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.
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978-0-521-20090-5 (9780521200905)
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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.
