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Herman Heijermans and His Dramas

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  1. Seymour L. Flaxman

    1. University College, New York University, USA

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N1-IX
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-14

  3. Herman Heijermans — A Biographical Sketch

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    Pages 15-63

  4. Protests Against Religious Conservatism and Intolerance

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    Pages 64-79

  5. The Men Hemmed in with the Spears

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    Pages 80-127

  6. Marriage and the Family

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    Pages 128-161

  7. “The Root of All Evil”

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    Pages 162-187

  8. Fantasies and Satires

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    Pages 188-216

  9. The Influence of Ibsen and Hauptmann

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    Pages 217-227

  10. Theory, Style, and Technique

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    Pages 228-235

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 236-266
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About this book

During the last two decades of the nineteenth century the Dutch drama, which had lapsed into astate of somnolence since the glorious days of VondeI, suddenly awoke to vigorous life. Not only did gifted dramatists appear, but talented directors, actors, and actresses brought new splendor to the theatre. Yet this brilliant flame did not burst forth in a vacuum, and to appre­ ciate the quality of its light, it must be viewed against the back­ ground of its origins in the European drama. After the middle of the century the emphasis in literary creation had shifted from a subjective, emotional point of view to a more objective and rationalistic attitude. If this seems only a roundabout way of saying that Romanticism yielded its dominance to Realism and Naturalism, the conc1usion is justified, but we should not yield too readily to the pseudo-scientific mania which urges us to force literature into a genus and species type of c1assification. It is customary to say that in the eighties and nineties, Nat­ uralism won a decisive victory over Romanticism and drove the partisans of the older movement from the field. At first glance this does, indeed, appear to be true. Hugo yields to Zola, Pushkin to Tolstoi, Tieck to Hauptmann. It is all quite simple.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University College, New York University, USA

    Seymour L. Flaxman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Herman Heijermans and His Dramas

  • Authors: Seymour L. Flaxman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9155-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1954

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-011-8441-0Published: 01 January 1954

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-9155-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 266

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History, general, Linguistics, general

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