UID:
almahu_9949179535802882
Format:
1 online resource (532 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-32809-7
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9786613328090
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90-272-7711-7
Series Statement:
A comparative history of literatures in European languages, v. 9
Content:
In Romantic Drama, three dozen comparatists join forces for a supranational, cross cultural reexamination of the deep paradigm shifts appearing around the start of the nineteenth century which revolutionized drama as a literary art within the enormous civilization constituted by Europe and her overseas extensions. Romantic pronouncements on the canon and poetics of drama, the symptomatic subject-matters treated by Romantic playwrights, the structural means by which they expressed their view of the world, and regional peculiarities are illuminated from multiple perspectives. The volume as
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Description based upon print version of record.
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ROMANTIC DRAMA; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; GENERAL PREFACE; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION; I; II; III; I. RENEWAL AND INNOVATION; SHAKESPEARE AND THE FORMATION OF ROMANTIC DRAMA IN GERMANY AND FRANCE; I; II; III; THE RECEPTION OF THE SPANISH THEATRE IN EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM; ""THEATER IN THE THEATER"" AND ""WORLD THEATER"": PLAY THEMATICS AND THE BREAKTHROUGH OF ROMANTIC DRAMA; 1. Poetological Presuppositions of the Romantic Concept of ""Play""; 2. Theater within the Theater: From Purposeless Play to Dramatized Critique
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3. Romantic World Theater: From Aesthetic Idealism to Historical Nihilism LLUSION AND ROMANTIC DRAMA; ASSIMILATION AND ADAPTATION OF EXISTING FORMS IN DRAMA OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOID; I; II; III; II. THEMES, STYLES, STRUCTURES; SHAKESPEARE REFRACTED: WRITER, AUDIENCE, AND REWRITER IN FRENCH AND GERMAN ROMANTIC TRANSLATIONS; FOLKLORE AND ROMANTIC DRAMA; NATIONALISM AND THE ROMANTIC DRAMA IN EUROPE; ROMANTIC REDEFINITIONS OF THE TRAGIC; THE ROMANTIC TRAGEDY OF FATE; EMPATHY AND DISTANCE: GERMAN ROMANTIC THEORIES OF ACTING RECONSIDERED; WHAT IS ROMANTIC OPERA? -TOWARD A MUSICO-LITERARY DEFINITION; I
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IIIII. AFFINITY, DISSEMINATION, RECEPTION; THE ITALIAN ROMANTIC DRAMA IN ITS EUROPEAN CONTEXT; ROMANTIC DRAMA IN THE HISPANIC WORLD: THE PICTURESQUE MODE; POLISH ROMANTIC DRAMA IN PERSPECTIVE; RUSSIANROMANTICDRAMA: THE CASE OF GRIBOEDOV; I; II; Ill; IV; ROMANTICISM IN GENRES OF DRAMA IN BOHEMIA; ROMANTIC DRAMA IN HUNGARY; 1. Historical Tragedies; 2. Lyrical Drama and Fairy Tale; 3. Lyrical Drama and Encyclopaedic Form; ROMANTIC TRENDS IN SCANDINAVIAN DRAMA; FROM DARK INTO LIGHT: NINETEENTH-CENTURY ROMANTIC DRAMA IN ENGLISH-CANADA; NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN DRAMA: A ROMANTIC QUEST
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Romanticism and the American Dream The Dream of a Romanticized Past; The Present Reality - Explored and Glorified; Rousseauesque Heritage; The Indian Plays; The Yankee Plays; The Frontier Plays; Conclusion; THE ROMANTIC THEATER IN HISPANIC AMERICA; Introduction; Romantic Theater; Conclusion; IV. THE ROMANTIC LEGACY; CLASSIC VISION IN THE ROMANTIC AGE:GOETHE'S RECONSTITUTION OF EUROPEAN DRAMA IN FAUST II; I; II; III; ROMANTIC IRONY AND BIEDERMEIER TRAGICOMEDY; I; II; III; IV; V; ROMANTIC COSMIC DRAMA; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII
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THE PAST IS PROLOGUE:THE ROMANTIC HERITAGE IN DRAMATIC LITERATURE Revisions of the Canon; Romantic Classicism, Classicistic Romanticism; Social and National Consciousness; The New European Protagonists; Dramatic Modes and Paradigms; Regional Varieties; Neomythological Creation; Dissolving the Generic Boundaries of Drama; Connections with Symbolist Drama; Connections with Absurdist Drama; GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY; Romantic Poetics and Cross-Currents; Cultural Streams; Themes, Styles, Genres; Playwrights; INDEX; INDEX OF NAMES; INDEX OF TITLES
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-3441-8
Language:
English
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