Romantic drama / edited by Gerald Gillespie.

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Gillespie, Gerald, 1933-

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TextSeries: Comparative history of literatures in European languages ; v. 9.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1994.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 516 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789027277114
9027277117
9781556196003
1556196008
9630548445
9789630548441

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Romantic drama.DDC classification:

809.2/9145 20

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PN1851 .R66 1994eb

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24.02
17.86
EC 5100
EC 7504
EC 7505
17.82
17.92
18.00

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Contents:

The Italian Romantic Drama in Its European Context / Marvin Carlson -- Romantic Drama in the Hispanic World: The Picturesque Mode / John Dowling -- Polish Romantic Drama in Perspective / Harold B. Segel -- Russian Romantic Drama: The Case of Griboedov / Alexander Gershkovich -- Romanticism in Genres of Drama in Bohemia / Hana Voisine-Jechova -- Romantic Drama in Hungary / Mihaly Szegedy-Maszak -- Romantic Trends in Scandinavian Drama / George Bisztray -- From Dark into Light: Nineteenth-Century Romantic Drama in English-Canada / Richard Plant -- Nineteenth-Century American Drama: A Romantic Quest / Dinnah Pladott -- The Romantic Theater in Hispanic America / Emilio Carilla -- Classic Vision in the Romantic Age: Goethe's Reconstitution of European Drama in Faust II / Gerald Gillespie -- Romantic Irony and Biedermeier Tragicomedy / Virgil Nemoianu -- Romantic Cosmic Drama / Martin Esslin -- The Past Is Prologue: The Romantic Heritage in Dramatic Literature / Gerald Gillespie.

Summary: In Romantic Drama, three dozen comparatists join forces for a supranational, crosscultural 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.Summary: 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 aspires to skirt the pitfalls of simplistic genetic or teleological thinking.Summary: It does not treat Romanticism as a limited "period" dominated by some construed singular master-ethos or dialectic; rather, it follows the literary patterns and dynamics of Romanticism as a flow of interactive currents across geocultural frontiers.Summary: Finally, this involves recognizing the Romantic heritage in literary phenomena reaching into our own times. Thus the Romantic celebration of imagination, creation of a theater of the mind, experience of intertextuality, dissolving of generic boundaries, and embrace of "myth" as a challenge to older "history" figure among the important topics, as do Romantic foreshadowings of Symbolist, Existentialist, and Absurdist drama.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-487)-and indexes.

In Romantic Drama, three dozen comparatists join forces for a supranational, crosscultural 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 aspires to skirt the pitfalls of simplistic genetic or teleological thinking.

It does not treat Romanticism as a limited "period" dominated by some construed singular master-ethos or dialectic; rather, it follows the literary patterns and dynamics of Romanticism as a flow of interactive currents across geocultural frontiers.

Finally, this involves recognizing the Romantic heritage in literary phenomena reaching into our own times. Thus the Romantic celebration of imagination, creation of a theater of the mind, experience of intertextuality, dissolving of generic boundaries, and embrace of "myth" as a challenge to older "history" figure among the important topics, as do Romantic foreshadowings of Symbolist, Existentialist, and Absurdist drama.

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