Author: Kuhn, Anna K. & Wright, Barbara D.; editors:
Title: Playing for Stakes : German-Language Drama in Social Context. Essays in Honor of Herbert Lederer
Description: Oxford / Providence, Berg, (1994). orig.boards. 22x14cm, x, 253 pp. Minor rubbing, small label to rear cover, VG. ¶ Contains 13 papers. Includes: H.J. Schmidt "Naturalism & Melodrama: Gerhart Hauptmann's 'Die Weber' "; H. Steger "Expressionist Melodrama & the Search for New Forms of Expression"; R. Grimm " 'The Ghost Sonata' & Strindberg's Influence on Modern European Theater"; L.A.Lensing "Moving Pictures: Photographs & Photographic Meaning in Karl Kraus's 'The Last Days of Humanity' "; B. Elling "Theater as the Conscience of Society: Erwin Piscator's 'Interim Achievement' "; B.D. Wright "The New Woman of the Twenties: 'Hoppla! Such is Life' & 'The Merry Vineyard' "; A.K. Kuhn " Myth, Matriarchy, Mannerphantasie: Rereading Grillparzer's 'Libussa' "; G. H. Weiss "Johann Nestroy: The Revolution on the Stage"; D.G. Daviau " Arthur Schnitzler's 'The Way to the Pond': The Dramatic Summing Up"; E. Neuse & R. Ley "The Playwright as Ideologue: Franz Xavier Kroetz' 'Maria Magdalena' "; E. Schwarz " 'Das geht net so weida': Herbert Berger's ' Nasty Plays' "; G.W. Reinhardt "Elfriede Jelinek's 'Burgtheater': Language as Exorcism"; etc.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, German Literature, Theater, Theatre, Drama, Social History, , ,