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Commitment and compassion : essays on Georg Bèuchner : Festschrift for Gerhard P. Knapp

Fortmann, Patrick, attributed name, Helfer, Martha B., 1962- editor, Knapp, Gerhard P., editor

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The writer, scientist, philosopher, and radical democrat Georg Bèuchner (1813-1837) occupies a unique place in the cultural legacy of the German-speaking countries. Born into an epoch of inevitable, yet arrested historical transition, Bèuchner produced a small but exceptionally rich body of work. This collection of essays in English and in German considers the full spectrum of his writings, the political pamphlet Der Hessische Landbote, the dramas Danton's Tod, Leonce und Lena, Woyzeck, and the fragmentary narrative Lenz, as well as the letters, the philosophical lectures on Descartes and Spinoza, and the scientific texts. The essays examine connections between these works, study texts in detail, debate ways of editing them, and trace their reception in contemporary literature and film. The novel readings presented here not only celebrate Bèuchner on the eve of his bicentenary birthday but also insert this ultimately figure into discussions of the revolution-restoration dynamic and realism in poetics and politics.

• Publisher: Rodopi
• Subject: Bèuchner, Georg, 1813-1837 Criticism and interpretation. / Bèuchner, Georg, 1813-1837. / Bèuchner, Georg 1813-1837
• ISBN: 9789042035331, 9042035331, 9789401208079, 9401208077

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PT1828.B6 C66 2012	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE