Persistence of Folly : : On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature / / Joel B. Lande.
Joel B. Lande’s Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted account of the origins of German theater by focusing on the misunderstood figure of the fool, whose spontaneous and impish jest captivated audiences, critics, and playwrights from the late sixteenth through the early nineteenth century. La...
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Lande, Joel B., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Persistence of Folly : On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature / Joel B. Lande. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (366 p.) : 4 b&w halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Fool at Play -- 1. Birth of a Comic Form -- 2. Strolling Players and the Advent of the Fool -- 3. Practice of Stage Interaction -- 4. The Fool’s Space and Time -- Part II. Fabricating Comedy and the Fate of the Fool in the Age of Reform -- 5. Making Comedy Whole -- 6. Biases in Precedent -- 7. Sanitation and Unity -- 8. Comedic Plot, Comic Time, Dramatic Time -- Part III. Life, Theater, and the Restoration of the Fool -- 9. Policey and the Legitimacy of Delight -- 10. The Place of Laughter in Life -- 11. National Literature I: Improvement -- 12. National Literature II: Custom -- Part IV. The Vitality of Folly in Goethe’s Faust and Kleist’s Jug -- 13. Faust I: Setting the Stage -- 14. Faust II: Mirroring and Framing in the Form of Faust -- 15. Faust III: The Diabolical Comic -- 16. Antinomies of the Classical: On Kleist’s Broken Jug -- Postlude -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Joel B. Lande’s Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted account of the origins of German theater by focusing on the misunderstood figure of the fool, whose spontaneous and impish jest captivated audiences, critics, and playwrights from the late sixteenth through the early nineteenth century. Lande radically expands the scope of literary historical inquiry, showing that the fool was not a distraction from attempts to establish a serious dramatic tradition in the German language. Instead, the fool was both a fixture on the stage and a nearly ubiquitous theme in an array of literary critical, governmental, moral-philosophical, and medical discourses, figuring centrally in broad-based efforts to assign laughter a proper time, place, and proportion in society.Persistence of Folly reveals the fool as a cornerstone of the dynamic process that culminated in the works of Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist. By reorienting the history of German theater, Lande’s work conclusively shows that the highpoint of German literature around 1800 did not eliminate irreverent jest in the name of serious drama, but instead developed highly refined techniques for integrating the comic tradition of the stage fool. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) Fools and jesters in literature. German drama (Comedy) History and criticism. German drama 18th century History and criticism. German drama Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. German Studies. Literary Studies. Performing Arts & Drama. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. bisacsh the fool, theater, Lessing, Goethe, Kleist, chorus of comedy, comic tradition, comedy/comic, stage fool. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606553 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Stud. 2018 English 9783110604184 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2018 9783110603187 ZDB-23-DKU https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501727122?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501727122 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501727122/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Fool at Play -- 1. Birth of a Comic Form -- 2. Strolling Players and the Advent of the Fool -- 3. Practice of Stage Interaction -- 4. The Fool’s Space and Time -- Part II. Fabricating Comedy and the Fate of the Fool in the Age of Reform -- 5. Making Comedy Whole -- 6. Biases in Precedent -- 7. Sanitation and Unity -- 8. Comedic Plot, Comic Time, Dramatic Time -- Part III. Life, Theater, and the Restoration of the Fool -- 9. Policey and the Legitimacy of Delight -- 10. The Place of Laughter in Life -- 11. National Literature I: Improvement -- 12. National Literature II: Custom -- Part IV. The Vitality of Folly in Goethe’s Faust and Kleist’s Jug -- 13. Faust I: Setting the Stage -- 14. Faust II: Mirroring and Framing in the Form of Faust -- 15. Faust III: The Diabolical Comic -- 16. Antinomies of the Classical: On Kleist’s Broken Jug -- Postlude -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Fool at Play -- 1. Birth of a Comic Form -- 2. Strolling Players and the Advent of the Fool -- 3. Practice of Stage Interaction -- 4. The Fool’s Space and Time -- Part II. Fabricating Comedy and the Fate of the Fool in the Age of Reform -- 5. Making Comedy Whole -- 6. Biases in Precedent -- 7. Sanitation and Unity -- 8. Comedic Plot, Comic Time, Dramatic Time -- Part III. Life, Theater, and the Restoration of the Fool -- 9. Policey and the Legitimacy of Delight -- 10. The Place of Laughter in Life -- 11. National Literature I: Improvement -- 12. National Literature II: Custom -- Part IV. The Vitality of Folly in Goethe’s Faust and Kleist’s Jug -- 13. Faust I: Setting the Stage -- 14. Faust II: Mirroring and Framing in the Form of Faust -- 15. Faust III: The Diabolical Comic -- 16. Antinomies of the Classical: On Kleist’s Broken Jug -- Postlude -- Bibliography -- Index |
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