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Major Cultural Essays
Taschenbuch von George Bernard Shaw
Sprache: Englisch

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George Bernard Shaw's public career began in arts journalism-as an art critic, a music critic, and, most famously, a drama critic-and he continued writing on cultural and artistic matters throughout his life. His total output of essays and reviews numbers in the hundreds, dwarfing even his prolific playwriting career. This volume of Shaw's Major Cultural Essays introduces readers to the wealth and diversity of Shaw's cultural writings from across the breadth of his professional life, beginning around 1890 and ending in 1950.

Topics covered include the theatre, of course, but also music, opera, poetry, the novel, the visual arts, philosophy, censorship, and education. Major figures discussed at length in these works include Ibsen, Wagner, Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Wilde, Mozart, Beethoven, Keats, Rodin, Zola, Ruskin, Dickens, Tolstoy, and Poe, among many others. Coursing with Shavian flair and vigor, these essays showcase the author's broad aesthetic sensibilities, trace the intersection of culture and politics in Shaw's worldview, and provide a fascinating window into the vibrant cultural moment of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
George Bernard Shaw's public career began in arts journalism-as an art critic, a music critic, and, most famously, a drama critic-and he continued writing on cultural and artistic matters throughout his life. His total output of essays and reviews numbers in the hundreds, dwarfing even his prolific playwriting career. This volume of Shaw's Major Cultural Essays introduces readers to the wealth and diversity of Shaw's cultural writings from across the breadth of his professional life, beginning around 1890 and ending in 1950.

Topics covered include the theatre, of course, but also music, opera, poetry, the novel, the visual arts, philosophy, censorship, and education. Major figures discussed at length in these works include Ibsen, Wagner, Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Wilde, Mozart, Beethoven, Keats, Rodin, Zola, Ruskin, Dickens, Tolstoy, and Poe, among many others. Coursing with Shavian flair and vigor, these essays showcase the author's broad aesthetic sensibilities, trace the intersection of culture and politics in Shaw's worldview, and provide a fascinating window into the vibrant cultural moment of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • Note on the Text

  • Select Bibliography

  • Chronology

  • Major Cultural Essays

  • The Quintessence of Ibsenism

  • The Sanity of Art

  • The Perfect Wagnerite

  • A Preface

  • Selections from the Preface to Three Plays by Brieux

  • Shorter Essays and Reviews

  • 11 June 1890

  • 11 October 1893

  • 1 August 1894 and 8 August 1894

  • The Case for the Critic-Dramatist

  • The Late Censor

  • Church and Stage

  • Nietzsche in English

  • Maddox Brown, Watts, and Ibsen

  • The Board School

  • Henry Irving and Ellen Terry

  • Edgar Allen Poe

  • Rodin

  • Mr. Arnold Bennett Thinks Play-Writing Easier than Novel Writing

  • Oscar Wilde

  • Selections from Ruskin's Politics

  • Keats

  • Tolstoy: Tragedian or Comedian

  • Beethoven's Centenary

  • Am I an Educated Person?

  • The Play of Ideas

  • Explanatory Notes

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780198817727
ISBN-10: 019881772X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Print PDF
Autor: Shaw, George Bernard
Redaktion: Kornhaber, David
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Oxford University Press
Maße: 25 x 130 x 197 mm
Von/Mit: George Bernard Shaw
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.07.2021
Gewicht: 0,358 kg
Artikel-ID: 119002634
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • Note on the Text

  • Select Bibliography

  • Chronology

  • Major Cultural Essays

  • The Quintessence of Ibsenism

  • The Sanity of Art

  • The Perfect Wagnerite

  • A Preface

  • Selections from the Preface to Three Plays by Brieux

  • Shorter Essays and Reviews

  • 11 June 1890

  • 11 October 1893

  • 1 August 1894 and 8 August 1894

  • The Case for the Critic-Dramatist

  • The Late Censor

  • Church and Stage

  • Nietzsche in English

  • Maddox Brown, Watts, and Ibsen

  • The Board School

  • Henry Irving and Ellen Terry

  • Edgar Allen Poe

  • Rodin

  • Mr. Arnold Bennett Thinks Play-Writing Easier than Novel Writing

  • Oscar Wilde

  • Selections from Ruskin's Politics

  • Keats

  • Tolstoy: Tragedian or Comedian

  • Beethoven's Centenary

  • Am I an Educated Person?

  • The Play of Ideas

  • Explanatory Notes

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780198817727
ISBN-10: 019881772X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Print PDF
Autor: Shaw, George Bernard
Redaktion: Kornhaber, David
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Oxford University Press
Maße: 25 x 130 x 197 mm
Von/Mit: George Bernard Shaw
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.07.2021
Gewicht: 0,358 kg
Artikel-ID: 119002634
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