Schiller's Literary Prose Works
New Translations and Critical Essays
Edited by Jeffrey L. High
Friedrich Schiller was a dramatist and poet for the ages, an important aesthetic theorist, and among Germany's first historians. But he left few works of literary prose behind -- seven short tales and fragments, almost all from early in his career -- and although they include some of his most resonant in his own time, they are largely overlooked today. Several of the pieces -- which include The Ghost-Seer, A Magnanimous Act from Most Recent History, The Criminal of Lost Honor: A True Story, A Curious Example of Female Vengeance, Duke Alba at Breakfast at Castle Rudolstadt, Play of Fate: A Fragment of a True Story, and Haoh-Kiöh-Tschuen -- have never before appeared in English translation. But they are a seminal link in the evolution of the then-nascent German novella. They exhibit the anthropological curiosity and moral confusion that made Schiller's first drama, The Robbers, a sensation, demonstrating an original artistry that justifies consideration of scholars and students today, on the eve of the 250th anniversary of his birth. New translations of the seven works appear here together with introductory critical essays.
Contributors: Jeffrey L. High, Nicholas Martin, Otto W. Johnston, Gail K. Hart, Dennis F. Mahoney; Translators: Francis Lamport, Ian Codding, Jeffrey L. High, Ellis Dye, Edward T. Larkin, Carrie Ann Collenberg
Jeffrey L. High is associate professor at California State University Long Beach.
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DETAILS
Pages: 301 Size: 9 x 6 in 13 digit ISBN: 9781571133847
Binding: Hardback First published: 01/Nov/2008 Price: 65.00 USD / 35.00 GBP
Imprint: Camden House Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Subject: German Literature
BIC class: AVH
STATUS: Print on demand (please allow 3 weeks for delivery)
Details updated on 09/02/2010
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Contents
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Foreword Lesley Sharpe
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Preface Jeffrey L. High
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Introduction: Schiller and the German Novella Jeffrey L. High
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A Magnanimous Act from Most Recent History (Friedrich Schiller, 1782)) Ian Codding
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A Remarkable Example of Female Revenge (Taken from a Manuscript by the Late Denis Diderot) (Friedrich Schiller, 1785) Ellis Dye
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The Criminal of Lost Honor. A True Story (Friedrich Schiller, 1786) Jeffrey L. High
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Duke Alba's Breakfast at Rudolstadt Castle in the Year 1547 (Friedrich Schiller, 1788) Ian Codding
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Game of Fate. A Fragment of a True Story (Friedrich Schiller, 1789) Edward T. Larkin
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The Spiritualist. From the Memoirs of Count von O** (Friedrich Schiller, 1789) F. J. Lamport
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The Philosophical Dialog from The Spiritualist (Friedrich Schiller, 1789) Helen Kilgallen
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Haoh-Kiöh-Tschuen (The Tale of a Perfect Match) (Friedrich Schiller, 1800-1801) Carrie Collenberg
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(A fragment of) A True Story (from most recent history): The Truth in Schiller's Literary Prose Works Jeffrey L. High
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Playing with the Rules: Schiller's Experiments in Short Prose Fiction, 1782-1789 Nicholas Martin
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Diderot and Schiller's "Revenge": From Parisian Parody to German Moral Fiction Otto W. Johnston
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True Crime and Criminal Truth: Schiller's "The Criminal of Lost Honor" Professor Gail K. Hart
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Der Geisterseher: A Princely Experiment or, the Creation of a "Spiritualist" Dennis Mahoney
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Chronological List of Schiller's Literary Prose Works in English Translation Tanya Doss
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