Commitment and compassion : essays on Georg Büchner : festschrift for Gerhard P. Knapp / / edited by Patrick Fortmann and Martha B. Helfer.

The writer, scientist, philosopher, and radical democrat Georg Büchner (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, Büchner produced a small but exceptionally rich body of work. This...

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Year of Publication:2012
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 81.
Physical Description:1 online resource (338 p.)
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Other title:Preliminary material /
Introduction: Georg Büchner’s Perpetual Contemporaneity /
“Man muß in socialen Dingen von einem absoluten Rechtsgrundsatz ausgehen”. Recht und Gesetz nach Büchner /
Danton’s Tod: Eine Relektüre /
Substance and Suffering in Danton’s Tod: The Payne Dialogue (III, 1) /
Lenz’ Doppelgesicht: Büchners Spaltung der Figur als Bedingung der Kohärenz der Erzählung /
The Aesthetic “Theology” of Büchner’s Lenz /
Mimesis of Everyday Life in the Kunstgespräch of Büchner’s Lenz: Realist Aesthetics between Anti-Ideal and Social Art /
Langeweile, Lebenskarriere und Literatur: Zu einer Figur poetischer Produktivität bei Büchner /
“Komm Leonce, halte mir einen Monolog, ich will zuhören”. Büchners eingestandener Stillstand /
Tactical Citation in Georg Büchner’s Leonce und Lena /
“Er ist ein interessanter casus, Subjekt Woyzeck”. Büchners Fallgeschichten /
Eine Anekdote aus “den englischen Blättern”: Büchner als Gegengeschichtsschreiber (am Beispiel seines Briefes vom 15. März 1836) /
Zu Volker Brauns ‘kreativer’ Rezeption von Büchner-Briefen /
“Where id was. . .”: Danton According to Georg Büchner, Stanisława Przybyszewska and Andrzej Wajda /
An den Grenzen der Konjekturalphilologie: Zu einigen offenen Fragen der Büchneredition /
Zwischen Überlieferung und Rezeption. Umdenken in der Woyzeck-Philologie. Zum Fragmentstatus von Büchners wirkungsmächtigstem Werk /
Summary:The writer, scientist, philosopher, and radical democrat Georg Büchner (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, Büchner 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 Büchner on the eve of his bicentenary birthday but also insert this untimely figure into discussions of the revolution-restoration dynamic and realism in poetics and politics.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1283543117
9786613855565
9401208077
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: edited by Patrick Fortmann and Martha B. Helfer.