Konsequenzen der Schillerschen kategorie des erhabenen in Friedrich Durrenmatts komodie Der Meteor
Consequences of Schiller s Category of the sublime in Friedrich Durrenmatt s comedy Der Meteor
Author(s): Vasile PoenaruSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: sublime; grotesque; Schiller; Durrenmatt; paradox;ambivalence; probability; conceptuality; ontology;indetermination; free will; outcome; gravity; appropriation;
Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the implications of Friedrich Schiller s category of the sublime in Friedrich Durrenmatt s drama Der Meteor by construing the drama s underlyng narrative as an immediate derivate of Schiller s aesthetics. The Swiss author s main concepts and techniques, such as the central idea, probability, worst possible turn, odds and outcome, are being considered in their sophisticated entanglement with the German philosopher s take on the notion of free will and the power of judgment. In this context, Durrenmatt s play around the gravity metaphor is being read as a dramatic actualization of Schiller s appropriation
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 73-87
- Page Count: 14