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...W. Cary Maxwell Schiller and Wagner: A Study of their Dramatic Theory and Technique . By Graves Marie Haefliger . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1938 . Pp. 128 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 154 The South Atlantic Quarterly Schiller and Wagner...

...; Schiller, with his romantic treatment of the Jeanne d Arc theme in Jungfrau von Orleans, which reflects the German romantic movement of the eighteenth century; George Bernard Shaw s Saint Joan, written ostensibly to give a more exact account of Joan s life, but also having other possible reasons for being...

... that promise to illuminate the mundane world not through mere knowledge but through the attainment of a higher or more complete mode of ethical being. It is in Schiller, however, that we find the move to identify this more complete mode of being with the aesthetic. The unfamiliarity of this re­ constructed...

... and ranks Goethe with Shakespeare, Calderon, Corneille, and the ancient Greek dramatists Sophocles more than any other whom he holds up as the absolute standards and unquestioned models of excellence for all times.3 But even more frequently the name of Goethe is coupled with that of Schiller when apparently...

... and sandwiches weaving his way securely in and out, formed an unforgettable picture. And this was Weimar, the city of Goethe and Schiller and of the diminutive court of Duke Carl August! Weimar had been to me a city of dreams, of quaint beings in eighteenth century powder and crinoline whose movements were more...

... is a sol­ dier and nothing else. Schiller s idea of Joan as a magnif­ icent superwoman, for all its raging romance, has a solid basis of fact. For it was her womanly sensitiveness to the suffering of her country, her compassion exalted to the highest degree, that opened Joan s pure soul to visions...

... to leave him in grateful solitude. But there is no bitterness in his attitude toward an uncongenial world. His criticisms of Schiller and Hebbel, unjust as they fre­ quently are, are prompted by a sincere belief that they had built on false foundations. His pictures of village life, in the cheerful story...

.... His literary contemporaries, however, recognized at once the tremendous possibilities of the motif, and their urging prevailed upon Goethe to take up the task again and again. In the 1790 s Schiller exercised the most wholesome influence upon Goethe and encouraged him to finish Faust. Schiller...

... integrating the contradictory functions ofhis project into a single act. Oratory turns self-assertion (or real talking) and self-annihilation (or real listening) into what Schiller called reciprocal ac­ tions, his term for the relation between the formal and the sensuous drive within the paradoxical ideal...

..., including houses. The result is what has been called private affluence and public squalor,’ or new homes reachable only over dirt roads’’ (ibid., 986). 3 Peggy Levitt and Nina Glick Schiller, ‘‘Conceptualizing Simultaneity: A Transnational Social Field Perspective on Society International...

... of the state, spending several rainy days sitting in front of the fire at his hotel and working on a review of Humanism by F. C. S. Schiller, an Oxford don of distinguished intellect with whom William was exchanging ideas that seeded the philosophy of pragmatism. (Schiller s book had come under attack. Poor S...

... in the company of Goethe and Schiller in this regard feeling, reason, and capacity for ac­ tion are united in a noble harmony. By avoiding sentimentality and scepticism and by dint of self-control and industry she has attained much of the noble simplicity, quiet grandeur, and repose of character aimed...

... into contemplative organs of praxis. Marx s reintegration of the senses into the contemplative life ofthe mind is unmistakably resonant with Schiller s aesthetic anthropology, which in like manner attempted to reconcile sensuous nature with rationality. Schiller s aesthetic-play drive, as a felicitous amalgamation...

... until 1833 and translations from the German were few, the educated society with whom he associated many of its members scholars and literary men no doubt included persons from whom he could have drawn information about German writers. Carlyle s critical biography of Schiller, which appeared in serial...

..., the book (London: Butterworths, 1963. 40s) represents the work of eight British scholars, two Germans, one Hollander, and two Americans, under the editorship of Professor August Closs of the University of Bristol. The subject matter covers such themes as Schiller s second thoughts in revising his poems...

..., preempt, accommodate, comprehend, and gener- ally upstage a political revolution whose defining feature was increasingly thought to be its founding violence: the slide from 1789 to 1793. According Dead Right 377 to this ideology, from Schiller...

... and intensity of the inner life. He hopes that Klinger coming after an age of deca­ dence may with his Beethoven herald a new age of great sculpture. The address on Goethe points out similarities between this great man s spirit and that of the American nation, while the Schiller address stresses the best...

... with a feeble discussion of the failure of his persona as a letter writer, but it moves into a fascinating comparison of Burns s Edinburgh experience to Schiller s discussion of the social effects of sentimentalism in Naive and Sentimental Poetry. McGuirk sees Burns s songs as the apogee of his work because...

... to the Jena Social Theory Colloquium, Institut für Soziologie der Freidrich Schiller Universitat , Jena , May 2 . Sparke Matthew . 2005 . In the Space of Theory: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Thomas Peter . 2018...

... of eighteenth-century domestic tragedy reveals, from The London Merchant to Schiller s Kabale und Liebe (1784) by way of Less­ ing s two bourgeois tragedies (Miss Sara Sampson [1755] and Emilia Galotti [1772]) and Diderot s two bourgeois plays (Le Fils Naturel [1757] and Le Pere de Famille [1758 to cite...