{"product_id":"drama-and-ideenschmuggel-jeffrey-l-sammons-9783039110957","title":"Drama and Ideenschmuggel: Inserted Performance as Communicative Strategy in Karl Gutzkow's Plays 1839-1849","description":"This monograph details Gutzkow's recurring use of performance-within-the-play as a means of encouraging an active, political response by the audience. He incorporates an internal audience viewing a performance on stage in order to model an ideal of dramatic reception for the audiences of his own play. Gutzkow structures the narrative contextualization of these performances as reflections of specific issues in the German states of the \u003ci\u003eVormärz\u003c\/i\u003e. Beginning with an overview of theoretical and literary texts from the 1830s, this study traces Gutzkow's transferral of self-reflexive structures from his novels of this decade into his first staged play, \u003ci\u003eRichard Savage\u003c\/i\u003e (1839), and on through \u003ci\u003eDas Urbild des Tartüffe\u003c\/i\u003e (1844) and \u003ci\u003eUriel Acosta\u003c\/i\u003e (1845). It concludes by portraying \u003ci\u003eDer Königsleutnant\u003c\/i\u003e (1849) as a transitional work that shows Gutzkow's decision to return to the novel as a consequence of the failure of his plays to attain the reception he intended. By using the coherency of the communicated message instead of fealty to aesthetic norms as the evaluative criteria for discussing Gutzkow's plays, the book exposes an innovative mode of specifically literary social criticism in these works that complements their traditional assessment as documentation of the cultural history of Liberalism in this period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey L. Sammons,K. Scott Baker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3039110950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783039110957\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d","brand":"Jeffrey L. Sammons","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48996275945727,"sku":"9783039110957","price":68.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/drama-and-ideenschmuggel-jeffrey-l-sammons-9783039110957","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}