Essays on German Theater: Lessing, Brecht, Durrenmatt, and others

It is against this background of the theater''s high prestige as a forum for ideas, as the summit of the literary arts, as the place where all the arts coalesce in a Wagnerian ''Gesamtkunstwerk'' or dialectically oppose and ironize each other in Brechtian epic ''alienation, '' of the drama as a method of thought, of concrete philosophizing, that the astounding wealth of critical and theoretical writings about drama and theater that the German-speaking world has produced over the last two hundred and fifty years must be seen and appreciated.>

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Herzfeld-Sander
• Assisted by: Margaret Herzfeld-Sander (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1997
• EAN: 9780826402974
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-0297-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: German Library
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies