A play that satirizes the political confusions of both youthful activists and middle-aged believers in gradual reform. Translated by A. Leslie Willson and Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
A play that satirizes the political confusions of both youthful activists and middle-aged believers in gradual reform. Translated by A. Leslie Willson...
Includes: Schleiermacher's "On the Different Methods of Translation;" Jean Paul's "School for Aesthetics;" Novalis's "Aphorisms and Fragments;" Schlegel's "Dialogue on Poetry and Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature;" Holderlin's "On the Process of the Poetic Mind;" von Kleist's "On the Marionette Theater;" Muller's "Twelve Lectures on Rhetoric;" von Humboldt's "On the Imagination;" Gorres's "The German Chapbooks;" and Grimm's "On The Origin of Language."
Includes: Schleiermacher's "On the Different Methods of Translation;" Jean Paul's "School for Aesthetics;" Novalis's "Aphorisms and Fragments;" Schleg...
These twelve essays, all in English, include studies on Shakespeare, Schiller, Goethe, Chamisso, Hauptmann, Mann, and Brach. The selection was made by the author himself, an eminent American Germanist recently retired from Yale University. Penetrating and precise, each essay achieves what he has attempted to make it, "an adventure in empathy, in critical distance, and in expression."
Originally published in 1966.
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These twelve essays, all in English, include studies on Shakespeare, Schiller, Goethe, Chamisso, Hauptmann, Mann, and Brach. The selection was made...
