Taken by the Devil

Taken by the Devil

Author: Margaret Anne Notley

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2019-10-29

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0190069864

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Censorship had an extraordinary impact on Alban Berg's opera Lulu, composed by the Austrian during the politically tumultuous years spanning 1929 to 1935. Based on two plays by Frank Wedekind that were repeatedly banned from publishing and performing up until the end of World War I, thelibretto was in turn censored by Berg himself when he submitted it to authorities in Nazi Germany in 1934. When Berg died before the opera was debuted the next season, the third act was censored by his widow, Helene, and his former teacher, Arnold Schoenberg.In "Taken By the Devil", author Margaret Notley uncovers the unusual and uniquely generative role of censorship throughout the lifecycle of Berg's great opera. Placing the opera and its source material in a wider cultural context, Notley provides close readings of the opera's libretto and score toreveal the precise techniques employed by the composer in negotiating the censors. She goes on to explore the ways Berg chose to augment rather than flatten the discrepancies between various performances of the earlier plays and the opera itself, adding further dimensions of interpretation to thework. Elegantly readable, "Taken by the Devil" is the most meticulously researched and nuanced study of Lulu to date, and illuminates the process of politically-driven censorship of theater, music, and the arts during the tumultuous early twentieth century.


Goethe's Faust

Goethe's Faust

Author: Eudo C. Mason

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 0520346122

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.


Goethe's Faust

Goethe's Faust

Author: John R. Williams

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-01-30

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1000761142

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Originally published in 1987, this is a thorough and lucid introduction and commentary to the whole of Goethe’s Faust. It gives the student of German and European literature valuable insights into the most important work of Germany’s foremost poet. German quotations are translated or paraphrased in English and a detailed knowledge of German literature is not assumed. The book traces Goethe’s work on the play over 60 years of his creative career and surveys its critical reception over the 200 years since its first appearance. Part One is analysed as a mimetic tragedy, Part Two as an historical and cultural profile of Goethe’s own times. The commentary guides the reader carefully through its subtleties and multi-layered references and provides a broad and coherent structure for the overall understanding of the work. It suggests provocative interpretations of some figures and episodes in Part Two and places renewed emphasis on parts of the work that often receive relatively little attention. An appendix surveys the metres and verse forms of the play.


Song Lyrics

Song Lyrics

Author: Michel Montecrossa

Publisher: Mirapuri-Verlag

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 677

ISBN-13: 3922800831

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The Classical Centre

The Classical Centre

Author: T. J. Reed

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-01-31

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1000768376

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Originally published in 1980, this book examines the nature and significance of Classicism as a literary phenomenon and relates the beginnings of the German variety to the search for a national identity in the circumstances of a politically fragmented eighteenth century Germany. It surveys the pre-classical scene, traces the intellectual currents and the literary forms and material which Classicism was to synthesise, and presents its theoretical basis. The major works of Goethe and Schiller in the decade of their partnership are analysed. Their response to political events is placed in the contemporary context and the divergences which challenge Classicism are discussed.


The Wildness Pleases (Routledge Revivals)

The Wildness Pleases (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Christopher Thacker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-05

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1317235835

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First published in 1983. This book charts the growth of Romanticism from the initial reactions to the authoritarian classicism of Louis XIV, through the ‘codification’ of the Sublime by Burke in the 1750s, to the fascination with mystery, fear and violence which dominated the writing of the late eighteenth century. The origins of the movement are found in the writings of Rousseau and admiration for the ‘noble savage’, the development of the landscape garden, discoveries in the South Seas, new approaches to ‘primitive’ poetry and enthusiasm for gothic art and literature. These attitudes are contrasted with the more classical views of writers like Samuel Johnson.


Commodities of Desire

Commodities of Desire

Author: Christiane Schönfeld

Publisher: Camden House

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781571131980

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Commodities of Desire investigates the figure of the prostitute in modern German literature, from the Wilhelmine Empire to the Weimar Republic, and provides the social, legal and cultural contexts necessary for their interpretation.


Goethe Yearbook 17

Goethe Yearbook 17

Author: Daniel Purdy

Publisher: Camden House

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1571134255

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New articles on topics spanning the Age of Goethe, with a special section of fresh views of Goethe's Faust.


Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity

Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity

Author: O. Ashkenazi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-03-14

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1137010843

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In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous 'German-Jewish symbiosis' before the rise of Nazism, as well as a new framework for the understanding of the German 'national' film in the years leading to Hitler's regime.