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Friedrich Schiller: Crime, Aesthetics, and the Poetics of Punishment
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Gail K. Hart, Friedrich Schiller Crime, Aesthetics, and the Poetics of Punishment. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2005.183 pp.
On 9 May 1805 Schiller died in Weimar, and two hundred years later, in 2005, an avalanche of new books on the author appeared in Germany to commemorate the anniversary. Only a few new publications on Schiller came out in the United States on this occasion, and Gail Hart's book on aspects of crime and punishment in the author's work is of particular relevance. She is right in observing that Schiller in his literary writings frequently addressed penal tactics and executions, ...
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