M B Benn
Biographic Data
| ID | 953716 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M B Benn |
| GIVEN NAMES | M B |
| FAMILY NAME | Benn |
| SIGNATURE | BENN M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Büchner and Gautier
Continuing a discussion initiated by Rudolf Majut, it is shown, first, that Majut was mistaken in assuming that Buchner's Dantons Tod could have been influenced by Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin; second, that he was right in suggesting a relationship between Gautier's novel and Buchner's Leonce und Lena; third, that a quotation of Buchner's which Majut supposed to be derived from Gautier is in fact derived from Beaumarchais's Le Mariage de Figa…
Molière and Lessing 1
Der Tod des Empedokles
Hölderlin's Achill —The Genesis of a Poem
The Problem of Truth in Poetry
As the dominatian af science in modern society becomes ever more, overwhelming, sO' our interest in the arts must became more urgent. We must naturally wonder whether they can do anything, however little, to check that 'loss of inwardness',! that spiritual impaverishment, which seems inseparable from an advanced stage of scientific and technological progress and which constitutes such a grave danger to' mankind. Surely it is not without significa…
Poetry and the Endangered World: Notes on a Poem by Ingeborg Bachmann
Some Problematical Aspects of ‘Stilkritik’: Reflections on the Critical Principles and Practice of Emil Staiger
IT would be going too far to say that Stilkritik is dead, or even that it is moribund, but it does appear to be weakening. There are signs of increasing dissatisfaction with that method of stylistic analysis, of 'immanent' text interpretation, which has dominated literary scholarship in Germany, as in most other countries, during the last twenty years. In order to ascertain the reasons for this dissatisfaction I propose to consider the work of on…
Hölderlin's Optimism: A Reply to Dr L. J. Ryan
Hölderlin and Sophocles
Bert Brecht’s Hitler: A Stuttgart Production of the Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
THEmost notable event in the German theatre, this season, has been the first performance of Brecht's parable of th~ rise of Hitler, Der au/haltsam'e Au/stieg des Arturo Vi (1941). For the purpose of this production the 'Berlin Ensemble' -the theatre which Brecht found~d and directed in East Berlin-placed at the disposal of the Stuttgart Schauspielhaus an expert producer, Peter Palitzsch, and an excellent actor for the leading role, Wolfgang Kieli…
Goethe and T. S. Eliot
An Interpretation of the Work of Hermann Hesse
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An Interpretation of the Work of Hermann Hesse
Goethe and T. S. Eliot
Hölderlin and Sophocles
Bert Brecht’s Hitler: A Stuttgart Production of the Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
THEmost notable event in the German theatre, this season, has been the first performance of Brecht's parable of th~ rise of Hitler, Der au/haltsam'e Au/stieg des Arturo Vi (1941). For the purpose of this production the 'Berlin Ensemble' -the theatre which Brecht found~d and directed in East Berlin-placed at the disposal of the Stuttgart Schauspielhaus an expert producer, Peter Palitzsch, and an excellent actor for the leading role, Wolfgang Kieli…
Hölderlin's Optimism: A Reply to Dr L. J. Ryan
Poetry and the Endangered World: Notes on a Poem by Ingeborg Bachmann
Some Problematical Aspects of ‘Stilkritik’: Reflections on the Critical Principles and Practice of Emil Staiger
IT would be going too far to say that Stilkritik is dead, or even that it is moribund, but it does appear to be weakening. There are signs of increasing dissatisfaction with that method of stylistic analysis, of 'immanent' text interpretation, which has dominated literary scholarship in Germany, as in most other countries, during the last twenty years. In order to ascertain the reasons for this dissatisfaction I propose to consider the work of on…
The Problem of Truth in Poetry
As the dominatian af science in modern society becomes ever more, overwhelming, sO' our interest in the arts must became more urgent. We must naturally wonder whether they can do anything, however little, to check that 'loss of inwardness',! that spiritual impaverishment, which seems inseparable from an advanced stage of scientific and technological progress and which constitutes such a grave danger to' mankind. Surely it is not without significa…
Hölderlin's Achill —The Genesis of a Poem
Der Tod des Empedokles
Büchner and Gautier
Continuing a discussion initiated by Rudolf Majut, it is shown, first, that Majut was mistaken in assuming that Buchner's Dantons Tod could have been influenced by Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin; second, that he was right in suggesting a relationship between Gautier's novel and Buchner's Leonce und Lena; third, that a quotation of Buchner's which Majut supposed to be derived from Gautier is in fact derived from Beaumarchais's Le Mariage de Figa…
Molière and Lessing 1
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