Persistence of Folly : On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature / / Joel B. Lande

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910682544703321
• Autore: Lande Joel B.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• ISBN: 1-5017-2711-7; 1-5017-2712-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
• Disciplina: 832/.009
• Soggetti: German drama (Comedy) - History and criticism; Fools and jesters in literature; German drama - 18th century - History and criticism; German drama - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Fool at Play -- 1. Birth of a Comic Form -- 2. Strolling Players and the Advent of the Fool -- 3. Practice of Stage Interaction -- 4. The Fool's Space and Time -- Part II. Fabricating Comedy and the Fate of the Fool in the Age of Reform -- 5. Making Comedy Whole -- 6. Biases in Precedent -- 7. Sanitation and Unity -- 8. Comedic Plot, Comic Time, Dramatic Time -- Part III. Life, Theater, and the Restoration of the Fool -- 9. Policey and the Legitimacy of Delight -- 10. The Place of Laughter in Life -- 11. National Literature I: Improvement -- 12. National Literature II: Custom -- Part IV. The Vitality of Folly in Goethe's Faust and Kleist's Jug -- 13. Faust I: Setting the Stage -- 14. Faust II: Mirroring and Framing in the Form of Faust -- 15. Faust III: The Diabolical Comic -- 16. Antinomies of the Classical: On Kleist's Broken Jug -- Postlude -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Joel B. Lande's Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted account of the origins of German theater by focusing on the misunderstood figure of the fool, whose spontaneous and impish jest captivated audiences, ; critics, and playwrights from the late sixteenth through the early nineteenth century. Lande radically expands the scope of literary historical inquiry, showing that the fool was not a distraction from attempts to establish a serious dramatic tradition in the German language. Instead, the fool was both a fixture on the stage and a nearly ubiquitous theme in an array of literary critical, governmental, moral-philosophical, and medical discourses, figuring centrally in broad-based efforts to assign laughter a proper time, place, and proportion in society.Persistence of Folly reveals the fool as a cornerstone of the dynamic process that culminated in the works of Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist. By reorienting the history of German theater, Lande's work conclusively shows that the highpoint of German literature around 1800 did not eliminate irreverent jest in the name of serious drama, but instead developed highly refined techniques for integrating the comic tradition of the stage fool.

Felix Klein : The Erlangen Program / / by David E. Rowe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911007361303321
• Autore: Rowe David E
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2025
• ISBN: 3-031-85474-8
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2025.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (0 pages)
• Collana: Classic Texts in the Sciences, , 2365-9971
• Disciplina: 510.9
• Soggetti: Mathematics; History; Geometry; Topological groups; Lie groups; History of Mathematical Sciences; Topological Groups and Lie Groups
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Prehistory of the “Erlangen Program” ; -- 1 Klein as a Young Geometer -- 2. Klein Encounters Sophus Lie -- 3. Klein on Cayley’s Projective Metric -- Part II. Klein’s “Erlangen Program” with Commentary -- 4. Klein’s “Erlangen Program” -- 5. Textual Analysis of Klein’s “Erlangen Program” -- Part III. Four Phases of Reception and Transformation -- 6. First Phase of Reception, 1873–1889 -- 7. Second Phase of Reception, 1890–1899 -- 8. Third Phase of Reception, 1900–1916 -- 9. Fourth Phase of Reception, 1917–1930 -- Part IV. Reconsiderations -- 10 Historical Reflections -- Bibliography -- Name Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents a historical account of Felix Klein's "Comparative Reflections on Recent Research in Geometry" (1872), better known as his "Erlangen Program.” Originally conceived and written when Klein was collaborating with Sophus Lie, this bold essay initially made little impression on contemporary researchers. Decades later, however, it eventually became a famous classic. Eminent mathematicians hailed Klein’s main message – the role of invariants of transformation groups in geometry – as presaging major developments in mathematics and physics. The first part of this book focuses on the prehistory surrounding Klein’s “Erlangen Program,” stressing the motivations that led Klein to write it. The core of the book (Part II) then presents a new translation of Klein's original text, followed by detailed textual analysis aimed at guiding the reader through its rather terse and opaque prose. Part III deals with its complicated reception history, treated in four periods spanning the years from 1872 to 1930. This culminated during Klein’s lifetime with his efforts to promote the "Erlangen Program” as a framework for interpreting Einstein’s theory of relativity. After his death in 1925, the viability of this framework became a contentious issue among leading differential geometers. Part IV looks back on the transformations in mathematics that led to a modernized interpretation of Klein’s message. The book also explores in depth how the growing fame of the “Erlangen Program” undermined Klein’s friendship with Sophus Lie, leading to a dramatic public break between them in 1893. Beyond the "Erlangen Program” itself, this book deals with many of Felix Klein’s other works. As an introduction to a largely forgotten world of ideas, this study will appeal not only to experts but also to graduate students and all those with a serious interest in the history of modern mathematics. .