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German Romantic Literary Theory »

Authors: Ernst Behler, H. B. Nisbet (Editor), Martin Swales
ISBN-13: 9780521021913, ISBN-10: 052102191X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Ernst Behler

Book Synopsis

Professor Behler provides a view of the literary work and the artistic process developed in the German Romantic period.

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