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Geld und Besitz im burgerlichen Trauerspiel. By MARGRIT FIEDERER. (Epistemata: Reihe Literaturwissenschaft, 414) Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann. 2002. 402 pp. 50.90 [euro]. ISBN 3-8260-2335-8 (pbk).
The breadth of Margrit Fiederer's study is certainly impressive, as is its depth. Above all it is her simple but faultlessly rigorous methodological approach that is so refreshing for a study of this type. Fiederer eschews all the thorny and, as her detailed and meticulously constructed analyses show, questionable theoretical or genre-oriented arguments, privileging, quite rightly, direct engagement with a wide range of primary sources. Moreover, an empirical text-based study of this type is surely a prerequisite for any attempt to tackle such questions. As Karl S. Guthke stresses in Das deutsche burgerliche Trauerspiel (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1972), the canon's concentration on the well-known yet rare Hochstleistungen of the genre, such as Emilia Galotti or Kabale...
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