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DAS DEUTSCHE SINGSPIEL IM 18. JAHRHUNDERT. Colloquium der Arbeitsstelle 18. Jahrhundert, Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, Universität Münster, Amorbach vom 2. bis 4. Oktober 1979. - Heidelberg: Winter 1981. (= Beiträge zur Geschichte der Literatur und Kunst des 18. Jahrhunderts. 5.) 211 S. This volume consists of a preface and nine essays that deal with questions ranging from the intention of the Singspiel in the mid-18th century to its reception in the late 20th century. The essays evolved out of presentations and subsequent discussions at the former abbey of Amorbach in the Odenwald during a three-days conference, which happens to have been the fifth by that group of scholars. Their earlier four conferences concentrated on 18th century readership, public landscapes, library collections, and book illustrations. Rainer Gruenter begins the volume with a wonderfully provocative preface that surveys the diverse questions involved in exploring the Singspiel in all of its manifestations. He states outright in his second paragraph that the Singspiel has caused so much embarrassment to traditional university disciplines precisely because its study demands multidisciplinarians or, at least, people who have not been programmed to think only in terms of preestablished aesthetic norms and systems. In this regard, he alludes, as
Daphnis – Brill
Published: Mar 30, 1987
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