A Companion to the Works of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

New essays by leading scholars re-examining major aspects of the work of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the great Austrian poet and dramatist.

List of contents

Introduction: Hofmannsthal Today - Thomas Kovach
Hofmannsthal and Wiener Moderne: The Cultural Context - Hinrich C. Seeba
Hofmannsthal's Poems and Lyric Dramas - Andreas Thomasberger
Hofmannsthal's Narrative Prose: The Problem of Individuation - Ellen Ritter
Hofmannsthal's "Ein Brief": Chandos and his Crisis - Thomas Kovach
Hofmannsthal's Theater of Adaptation - Benjamin K. Bennett
The Hofmannsthal-Strauss Collaboration - Joanna Bottenberg
Hofmannsthal's Comedies - W E Yates
Hofmannsthal and the Salzburg Festival - Judith Beniston
Hofmannsthal's Essays: Conservation as Revolution - Katherine Arens
Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Political Vision - Nina Berman
Hofmannsthal Reception in the Twentieth Century - Douglas A Joyce

Product details

• Authors: Thomas A. Kovach
• Assisted by: Thomas Kovach (Editor), Thomas A. Kovach (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9781571134509
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-450-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 422 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature L
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies