| Social Comedy in Austria and Germany 1890-1933: Reprint Revised Edition Contributor(s): Reiss, Hans S. (Editor), Yates, W. E. (Editor), John R P McKenzie (Author) |
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ISBN: 3906756068 ISBN-13: 9783906756066 Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P OUR PRICE: $88.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism |
| Series: Britische Und Irische Studien Zur Deutschen Sprache Und Lite |
| Physical Information: 246 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Social comedy in German-speaking Europe in the twentieth century is marked by a distinctively complex relationship between comic fiction and social and political context. The study examines a representative selection of important works by major German and Austrian playwrights, analysing the balance between comic convention and critical appraisal of the real world, and assesses the special contribution to the comic mode made by each of the seven writers represented; in particular, it attempts to define the writer's moral concerns in a period of unprecedented social and political change. |