Aesthetic Vision And German Romanticism

Author : Brad Prager
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 1571133410

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Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism by Brad Prager Pdf

Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemology. The work of the groundbreaking writers and artists of German Romanticism -- including the writers Tieck, Brentano, and Eichendorff and the artists Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge -- followed from the philosophical arguments of the German Idealists, who placed emphasis on exploring the subjective space of the imagination. The Romantic perspective was a form of engagement with Idealist discourses, especially Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Fichte's Science of Knowledge. Through an aggressive, speculative reading of Kant, the Romantics abandoned the binary distinction between the palpable outer world and the ungraspable space of the mind's eye and were therefore compelled to develop new terms for understanding the distinction between "internal" and "external." In this light, Brad Prager urges a reassessment of some of Romanticism's major oppositional tropes, contending that binaries such as "self and other," "symbol and allegory," and "light and dark," should be understood as alternatives to Lessing's distinction between interior and exterior worlds. Prager thus crosses the boundaries between philosophy, literature, and art history to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience, examining the interplay of text and image in the formulation of Romantic epistemology. Brad Prager is Associate Professor of Germanat the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Author : Theodore Ziolkowski
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691225760

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German Romanticism and Its Institutions by Theodore Ziolkowski Pdf

Using an illuminating method that challenges the popular notion of Romanticism as aesthetic escapism, Theodore Ziolkowski explores five institutions--mining, law, madhouses, universities, and museums--that provide the socio-historical context for German Romantic culture. He shows how German writers and thinkers helped to shape these five institutions, all of which assumed their modern form during the Romantic period, and how these social structures in turn contributed to major literary works through image, plot, character, and theme. "Ziolkowski cannot fail to impress the reader with a breadth of erudition that reveals fascinating intersections in the life and works of an artist.... He conveys the sense of energy and idealism that fueled Schiller and Goethe, Fichte and Hegel, Hoffmann and Novalis...."--Emily Grosholz, The Hudson Review "[This book] should be put in the hands of every student who is seriously interested in the subject, and I cannot imagine a scholar in the field who will not learn from it and be delighted with it."--Hans Eichner, Journal of English and Germanic Philology "Ziolkowski is among those who go beyond lip-service to the historical and are able to show concretely the ways in which generic and thematic intentions are inextricably enmeshed with local and specific institutional circumstances."--Virgil Nemoianu, MLN

Author : Dennis F. Mahoney
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571132369

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The Literature of German Romanticism by Dennis F. Mahoney Pdf

Sharply focused essays on the most significant aspects of German Romanticism.

Author : Elizabeth Millán Brusslan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030535674

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The Palgrave Handbook of German Romantic Philosophy by Elizabeth Millán Brusslan Pdf

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the philosophical dimensions of German Romanticism, a movement that challenged traditional borders between philosophy, poetry, and science. With contributions from leading international scholars, the collection places the movement in its historical context by both exploring its links to German Idealism and by examining contemporary, related developments in aesthetics and scientific research. A substantial concluding section of the Handbook examines the enduring legacy of German romantic philosophy. Key Features: • Highlights the contributions of German romantic philosophy to literary criticism, irony, cinema, religion, and biology. • Emphasises the important role that women played in the movement’s formation. • Reveals the ways in which German romantic philosophy impacted developments in modernism, existentialism and critical theory in the twentieth century. • Interdisciplinary in approach with contributions from philosophers, Germanists, historians and literary scholars. Providing both broad perspectives and new insights, this Handbook is essential reading for scholars undertaking new research on German romantic philosophy as well as for advanced students requiring a thorough understanding of the subject.

Author : Alexander J. B. Hampton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108429443

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Romanticism and the Re-Invention of Modern Religion by Alexander J. B. Hampton Pdf

"The fundamental concern of Romanticism, which brought about its inception, determined its development, and set its end, was the need to create a new language for religion"--

Author : Robert E. Mottram,Christopher R. Clason
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781802079074

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Assembly and its Other in German Romantic Literature and Thought by Robert E. Mottram,Christopher R. Clason Pdf

This collection of essays turns on a shift in Romantic studies from viewing wholeness as an absolute value to critiquing it as a limiting construction. Wholeness and its concomitant sense of harmony, rather than a natural given, is a construct that was assembled and disassembled, theorized and criticized, by diverse authors and artists in a wide variety of disciplines and socio-historical contexts, and instrumentalized for diverse purposes. The plurality of these constructions – that Goethe’s Urpflanze, for example, is not synonymous with Friedrich Schlegel’s universal progressive poetry – is but one manifestation of how “assembly” strives but fails to be absolute. The “other” of assembly referenced in the title suggests two divergent but inseparable tendencies: firstly, how a construction can take on the appearance of a natural given; and secondly, how assemblages of wholeness harbor within themselves their own principle of disarticulation. These two tendencies underlie the “inexhaustible” character of Romantic “gatherings”. As a construction passes itself off as nature, the natural fails to account for itself as a whole. The scope of this volume encompasses the establishment, mapping, and interrogation of assembly and its other in German Romanticism through interdisciplinary studies on literature, aesthetics, philosophy, drama, music, synaesthesia, mathematics, science, and exploration. List of contributors: Beate Allert, Frederick Burwick, Alexis B. Smith, Margaret Strair, Christina Weiler, Joshua Wilner.

Author : Allison Lee Palmer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781538122969

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Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture by Allison Lee Palmer Pdf

Romanticism is multifaceted, and a wide range of nostalgic, emotional, and exotic concerns were expressed in such styles and movements as the Gothic Revival, Classical Revival, Orientalism, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Some movements were regional and subject-specific, such as the Hudson River School of landscape painting in the United States and the German Nazarene movement, which focused primarily on religious art in Rome. The movements range across Western Europe and include the United States. This dictionary will provide a fuller historical context for Romanticism and enable the reader to identify major trends and explore artists of the period. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on major artists of the romantic era as well as entries on related art movements, styles, aesthetic philosophies, and philosophers. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Romantic art.

Author : Paola Mayer
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228000259

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The Aesthetics of Fear in German Romanticism by Paola Mayer Pdf

Enlightenment – both the phenomenon specific to the eighteenth century and the continuing trend in Western thought – is an attempt to dispel ignorance, achieve mastery of a potentially hostile environment, and contain fear of the unknown by promoting science and rationality. Enlightenment is often accompanied and challenged by countercultures such as German Romanticism, which explored the nature of fear and deployed it as a corrective to the excesses of rationalism. The Aesthetics of Fear in German Romanticism uncovers the formative role this movement played in the development of dark or negative aesthetics. Recovering a missing chapter in the history of the aesthetics of fear, Paola Mayer illustrates that Romanticism was a crucial transitional phase between the eighteenth-century sublime and the early twentieth-century uncanny. Mayer puts literature and philosophy in dialogue, examining how German Romantic literature employed narratives of fear to radicalize and then subvert the status quo in society, culture, and science. She traces the development of this aesthetic from its inception with pre-Romantics such as Jean Paul Richter to its end in Joseph von Eichendorff's critical retrospective, and juxtaposes canonical authors such as E.T.A. Hoffmann – the father of the modern fantastic – with writers who have previously been ignored. Today, when the dark side of science looms in the foreground, The Aesthetics of Fear in German Romanticism points to the power of a literary movement to construct competing currents of thought.

Author : Linda Siegel
Publisher : Branden Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN : 0828316597

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Caspar David Friedrich and the Age of German Romanticism by Linda Siegel Pdf

Author : Ernst Behler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1993-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521325851

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German Romantic Literary Theory by Ernst Behler Pdf

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

Author : Laurie Ruth Johnson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781571139115

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Forgotten Dreams by Laurie Ruth Johnson Pdf

Offers not only an analytical study of the films of Herzog, perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but also a new reading of Romanticism's impact beyond the nineteenth century and in the present.

Author : MitchellBenjamin Frank
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351565653

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German Romantic Painting Redefined by MitchellBenjamin Frank Pdf

The modernist aesthetic and, later, Nazi ideology split German Romantic painting into two opposed phases, an early progressive movement, represented by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) and Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810), and a later reactionary one - epitomized by Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869) and Peter von Cornelius (1783-1867). In this rich and engaging book, Mitchell Frank explores the continuities between these two phases to reconstruct the historical position that existed in the nineteenth century and to look once again at the Nazarenes - and Overbeck in particular - as a fully integrated part of the Romantic movement. His innovative book is crucial to an understanding of German Romanticism and the legacy of this period in European art.

Author : Ronald Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000768701

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The Romantic Tradition in Germany by Ronald Taylor Pdf

Originally published in 1970, this book surveys the central philosophical and aesthetic doctrines which characterize German Romanticism. A selection of literary, philosophical and political essays by some of the most important German Romantic thinkers illustrates the principal themes: these range from philosophical idealism and aesthetic subjectivism to folklore and emergent German nationalism, from exotica and medievalism to irrationality and the metaphysics of music. Introductory essays explain the significance of the particular aspects of the Romantic tradition which are revealed in each passage, and commentaries not only elucidate allusions and references which are not immediately identifiable, but draw attention to wider issues, either in the work of that author or in the context of 19th Century German culture as a whole.

Author : Sean Moore Ireton,Caroline Schaumann
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571135025

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Heights of Reflection by Sean Moore Ireton,Caroline Schaumann Pdf

Examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Mountains have always stirred the human imagination, playing a crucial role in the cultural evolution of peoples around the globe and becoming infused with meaning in the process. Beyond their geographical-geological significance, mountains affect the topography of the mind, whether as objects of peril or attraction, of spiritual enlightenment or existential fulfillment, of philosophical contemplation or aesthetic inspiration. This volume challenges the oversimplified assumption that human interaction with mountains is a distinctly modern development, one that began with the empowerment of the individual in the wake of Enlightenment rationalism and Romantic subjectivity. These essays by European and North American scholars examine the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, with a focus on the interaction between humans and the alpineenvironment. The contributors consider mountains not as mere symbolic tropes or literary metaphors, but as constituting a tangible reality that informs the experiences and ideas of writers, naturalists, philosophers, filmmakers, and composers. Overall, this volume seeks to provide multiple answers to questions regarding the cultural significance of mountains as well as the physical practice of climbing them. Contributors: Peter Arnds, Olaf Berwald, Albrecht Classen, Roger Cook, Scott Denham, Sean Franzel, Christof Hamann, Harald Höbusch, Dan Hooley, Peter Höyng, Sean Ireton, Oliver Lubrich, Anthony Ozturk, Caroline Schaumann, Heather I. Sullivan, Johannes Türk, Sabine Wilke, Wilfried Wilms. SEAN IRETON is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri. CAROLINE SCHAUMANN is Professor of German Studies at Emory University.

Author : Deniz Tekiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art and society
ISBN : UOM:39076001999759

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Modern Art and the Romantic Vision by Deniz Tekiner Pdf

In Modern Art and the Romantic Vision, Deniz Tekiner describes several prominent features of German Romanticism and explores the presence of these features in later art forms including French Symbolist art, the early abstract art of Mondrian and Kandinsky, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, and Earthworks. Stimulating and insightful, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the intellectual foundations of modern art.