rightly - over and against the mid-century creation of a politically naïve, if not dangerous, Schiller, who cartoonishly embodied the backlash within Anglo-American circles against German politics and German idealism. . . . [T]his collection is a conscious effort not only to avoid reducing Schiller to any of his readily identifiable personae, but also to interrogate the twentieth-century scholarly trends that have made this reduction something that must be avoided.
GERMAN QUARTERLY
now, and in the foreseeable future.
Osman Durrani,
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
[A]n indispensable introduction to Schiller scholarship: it presents historicized research covering a broad range of Schiller's legacy, is extensively resourced, and demonstrates considerable self-reflexivity regarding international Germanistik.
GOETHE YEARBOOK
[A] rich, varied, and rewarding volume of scholarship. . . . [B]oth specialists and more casual readers of Schiller's works, and indeed those readers with an interest in the history of ideas, stand to benefit from a sustained reading of the learned meditations contained within it.
FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES
[T]he premise of the book's conception [is] fully to be accepted, and finds realization in a number of important contributions that broaden and deepen our knowledge about Schiller's illusionless realism, his understanding of politics, his philosophical position, his critique of religion, and his skeptical treatment of historical experience in his poetic and theoretical works.
GERMANISTIK
Divided into five parts covering drama and poetry, aesthetics and philosophy, history and politics, reception and 'Schiller Now', the essays reveal Schiller as a dramatist of melancholy, a 'poet of Mourning', and an Enlightenment historian, to mention just three of the wide variety of perspectives offered . . . [a] useful contemporary collection. Recommended.
CHOICE
[P]ositions itself - rightly - over and against the mid-century creation of a politically naïve, if not dangerous, Schiller, who cartoonishly embodied the backlash within Anglo-American circles against German politics and German idealism. . . . [T]his collection is a conscious effort not only to avoid reducing Schiller to any of his readily identifiable personae, but also to interrogate the twentieth-century scholarly trends that have made this reduction something that must be avoided.
GERMAN QUARTERLY