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From: "Waelle, Philipp" <[log in to unmask]>
PETER LANG - European Academic Publishers
announces a new book by
PHILIP WARD
HOFMANNSTHAL AND GREEK MYTH: EXPRESSION AND
PERFORMANCE
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2002.
295 pp.
British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature. Vol. 24
General Editors: H.S. Reiss and W.E. Yates
ISBN 3-906766-44-6 / US-ISBN 0-8204-5330-7 pb.
sFr. 69.- / E1* 47.60 / E2** 44.50 / £ 29.- / US-$ 41.95
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.
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.
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.
* The E1-price includes VAT and is only valid for Germany and Austria.
** The E2-price does not include VAT.
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