The Death of Empedocles

A Mourning-Play

von Friedrich Hölderlin

330 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin's poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich Hölderlin composed three versions of a dramatic poem on the suicide of the early Greek thinker, Empedocles of Acragas. This book offers the first complete translation of the three versions, along with translations of Hölderlin's essays on the theory of tragedy. David Farrell Krell gives readers a brief chronology of Hölderlin's life, an introduction to the life and thought of Empedocles-including Hölderlin's Empedocles-detailed explanatory notes, and an analysis of the play and the theoretical essays, allowing for a full appreciation of this classic of world literature and philosophy.

• Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Drama, Theaterstücke, Drehbücher
• ISBN: 9780791476482
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2009
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: SUNY Press