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9780521021913

German Romantic Literary Theory

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521021913

  • ISBN10:

    052102191X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-11-03
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

The emergence of a new theory of literature in the German Romantic period constituted a decisive turning point in the history of criticism. A view of the literary work and the artistic process developed that diverged sharply from the dominant classicist understanding of aesthetics and poetics. It recognized the infinite changeablility of genres, and asserted the rights of genius and creative imagination. Professor Behler provides a new account of this crucial movement, illustrating each theoretical topic with close reference to a characteristic work by a major writer of the period.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
List of abbreviations xi
Chronology of early Romanticism xvii
Introduction 1(12)
1 Formation and main representatives of early Romanticism in Germany 13(59)
Jena and early Romanticism
14(10)
The words 'romantic' and 'romanticism'
24(9)
The members of the early Romantic School
33(21)
EXAMPLE: Early Romanticism and the French Revolution
54(18)
2 Poetry in the early Romantic theory of the Schlegel brothers 72(59)
The theory of the imagination
74(13)
The poetic unity of the literary work
87(8)
Ancient and modern, classical and Romantic poetry
95(15)
EXAMPLE: A.W. Schlegel and the early Romantic damnatio of Euripides
110(21)
3 The theory of Romantic poetry 131(50)
Transcendental poetry and double reflection
134(7)
Irony and fragment
141(13)
Romantic poetry and the new mythology
154(11)
EXAMPLE: Goethe's Wilhelm Meister and the early Romantic theory of the novel
165(16)
4 Novalis and the mystical dimension of early Romantic theory 181(41)
Friedrich Schlegel's and Novalis' critique of Fichte
184(11)
Absolute idealism
195(6)
The nature of the truly poetic
201(10)
EXAMPLE: Novalis' Heinrich von Ofterdingen
211(11)
5 Wackenroder's and Tieck's conceptions of painting and music 222(38)
The approach to art in the Outpourings
225(7)
The conception of painting
232(9)
The conception of music
241(7)
EXAMPLE: Tieck's novel Franz Sternbald's Wanderings
248(12)
6 Theory of language, hermeneutics, and encyclopaedistics 260(39)
Theory of language
263(10)
Theory of understanding and interpretation
273(9)
The early Romantic notion of encyclopaedia
282(7)
EXAMPLE: Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde
289(10)
Conclusion: early German Romanticism and literary modernity 299(7)
Notes 306(17)
Select bibliography 323(4)
Index of works cited and primary sources 327(7)
Index of subjects and names 334

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