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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.
List of contents
Introduction: Why Is This Schiller [Still] in the United States? - Jeffrey L. High
Lenz und Schiller. Die erlebnissymptomatische Dramensprache - Hans Hiebel
Melancholy in Schiller's Dramas - Matthew Bell
Schillers Ästhetik der Trauer. Der Dichter als "elegischer" Lyriker und Dramatiker - Ehrhard Bahr
Glühendes Wort zum Ideal über der versagenden Realität -zu Schillers Balladen - Peter Pabisch
Zwischen Max Piccolomini und Buttler. Wallensteins Orts- und Zeitverluste - Norbert Oellers
Die Moralphilosophie des jungen Schiller. Ein 'Kantianerante litteram' - Laura Anna Macor
Aesthetic Humanism and Its Foes: The Perspective from Halle - David V. Pugh
Zur kulturpolitischen Dynamik des ästhetischen Spiels in Schillers Briefen Ueber die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen - Bernd Fischer
Die Empfänglichkeit für den ästhetischen Schein ist das a priorides Schönen in Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft. Das Orientierendein Schillers Forderung der ästhetischen Erziehung des Menschen - Fritz Heuer
Energy and Schiller's Aesthetics from the "Philosophical" to the Aesthetic Letters - John A. McCarthy
"Making Other People's Feelings Our Own": From the Aesthetic to the Political in Schiller's Aesthetic Letters - María del Rosario Acosta
Schiller und die Demokratie - Yvonne Nilges
God's Warriors, Mercenaries, or Freedom Fighters? Politics, Warfare, and Religion in Schiller's Geschichte des Dreyßigjährigen Kriegs - Elisabeth Krimmer
Who Is This Black Knight? Schiller's Maid of Orleans and (Mythological) History - Erik Knoedler
Religion and Violence in Schiller's Late Tragedies - Wolfgang Riedel
So Who Was Naive? Schiller as Enlightenment Historian and His Successors - T. J. Reed
Schiller and the Gothic - Reception and Reality - Jennifer Driscoll Colosimo
Schiller's Plays on the British Stage, 1797-1825 - Frederick Burwick
From Martyr to Vampire: The Figure of Mary Stuart in Drama from Vondel to Swinburne - Ritchie Robertson
A Chapter of Schiller in America: The First World War and Volume 3 of Kuno Francke's Edition of The German Classics - Jeffrey L Sammons
The Reluctant Recruit? Schiller in the Trenches, 1914-1918 - Nicholas Martin
Schiller - Kommerell - George. Eine Konstellation der Moderne - Jörg Robert
Was sagte dieser Schiller (damals)? Schillers Antworten auf seine Kritiker nach 1945 - Henrik Sponsel
Maria Stuart Adaptations in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: From "Classical" Parodies to Contemporary Politics - Dennis Mahoney
Whose Schiller Is This? Das Fremde und das Eigene in US Auslandsgermanistik - Gail K. Hart
Schiller's Political Ideas: Who Cares? - Paul E. Kerry
Where is This Schiller Now? - Walter Hinderer
Notes on Contributors
Index
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Jeffrey L. High, Nicholas Martin, Norbert Oellers
Summary
New essays by top international Schiller scholars on the reception of the great German writer and dramatist, emphasizing his realist aspects.
