The Literature of Weimar Classicism

by Richter, Simon

• ISBN13: 9781571132499
• ISBN10: 157113249X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-30
• Publisher: Camden House

Summary

New essays providing an account of the shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values of Weimar Classicism.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Preface and Acknowledgments	ix
Conventions, Editions, and Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	3	(42)
Simon Richter
What is Classicism?	45	(18)
Dieter Borchmeyer
Antiquity and Weimar Classicism	63	(28)
Charles A. Grair
The Correspondents' Noncorrespondence: Goethe, Schiller And the Briefwechsel	91	(22)
Gail Hart
Johann Gottfried Herder: The Weimar Classic Back of the (City) Church	113	(20)
Thomas P. Saine
Drama and Theatrical Practice in Weimar Classicism	133	(36)
Jane K. Brown
German Classical Poetry	169	(42)
Cyrus Hamlin
The Novel in Weimar Classicism: Symbolic Form and Symbolic Pregnance	211	(26)
R.H. Stephenson
German Women Writers and Classicism	237	(28)
Elisabeth Krimmer
Weimar Classicism as Visual Culture	265	(30)
Helmut Pfotenhauer
The Irrelevance of Aesthetics and the De-Theorizing of the Self in "Classical" Weimar	295	(28)
Benjamin Bennett
Goethe's "Classical" Science	323	(24)
Astrida Orle Tantillo
The Political Context of Weimar Classicism	347	(22)
W. Daniel Wilson
Bibliography	369	(30)
Primary Literature	369	(16)
Select Secondary Literature	385	(14)
Notes on the Contributors	399	(2)
Index	401