Peter Szondi was a professor of Comparative Literature at the Free University in Berlin. He authored seminal works on the theory of drama, literary hermeneutics, and on the poets Hölderlin and Celan. His scholarship offered groundbreaking insights into the nature of dramatic literature and the interpretation of poetry.
The book provides a profound analysis of modern drama's evolution from the Renaissance to contemporary times. Szondi presents a unique perspective on the significant transformation of dramatic form that occurred in the late nineteenth century, exploring how these changes have shaped the art of theater.
Focusing on the evolution of hermeneutics, this English edition of Peter Szondi's lectures offers a clear analysis of German Enlightenment theorists. Szondi's insights into the "material theory" of interpretation provide a valuable perspective for understanding literary criticism. Translated by Martha Woodmansee and featuring a foreword by Joel Weinsheimer, this work makes Szondi's significant contributions accessible to an English-speaking audience, highlighting his status as a prominent postwar literary critic.
Peter Szondi's Celan Studies marks the beginning of critical work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second half of the twentieth century. schovat popis
This is a succinct and elegant argument for the specificity of a philosophy of tragedy, as opposed to a poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle.
An analysis of the emergence and development of modern drama from the Renaissance to the present day. This brief but wide-ranging book discusses the work of such playwrights as Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Satre, Brecht and Wilder.