Shakespeare as German Author

Reception, Translation Theory, and Cultural Transfer

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2018
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-36158-4 (ISBN)

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Shakespeare as German Author explores in particular the Bard’s reception in Germany 1760-1830 that witnessed the birth of modern German aesthetics and literary production. The volume highlights the connection between Shakespeare’s mind (“Geist Shakespeares”) and the German mind (“deutscher Geist”).

Shakespeare as German Author, edited by John McCarthy, revisits in particular the formative phase of German Shakespeare reception 1760-1830. Following a detailed introduction to the historical and theoretical parameters of an era in search of its own literary voice, six case studies examine Shakespeare’s catalytic role in reshaping German aesthetics and stage production. They illuminate what German speakers found so appealing (or off-putting) about Shakespeare’s spirit, consider how translating it nurtured new linguistic and aesthetic sensibilities, and reflect on its relationship to German Geist through translation and cultural transfer theory. In the process, they shed new light, e.g., on the rise of Hamlet to canonical status, the role of women translators, and why Titus Andronicus proved so influential in twentieth-century theater performance.

Contributors are: Lisa Beesley, Astrid Dröse, Johanna Hörnig, Till Kinzel, John A. McCarthy, Curtis L. Maughan, Monika Nenon, Christine Nilsson.

John A. McCarthy, Ph.D. (1972), SUNY-Buffalo, is Professor of German & Comparative Literature emeritus at Vanderbilt University (Nashville TN). He has published 15 books, most recently The Early History of Embodied Cognition (Brill, 2016), and numerous articles on European literature.

Preface
Notes on Contributors

1 The “Great Shapesphere”: German Shakespeare Reception, Cultural Transfer and Translation Theory. An Introduction
John A. McCarthy

2 Johann Joachim Eschenburgs Shakespeare zwischen Regelpoetik und Genieästhetik
Till Kinzel

3 Christoph Mvartin Wielands Hamletübersetzung und ihre Bühnenwirkung: Zu Franz von Heufelds und Friedrich Ludwig Schröders Hamlet-Adaptionen
Monika Nenon

4 Übersetzung als Dialog: Christoph Martin Wielands Ein St. Johannis Nachts-Traum und August Wilhelm von Schlegels Der Sommernachtstraum
Lisa Beesley

5 Schiller zähmt Shakespeare. Der Weimarer Macbeth (1800/1801) im Licht der Kulturtranstransfer-Forschung
Astrid Dröse

6 Dorothea Tieck und Shakespeares Macbeth: Weibliche Aspekte des Kulturtransfers
Johanna Hörnig

7 Who Owns Hamlet? Gerhart Hauptmann’s Reconstruction of the Danish Prince
Curtis L. Maughan

8 Schändung, eine “Übermalung.” Botho Strauss’ theatralische Transformation einer Übersetzung
Christine Nilsson

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Erscheinungsdatum	31.05.2018
Reihe/Serie	Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik ; 90
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch; deutsch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-36158-8 / 9004361588
ISBN-13	978-90-04-36158-4 / 9789004361584
Zustand	Neuware