A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

New essays providing a comprehensive view of the pathbreaking dramatist and theorist Lessing.

List of contents

Introduction: Lessing's Life and Work - Barbara Fischer and Thomas C. Fox
Lessing and the European Enlightenment - Steven D. Martinson
Lessing the Critic - Klaus L. Berghahn
Lessing and the Fable - John Pizer
Lessing's Poetics as an Approach to Aesthetics - Beate Allert
Lessing and Philosophy - H. B. Nisbet
Lessing and Theology - Arno Schilson
Lessing and the Jews - Willi Goetschel
Lessing's Drama Theory - Peter Höyng
Gender and Identity in Lessing's Dramatic Works - Karin A. Wurst
Lessing and the Third Reich - Ann Schmiesing
Lessing on the German-Speaking Stage in the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, 1945-1990 - Reinhart Meyer
Lessing on the East German Stage and Screen - Thomas C. Fox and Heinz-Joachim Kertscher
200 Years of Lessing Reception - Hinrich C. Seeba
The Lessing Museum in Kamenz - Dieter Fratzke
The Lessing Academy in Wolfenbüttel - Helmut Berthold
The Lessing Society - Herbert Rowland

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Fischer
• Assisted by: Barbara Fischer (Editor), Thomas C Fox (Editor), Thomas C. Fox (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9781571134523
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-452-3
• No. of pages: 428
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 626 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies