Hebbel's Prose Tragedies
An Investigation of the Aesthetic Aspect of Hebbel's Dramatic Language

A study of the nineteenth-century German writer Friedrich Hebbel.

Mary Garland (Author)

9780521155212, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 April 2011

348 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.44 kg

A study of the nineteenth-century German writer Friedrich Hebbel, concentrating on his tragedies in prose, and examining in particular the way in which the language is used to convey Hebbel's beliefs, attitudes and intellectual preoccupations and also the dramatic effects. The three tragedies Judith, Maria Magdalene and Agnes Bernauer are studied in turn.

Preface
1. Introduction
Part I. Judith: 2. Scope and setting
3. The idea
4. The temper of negation
5. God and nature
6. Sleep and dreams
7. Character portrayal by image
8. The Bible and the Apocryphal Book of Judith
Part II. Maria Magdalene: 9. Expository motifs
10. The balance-sheet
11. The emotional temper
12. Ambivalent communication
Part III. Agnes Bernauer: 13. The background
14. The concentric setting
15. Variations on the Theme of Death
16. Biblical motifs
17. The symbolism of reality
18. Variations on the Christ Motif in other works of Hebbel
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK]