Dürrenmatt und die Weltliteratur, Dürrenmatt in der Weltliteratur
By: Veronique Liard, Marion George (Hg.).
Publisher: M. Meidenbauer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: München
Language: ger
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9783899752434
Subjects: Literature; Criticism and interpretation; Knowledge
Other titles: Dürrenmatt in der Weltliteratur
Description: "In the 1950s and 60s, Friedrich Dürrenmatt bestrode the German-speaking theatrical world - and that of mainland Europe as a whole - like a colossus. He attained a status little short of sainthood amongst the literary public, underscored by numerous literary prizes, honorary doctorates and the publication of his collected works. The ninetieth birthday, to be celebrated in 2011, of the author, who died in 1992, appears, given the distance created by the twenty years which have elapsed, to be an appropriate occasion to examine the connection in his work between critical distance from the tradition and critical inscription into the literary narrative of that very same tradition. Literary theorists and critics from Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Germany and France raise in their contributions the issue of Dürrenmatt's relationships with the European history of ideas, the Ancient World, Shakespeare, Cervantes and German-language literature from the Enlightenment to the 'Vormärz', as well as his place in the literary pantheon post-1945. They show how Dürrenmatt managed to reactivate the tradition through critical writings targeted at his era, and how he fought right into his late prose period to champion the cause of the critically reflective individual's autonomous right of freedom of interpretation"--Publisher's description, back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Dürrenmatt, Barth und Kierkegaard / Peter Rusterholz; title: "Und vielleicht treffe ich mich ... mit Herrn Nietzsche" - Dürrenmatt und Friedrich Nietzsche / Peter Gasser; title: Über das Ende des Textes hinausschreiben : das Beispiel Ödipus / Rosmarie Zeller; title: Von Platon, Sokrates, Aristophanes - und Xanthippe : Friedrich Dürrenmatts "Der Tod des Sokrates" / Heinz-Günther Nesselrath; title: Antikerezeption bei Friedrich Dürrenmatt : die Komödie 'Romulus der Grosse' und ihr literaturgeschichtlicher Kontext / Volker Riedel; title: "Halb Schakespeare, halb Dürrenmatt" - Friedrich Dürrenmatts "Titus Andronicus" / Anne-Kathrin Marquardt; title: Don Quijote als Gleichnis des mutigen Menschen : ein hermeneutischer Zugang zu Dürrenmatts Cervantes-Rezeption / Pierre Bühler; title: Dürrenmatts Dialog mit Schiller / Veronique Liard; title: Lesarten - Goethes "Urfaust" bei Brecht und Dürrenmatt / Marion George; title: "Der grässliche Fatalismus der Geschichte" : Friedrich Dürrenmatt und Georg Büchner / Ulrich Weber; title: Krimis, Antikrimis, "Gedanken"-Krimis : wie Friedrich Dürrenmatt sich in ein gering geschätztes Genre einschrieb / Jochen Vogt; title: Dürrenmatt und Hacks : das westliche und das östliche Modell des komischen Dramas nach 1945 / Bernhard Spies; title: Dürrenmatt und das Welttheater / Sydney G. Donald.