[PDF] Georg Buchner eBook

Author : Karoline Gritzner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1317332989

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'Everyone's an abyss. You get dizzy if you look down.' -- Woyzeck Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck was left unfinished at the time of its author’s death in 1837, but the play is now widely recognised as the first ‘modern’ drama in the history of European theatre. Its fragmentary form and critical socio-political content have had a lasting influence on artists, readers and audiences to this day. The abuse, exploitation, and disenfranchisement that Woyzeck’s titular protagonist endures find their mirror in his own murderous outburst. But beyond that, they also echo in the flux and confusion of the various drafts and versions in which the play has been presented since its emergence. In this fresh engagement with a modern classic, Gritzner examines the revolutionary dimensions of Büchner’s political and creative practice, as well as modern approaches to the play in performance.

Author : Howard Colyer
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1326482955

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A classic of the German stage adapted as a monologue. Though written in 1837 Woyzeck is widely regarded as the first Expressionist play due to its splintered and fragmentary nature. Here it is presented in a new form.

Author : Georg Buchner
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0140445862

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Collected in this volume are dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast. Also included are selections from Buchner's letters and philosophical writings.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004341633

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Georg Büchner: Contemporary Perspectives examines the continuing relevance of Büchner in the early twenty-first century in terms of politics, science, philosophy, aesthetics, cultural studies and performance studies. It situates Büchner’s interdisciplinary work in relation to the philosophical, scientific and religious discourses of his time, while also investigating the ways in which Büchner’s intersectional writings anticipated – sometimes uncannily – questions and problems which were to become central concerns in modernism and after. The nineteen essays in the book, some in English and some in German, uniquely combine close readings of individual passages and images with wide-ranging intertextual comparisons, linking Büchner to more than twenty-five writers, thinkers and theoreticians from his time and ours. Der Band Georg Büchner: Contemporary Perspectives beschäftigt sich mit Büchners anhaltender Aktualität in den Bereichen Politik, Naturwissenschaft, Philosophie, Ästhetik, Kulturwissenschaft und Theater. Er setzt Büchners interdisziplinäres Werk in Beziehung zu den philosophischen, naturwissenschaftlichen und religiösen Themen seiner Zeit, untersucht aber auch wie sein Schreiben auf manchmal verblüffende Weise Fragen und Probleme vorwegnimmt, die für die Moderne und die Nachmoderne bis zum heutigen Tag zentral werden sollten. Die neunzehn, teils auf Englisch, teils auf Deutsch verfassten Beiträge zeichnen sich dadurch aus, dass sie eingehende Einzelinterpretationen bestimmter Werkstellen mit weitreichenden intertextuellen Bezügen zu mehr als 25 SchriftstellerInnen, KünstlerInnen, DenkerInnen, und TheoretikerInnen verbinden.

Author : Georg Büchner
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780393933512

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Few writers have transformed literature and theatre so dramatically as Georg Bèuchner. Each text is accompanied by explanatory annotations. The introduction examines the complexities of Bèuchner's short life.

Author : David G. Richards
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781571132208

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This is the first extensive survey and analysis of the criticism of Woyzeck from the nineteenth century to the present."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Georg Büchner
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1408135604

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This is your rhetoric translated. These wretches, these executioners, the guillotine are your speeches come to life. You have built your doctrines out of human heads... Why should an event that transforms the whole of humanity not advance through blood? 1794: the French Revolution reaches its climax. After a series of bloody purges the life-loving, volatile Danton is tormented by his part in the killing. His political rival, the driven, ascetic Robespierre, decides Danton's fate. A titanic struggle begins. Once friends who wanted to change the world, now one stands for compromise the other for ideological purity as the guillotine awaits. A revolutionary himself, George Büchner was 21 when he wrote the play in 1835, while hiding from the police. With its hair-raising on-rush of scenes and vivid dramatisation of complex, visionary characters, Danton's Death has a claim to be the greatest political tragedy ever written. In his newly-revised translation, Howard Brenton captures Büchner's exhilarating energy as Danton struggles to avoid his inexorable fall.

Author : A. H. J. Knight
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000768074

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Originally published in 1951 this full length study gives an account of Büchner’s life and personality, together with an account of his three plays, his unfinished short story, his scientific publications and his translations of Hugo.

Author : Georg Büchner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780192836502

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This collection of Büchner's three theatrical works includes Danton's Death, his great play about the French Revolution, Leonce and Lena, his "black" romantic comedy and Woyzeck, the unfinished work on which Alban Berg based his famous opera. All three works remained virtually unknown for half a century but today have found an important place in the modern repertory.