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Hebbel's Prose Tragedies Mary Garland

Hebbel's Prose Tragedies By Mary Garland

Hebbel's Prose Tragedies by Mary Garland

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A study of the nineteenth-century German writer Friedrich Hebbel, concentrating on his tragedies in prose, and examining in particular the way in which the language is used to convey Hebbel's beliefs, attitudes and intellectual preoccupations and also the dramatic effects. The three tragedies Judith, Maria Magdalene and Agnes Bernauer are studied in turn.

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Hebbel's Prose Tragedies: An Investigation of the Aesthetic Aspect of Hebbel's Dramatic Language by Mary Garland

A study of the nineteenth-century German writer Friedrich Hebbel, concentrating on his tragedies in prose, and examining in particular the way in which the language is used to convey Hebbel's beliefs, attitudes and intellectual preoccupations and also the dramatic effects. The three tragedies Judith, Maria Magdalene and Agnes Bernauer are studied in turn.

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Judith: 2. Scope and setting; 3. The idea; 4. The temper of negation; 5. God and nature; 6. Sleep and dreams; 7. Character portrayal by image; 8. The Bible and the Apocryphal Book of Judith; Part II. Maria Magdalene: 9. Expository motifs; 10. The balance-sheet; 11. The emotional temper; 12. Ambivalent communication; Part III. Agnes Bernauer: 13. The background; 14. The concentric setting; 15. Variations on the Theme of Death; 16. Biblical motifs; 17. The symbolism of reality; 18. Variations on the Christ Motif in other works of Hebbel; Bibliography; Index.

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NLS9780521155212
9780521155212
0521155215
Hebbel's Prose Tragedies: An Investigation of the Aesthetic Aspect of Hebbel's Dramatic Language by Mary Garland
Mary Garland
Anglica Germanica Series 2
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2011-04-14
348
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