Author: John M. SpalekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Ernst Toller and His Critics
Author: John M. SpalekErnst Toller and German Society
Author: Robert EllisPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611476364
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Between 1918 and 1939 Ernst Toller was one of Germany’s prominent left-wing intellectuals, He was a leader of the German Revolution of 1918-1919, famous playwright of the 1920s and best known spokesman against Hitler during the 1930s, writing about a country unsuccessfully balancing between survival and annihilation.
Ernst Toller and German Society
Author: Robert ELLISPublisher:
ISBN: 9781683930686
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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He was a German
Author: Richard DovePublisher: Libris
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Playwright, socialist revolutionary, and political activist and organizer, Ernst Toller was one of the most celebrated German authors known to the English-speaking world from the 1920s to the Second World War.
Anarchism in the Dramas of Ernst Toller
Author: Michael OssarPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438415257
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This study shows how politics and art intermingled in the life and works of one of the most renowned playwrights of German Expressionism, a man who was in many senses paradigmatic of the non-communist Left in the Weimar Republic. Toller sought to preserve the sanctity of the individual against collectivist assaults from the Right and from the Left, but at the same time to meet the needs of a complex society. Ossar demonstrates that the playwright arrived at solutions that were anarchist in nature, deriving from a long European tradition. This is the first in-depth book-length study of Toller and his plays published in English.
The Plays of Ernst Toller
Author: Cecil DaviesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134361858
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
This book is the fullest and most detailed study yet published in English of Ernst Toller's plays and their most significant productions. In particular the productions directed by Karl-Heinz Martin, Jurgen Fehling and Erwin Piscator are closely analyzed and the author demonstrates how, brilliant though they were, they obscured or even distorted Toller's intentions. The plays are seen as eminently stage-worthy while worth lies in Toller's use of language, both in prose and inverse. The neglected puppet-play The Scorned Lovers' Revenge is analyzed from a new perspective in the light, both of its language and its sexual theme, so important in Toller's writings as a whole. The reader is led to appreciate why Toller was regarded as the most outstanding German dramatist of his generation until, after his death in 1939 his reputation was overlaid by that of Brecht. This book should do much to restore Toller to his proper place in theatre history.
Comparative Criticism: Volume 1, The Literary Canon
Author: Elinor S. ShafferPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521222969
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This is a yearbook sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association which promotes comparative literary studies.
German Expressionist Plays: Gottfried Benn, Georg Kaiser, Ernst Toller, and Others
Author: Ernst SchurerPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826409508
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This volume in The German Library includes the following authors and plays, which best represent the Expressionist movement of the early 20th century: -- Georg Kaiser: Gas I and Gas II -- Ernst Toller: Masses and Man -- Gottfried Benn: Ithaka -- Oskar Kokoschka: Murderer the Women's Hope -- Carl Sternheim: The Bloomers -- Walter Hasenclever: The Son>
Culture and Society in the Weimar Republic
Author: Keith BullivantPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719006890
Category : German literature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Encyclopedia of German Literature
Author: Matthias KonzettPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113594122X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.