Georg Büchner
Subtitle: the major works, contexts, criticism
By: edited by Matthew Wilson Smith ; texts of the major works translated by Henry J. Schmidt
Contributors: Smith, Matthew Wilson; Schmidt, Henry J.
Edition: First edition.
Series: A Norton critical edition
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780393933512
Subjects: Translations into English; Criticism and interpretation
Work titles: Works
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The texts of Büchner's major works. The Hessian messenger ; Danton's death ; Lenz ; Leonce and Lena ; Woyzeck : a reconstruction ; The drafts ; Introduction to On cranial nerves; title: Selected letters; title: Impression of the Giessen student Georg Büchner / Karl Vogt; title: Wanted poster; title: From Pastor Oberlin's diary / Johann Friedrich Oberlin; title: From the legal accountability of the murderer Johann Christian Woyzeck / Johann Christian August Clarus; title: From diary account of Büchner's last days / Caroline Schulz; title: Forebears, descendants, and contemporary kin : Büchner and literary tradition / Herbert Lindenberger; title: Georg Büchner : a selective stage history / Laura Ginters; title: The Hessian messenger in the political context of 1964 / Hans Magnus Enzensberger; title: Büchner and rhetoric / Victor Brombert; title: On Danton's death / Bertolt Brecht; title: Skepticism, ideology, and history in Büchner's Dantons Tod / Edward McInnes; title: Women, death, and revolution / Henry J. Schmidt; title: On Max Reinhardt's Danton's death / Ernst Stern; title: On Orson Welles's Danton's death / John Houseman; title: Wilson, Danton, and me / Richard Thomas; title: Büchner, Lenz / Erika Swales; title: Leonce and Lena : tragic comedy by Georg Büchner / Thomas Bernhard; title: Büchner, Leonce und Lena / Andrew Webber; title: On Woyzeck / Rainer Maria Rilke; title: Woyzeck and Lear / George Steiner; title: Some aspects of imagery in Büchner's Woyzeck / John A. McCarthy; title: Natur and kunst / John Reddick; title: Clarus, Woyzeck, and the politics of accountability / Peter Schwartz; title: The meridian / Paul Celan; title: Speaking of Büchner / Christa Wolf; title: The wounded Woyzeck / Heiner Müller; title: Breaking the body / Durs Grünbein; title: Georg Büchner : a chronology.