Schiller`s Wallenstein, Maria Stuart, and D - The Critical Legacy

An overview of the reception of Schiller's late dramas in the context of radical shifts in historical thought.

List of contents

The legacy of the Enlightenment - criticism by Schiller's contemporaries; Hegel, Herder and Ranke - Schiller during the century of historicism; the metaphysical crisis, World War II and the aftermath; Schiller's late historical plays and the Third Reich; Schiller from the left - early leftist criticism and criticism in the German Democratic Republic; the Federal Republic of Germany and post-(re)unification criticism.

About the author

Katherine Saranpa is Assistant Professor of German and Scandinavian at the University of Oregon.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Saranpa, Kathy Saranpa, Kathy J. Saranpa
• Publisher: Camden House
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2002
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 6 mm x 9 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Literary Criticism in Perspect
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies