Philip Ward

Hofmannsthal and Greek Myth: Expression and Performance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Throughout his career the Austrian dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) turned repeatedly to Greek myth for his material. This book sets out to uncover his reasons for doing so. The results provide not only new insights into his work but a case-study in the reception of the Classics in fin-de-siècle Vienna. Ranging widely over Hofmannsthal's achievements in drama, opera and the dance, this study is the first to provide a solid context for his 'Greek' works, both in the intellectual debates of his time - on such issues as psychoanalysis, feminism and the 'crisis of language' - and in contemporary performance practice.

Produktdetails

• Britische und Irische Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur / British and Irish Studies in Ger 24
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 76644
• Neuausg.
• Seitenzahl: 295
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 150mm x 220mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9783906766447
• ISBN-10: 3906766446
• Artikelnr.: 27555884

Autorenporträt

The Author: Philip Marshall Ward studied at the universities of Oxford, London, Munich, Wales, and Cambridge, where he obtained his doctorate. He currently works in the Research Service of the House of Commons Library. The author of several articles on literature, he is also a theatre and opera translator, whose adaptation of Wedekind's Franziska was premiered at the Gate Theatre, London, in 1998.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Myth, Hofmannsthal and the Greeks - 'Tragedy' in 1900: translation, rewriting and performance - Ödipus und die Sphinx and the mythologisation of the psyche - Elektra and the representation of women's behaviour through myth - Greek myth, 'pantomime' and non-verbal expression - The Orient and Greek myth - 'Mythological opera' as expression and performance.

Rezensionen

"Bereichernd ist die Öffnung des Themas auf den West-Ost-Diskurs, den Ward im Werk H.s sehr gründlich aufarbeitet und als Basis der Antikedeutung perspektiviert [...] Ein anspruchvolles, wichtiges Buch!" (Mathias Mayer, Germanistik)