Author: Simon Richter
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 157113249X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
New essays providing an account of the shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values of Weimar Classicism.
The Literature of Weimar Classicism
Author: Simon Richter
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 157113249X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
New essays providing an account of the shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values of Weimar Classicism.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 157113249X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
New essays providing an account of the shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values of Weimar Classicism.
Dilettantism and Its Values
Author: Richard Hibbitt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351196294
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
"The concept of dilettantism has not always been associated with amateurism or superficiality. It played a significant role in French and German critical writing from the late eighteenth century until the fin de siecle, embracing notions such as apprenticeship, fruitful error, parody, aestheticism and scepticism. Attempts to define dilettantism in a binary relationship with art have often been defeated by a fundamental ambivalence towards its values. The major texts on the subject are Goethe and Schiller's unfinished 'dilettantism project' (1799) and Paul Bourget's essay on Ernest Renan (1882), although the term was also used by writers including Wieland, Baudelaire, Laforgue, Nietzsche, Hofmannsthal and Thomas Mann. In this wide-ranging study Richard Hibbitt provides the first book-length comparative analysis of the concept of dilettantism, tracing its chronological development and proposing a synthesis of its diverse aspects and values."
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351196294
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
"The concept of dilettantism has not always been associated with amateurism or superficiality. It played a significant role in French and German critical writing from the late eighteenth century until the fin de siecle, embracing notions such as apprenticeship, fruitful error, parody, aestheticism and scepticism. Attempts to define dilettantism in a binary relationship with art have often been defeated by a fundamental ambivalence towards its values. The major texts on the subject are Goethe and Schiller's unfinished 'dilettantism project' (1799) and Paul Bourget's essay on Ernest Renan (1882), although the term was also used by writers including Wieland, Baudelaire, Laforgue, Nietzsche, Hofmannsthal and Thomas Mann. In this wide-ranging study Richard Hibbitt provides the first book-length comparative analysis of the concept of dilettantism, tracing its chronological development and proposing a synthesis of its diverse aspects and values."
The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism
Author: Nicholas Saul
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521848911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Explains the development of Romantic arts and culture in Germany, with both individual artists and key themes covered in detail.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521848911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Explains the development of Romantic arts and culture in Germany, with both individual artists and key themes covered in detail.
The Classical Centre
Author: Terence James Reed
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780064958257
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780064958257
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The Literature of German Romanticism
Author: Dennis F. Mahoney
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1571132368
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Sharply focused essays on the most significant aspects of German Romanticism.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1571132368
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Sharply focused essays on the most significant aspects of German Romanticism.
Studies in Weimar Classicism
Author: Roger H. Stephenson
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039110858
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
This book is a study of central aspects of Weimar Classicism, written in the light of Ernst Cassirer's cultural theory. It provides a close reading of key texts, ranging across Goethe and Schiller's oeuvre as a whole, from their (philosophical) poems through their drama, prose-writing, and theoretical reflections on cultural and scientific topics. The work seeks to demonstrate the attested (but hitherto largely unanalysed) aesthetic power at the very heart of their writings, which in turn underpins their epistemological and ethical significance. The main theme of Weimar Classicism is the role of symbolism in Classicism, as distinct from the centrality of semiosis in competing cultural norms. The overall aim of the book is thus to see Weimar Classicism anew, both historically and analytically, as an enlightening context in which to reconsider many of the central tenets of contemporary (often called 'postmodern') cultural theory.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039110858
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
This book is a study of central aspects of Weimar Classicism, written in the light of Ernst Cassirer's cultural theory. It provides a close reading of key texts, ranging across Goethe and Schiller's oeuvre as a whole, from their (philosophical) poems through their drama, prose-writing, and theoretical reflections on cultural and scientific topics. The work seeks to demonstrate the attested (but hitherto largely unanalysed) aesthetic power at the very heart of their writings, which in turn underpins their epistemological and ethical significance. The main theme of Weimar Classicism is the role of symbolism in Classicism, as distinct from the centrality of semiosis in competing cultural norms. The overall aim of the book is thus to see Weimar Classicism anew, both historically and analytically, as an enlightening context in which to reconsider many of the central tenets of contemporary (often called 'postmodern') cultural theory.
Weimar on the Pacific
Author: Ehrhard Bahr
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520257952
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In the 1930s and '40s, LA became a cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodor W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg - who were fleeing Nazi Germany. This book is the first to examine their work and lives.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520257952
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In the 1930s and '40s, LA became a cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodor W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg - who were fleeing Nazi Germany. This book is the first to examine their work and lives.
German Classical Drama
Author: F. J. Lamport
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521428286
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This historical and critical survey of German drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries provides an introduction to major authors and works from Lessing, through Goethe, Schiller and Weimar Classicism, to Kleist, Grillparzer and Hebbel. F.J. Lamport traces the rise and development in the German-speaking world of the last form of "classical" poetic drama to appear in European literature. This development is seen as reflecting the intellectual and political ferment both within Germany and throughout Europe.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521428286
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This historical and critical survey of German drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries provides an introduction to major authors and works from Lessing, through Goethe, Schiller and Weimar Classicism, to Kleist, Grillparzer and Hebbel. F.J. Lamport traces the rise and development in the German-speaking world of the last form of "classical" poetic drama to appear in European literature. This development is seen as reflecting the intellectual and political ferment both within Germany and throughout Europe.
Wilhelm Meister
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 0714547689
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
Seduced by the chimerical world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand ambition of becoming a successful performer and dramatist, the merchant's son Wilhelm Meister embarks on a tumultuous quest of self-discovery. Along his path he finds himself having to negotiate love, desire and the need to face up to his own past and responsibilities.
Publisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 0714547689
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
Seduced by the chimerical world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand ambition of becoming a successful performer and dramatist, the merchant's son Wilhelm Meister embarks on a tumultuous quest of self-discovery. Along his path he finds himself having to negotiate love, desire and the need to face up to his own past and responsibilities.
The Cambridge Companion to Goethe
Author: Lesley Sharpe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521665605
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Goethe provides a stimulating and accessible survey of this many-sided figure. The volume places Goethe in the context of the Germany and Europe of his lifetime. His literary work is covered in individual chapters on poetry, drama (with a separate chapter on Faust), prose fiction and autobiography. A wide-ranging survey of reception inside and outside Germany and an extensive guide to further reading round off this volume, which will appeal to students and specialists alike.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521665605
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Goethe provides a stimulating and accessible survey of this many-sided figure. The volume places Goethe in the context of the Germany and Europe of his lifetime. His literary work is covered in individual chapters on poetry, drama (with a separate chapter on Faust), prose fiction and autobiography. A wide-ranging survey of reception inside and outside Germany and an extensive guide to further reading round off this volume, which will appeal to students and specialists alike.