| Carl Zuckmayer Criticism: Tracing Endangered Fame Contributor(s): Wagener, Hans (Author) |
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ISBN: 1571130640 ISBN-13: 9781571130648 Publisher: Camden House (NY) OUR PRICE: $71.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - General - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Dewey: 832.912 |
| LCCN: 95009743 |
| Physical Information: 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Carl Zuckmayer (1890-1971) ranks with Bertolt Brecht and Gerhart Hauptmann as one of the most popular and significant German dramatists of the twentieth century; The Merry Vineyard (1925), marking the end of German Expressionism, his comedy The Captain of Kpenick (1931), a scathing satire of German militarism, and The Devil's General (1946), about a Nazi general and German resistance, are among the most frequently performed plays in German theatrical history. Wagener traces the development of Zuckmayer criticism from reviews to general assessments, from a biographical approach to the New Criticism and finally feminist criticism, paying particular attention to the role of the Carl Zuckmayer Society in the critical discourse about this neglected author. |