Lessing's Nathan the Wise and the critics, 1779-1991
著者
書誌事項
Lessing's Nathan the Wise and the critics, 1779-1991
（Literary criticism in perspective）
Camden House, c1993
1st ed
- タイトル別名
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Lessing's Nathan the Wise
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [93]-116) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) is the major figure of the German Enlightenment. His ideas and work were groundbreaking: he introduced Shakespeare into German literature, and his literary criticism and dramas are a significant contribution to world literature.
Despite Lessing's efforts to write clearly, he has been interpreted in many different ways by his critics. He has been praised as a pioneer of German literature, yet his poetic talent hasbeen questioned by some, and his beliefs attacked. Eckardt's Lessing's 'Nathan the Wise' and the Critics: 1779-1991 offers a highly readable synopsis of Lessing criticism. The special focus is on his famous play about religious tolerance, Nathan the Wise (1779). For the first time students and scholars of Lessing and of literary history in general can find a concise presentation of the trends in Lessing criticism. The study treats the critical opinions of prominent critics, and also provides a chronological bibliography of the secondary literature and a detailed index.
目次
- The contemporary reception - Lessing criticism before 1779, reviews of "Nathan the Wise", theatrical responses, after Lessing's death
- Friedrich Schlegel and Friedrich Schiller - Schlegel, Schiller
- the 19th century - the historical school, positivism, geistesgeschichte
- 1879 and 1881 Lessing and the Jews - Jewish critics, anti-Semitic criticism
- from Empire to Republic - Franz Mehring, the First World War, before Hitler's seizure of power
- 1933-1945 - National Socialist criticism, the "Volksfront"
- after 1945 - reconciliation with the past, form, function, language, and theology, utopia, the bourgeois element, Lessing and Brecht, the East German criticism, Lessing and the consequences, where to go from here.
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