Bernhard Greiner

Friedrich Nietzsche: Versuch und Versuchung in seinen Aphorismen

Gerhard Fischer

The thirty chapters of this innovative international study are all devoted to the topic ofthe play within the play. The authors explore the wide range of aesthetic, literary-theoretical and philosophical issues associated with this rhetorical device, not only in terms of its original meta-theatrical setting – from the baroque idea of atheatrum mundi onward to contemporary examples of postmodern self-referential dramaturgy – but also with regard to a variety of different generic applications, e.g. in narrative fiction, musical theatre and film. The authors, internationally recognized specialists in their respective fields, draw on recent debates in such areas as postcolonial studies, game and systems theories, media and performance studies, to analyze the specific qualities and characteristics ofthe play within the play: as ultimate affirmation of the 'self' (the 'Hamlet paradigm'), as a self-reflective agency of meta-theatrical discourse, and as a vehicle of intermedial and intercultural transformation. The challenging study, with its underlying premise of play as a key feature of cultural anthropology and human creativity, breaks new ground by placingthe play within the play at the centre of a number of intersecting scholarly discourses on areas of topical concern to scholars in the humanities.

The Performance of Meta-theatre and Self-reflection

The Play Within the Play

Die in diesem Band versammelten Studien sind exemplarischen Konstellationen deutsch-jüdischer Interkulturalität gewidmet. Mit dem Titel >Beschneidung des Herzens, einer Paulinische Wendung, die Shakespeare im Kaufmann von Venedig aufgegriffen hat, wird an die fundamentale Konfrontation zwischen der jüdischen Kultur und ihrer nicht-jüdischer Umgebung erinnert, die zu einem deutsch-jüdischen Dialog führte. Aus dem Inhalt Programmatische Aneignungen biblischer Figuren oder Motive (Kafka, Racine, Goethe, Grillparzer, Canetti) Begründung der Bildungsidee (Moses Mendelssohn) und deren alternative Aneignung im Bildungsroman (Goethe, Dorothea Schlegel) Literarischer Umgang mit dem Problem des Gottesnamens (Goethe, Canetti) Heines mythopoetische Abschiednahme von der deutschen Romantik Spielarten jüdischer Theatromanie

Bernhard Greiner

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