Gerhart Hauptmann | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 28 pages of analysis & critique of Gerhart Hauptmann.

Gerhart Hauptmann | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 28 pages of analysis & critique of Gerhart Hauptmann.
This section contains 6,890 words
(approx. 23 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Essay by Larry D. Wells

SOURCE: “Words of Music: Gerhart Hauptmann's Composition Bahnwärter Thiel,” in Wege der Worte: Festschrift für Wolfgang Fleischhauer, edited by Donald C. Riechel, Böhlau Verlag, 1978, pp. 377-91.

In the following essay, Wells discusses musical imagery and the musicality of Hauptmann's prose in Bahnwärter Thiel.

“Mein Werk, aus Tönen ist es aufgebaut, aus schnellen Lichtern und aus Funkenblitzen, und mit dem Ohre wird es angeschaut.“ 

(Gerhart Hauptmann, Der große Traum)1

“Die Tonsprache ist Anfang und Ende der Wortsprache … “ 

(Richard Wagner, Oper und Drama)2

Much of Gerhart Hauptmann's work is characterized by rich and at times flamboyant tonality and the synaesthetic blend of visual and acoustic imagery alluded to in Der große Traum. We may marvel at melodic masterpieces of the Minnesänger or the Romantics, but Hauptmann's works resound with no less tonality and effulgence. Certainly few Hauptmann readers could disagree with at...

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This section contains 6,890 words
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