Imagination In German Romanticism

Author : Jeanne Riou
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820471984

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Imagination in German Romanticism by Jeanne Riou Pdf

In German Romanticism, the imagination is the site of the encounter between the subject and its environment; this book examines that encounter. Dealing with both literary and philosophical texts, it argues that the Romantic imagination performs a critique of rationalism. In reflecting on the fragmentary, the Romantics require the reader to both imagine and to question this as a hermeneutic process. As such, they understand writing to be an experiment in memory, both individual and cultural. This book is a study of the writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Novalis, Tieck and also of the utopian project of Romanticism itself. Methodologically, it is informed by what Foucault termed the archaeological approach to discourse as well as by psychoanalysis and literary theory. Examining points of contact as well of divergence between Kantian epistemology and Romantic nature philosophy, it also highlights the correspondences between literature, philosophy and science. Above all, it treats Romanticism as an experiment in the portrayal of ambivalent modern identity.

Author : Gerad Gentry,Konstantin Pollok
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107197701

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The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism by Gerad Gentry,Konstantin Pollok Pdf

Explores imagination and human rationality in a crucial period of philosophy, from hermeneutics and transcendental logic to ethics and aesthetics.

Author : Christopher R. Clason,Joseph D. Rockelmann,Christina M. Weiler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : German literature
ISBN : 1032319860

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Memory in German Romanticism by Christopher R. Clason,Joseph D. Rockelmann,Christina M. Weiler Pdf

"Memory in German Romanticism treats memory as a core element in the production and reception of German art and literature of the Romantic era. The contributors explore the artistic expression of memory under the categories of imagination, image, and reception. Romantic literary aesthetics raises the subjective imagination to a level of primary importance for the creation of art. It goes beyond challenging reason and objectivity, two leading intellectual faculties of eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and instead elevates subjective invention to form and sustain memory and imagination. Indeed, memory and imagination, both cerebral functions, seek to assemble the elements of one's own experience, either directed toward the past (memory) or toward the future (imagination), coherently into a narrative. And like memories, images hold the potential to elicit charged emotional responses; those responses live on through time, becoming part of the spatial and temporal reception of the artist and their work. While imagination creates and images trigger and capture memories, reception creates a temporal-spatial context for art, organizing it and rendering it "memorable," both for good and for bad. Thus, through the categories of imagination, images, and reception, this volume explores the phenomenon of German Romantic memory from different perspectives and in new contexts"--

Author : James Garratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139433938

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Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination by James Garratt Pdf

Focusing on the reception of Palestrina, this bold interdisciplinary study explains how and why the works of a sixteenth-century composer came to be viewed as a paradigm for modern church music. It explores the diverse ways in which later composers responded to his works and style, and expounds a provocative model for interpreting compositional historicism. In addition to presenting insights into the works of Bruckner, Mendelssohn and Liszt, the book offers fresh perspectives on the institutional, aesthetic and ideological frameworks sustaining the cultivation of choral music in this period. This publication provides an overview and analysis of the relation between the Palestrina revival and nineteenth-century composition and it demonstrates that the Palestrina revival was just as significant for nineteenth-century culture as parallel movements in the other arts, such as the Gothic revival.

Author : Chenxi Tang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804758390

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The Geographic Imagination of Modernity by Chenxi Tang Pdf

This book is a study of the emergence of the geographic paradigm in modern Western thought around 1800.

Author : Brad Prager
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Ernst Behler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141198811

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Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann by Anonim Pdf

'It was a very momentous day, the day on which I was to be slaughtered' Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years. Ranging from the Romantics of the early nineteenth century to works of contemporary fiction, it includes Hoffmann's hallucinatory portrait of terror and insanity 'The Sandman'; Chamisso's influential black masterpiece 'Peter Schlemiel', where a man barters his own shadow; Kafka's chilling, disturbing satire 'In the Penal Colony'; the Dadaist surrealism of Kurt Schwitters' 'The Onion'; and Bachmann's modern fairy tale 'The Secrets of the Princess of Kagran'. Macabre, dreamlike and expressing deep unconscious fears, these stories are also spiked with unsettling humour, showing stylistic daring as well as giving insight into the darkest recesses of the human condition. Peter Wortsman's powerful translations are accompanied by brief overviews of the lives of each author, and an introduction discussing the notion of 'angst' and the stories' place in the context of German history. Translated, selected and edited with an introduction by Peter Wortsman

Author : Siobhán Donovan,Robin Elliott
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1571132589

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Music and Literature in German Romanticism by Siobhán Donovan,Robin Elliott Pdf

During the Romantic era, many in Germany believed music to be the highest art form, representing the quintessence of Romanticism and able to express what could not be expressed in words. This book studies the work of composers during this period and examines the cross-over between music and literature.

Author : Christopher R. Clason,Joseph D. Rockelmann,Christina M. Weiler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000839067

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Memory in German Romanticism by Christopher R. Clason,Joseph D. Rockelmann,Christina M. Weiler Pdf

Memory in German Romanticism treats memory as a core element in the production and reception of German art and literature of the Romantic era. The contributors explore the artistic expression of memory under the categories of imagination, image, and reception. Romantic literary aesthetics raises the subjective imagination to a level of primary importance for the creation of art. It goes beyond challenging reason and objectivity, two leading intellectual faculties of eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and instead elevates subjective invention to form and sustain memory and imagination. Indeed, memory and imagination, both cognitive functions, seek to assemble the elements of one’s own experience, either directed toward the past (memory) or toward the future (imagination), coherently into a narrative. And like memories, images hold the potential to elicit charged emotional responses; those responses live on through time, becoming part of the spatial and temporal reception of the artist and their work. While imagination generates and images trigger and capture memories, reception creates a temporal-spatial context for art, organizing it and rendering it "memorable," both for good and for bad. Thus, through the categories of imagination, image, and reception, this volume explores the phenomenon of German Romantic memory from different perspectives and in new contexts.

Author : Richard C. Sha
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421439839

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Imagination and Science in Romanticism by Richard C. Sha Pdf

Sha concludes that both fields benefited from thinking about how imagination could cooperate with reason—but that this partnership was impossible unless imagination's penchant for fantasy could be contained.

Author : Manfred Frank
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791485804

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The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism by Manfred Frank Pdf

Often portrayed as a movement of poets lost in swells of passion, early German Romanticism has been generally overlooked by scholars in favor of the great system-builders of the post-Kantian period, Schelling and Hegel. In the twelve lectures collected here, Manfred Frank redresses this oversight, offering an in-depth exploration of the philosophical contributions and contemporary relevance of early German Romanticism. Arguing that the early German Romantics initiated an original movement away from idealism, Frank brings the leading figures of the movement, Friedrich Schlegel and Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis), into concert with contemporary philosophical developments, and explores the role that Friedrich Hölderlin and other members of the Homburg Circle had upon the development of early German Romantic philosophy.

Author : Richard T. Gray,Nicholas Halmi,Gary J. Handwerk,Michael A. Rosenthal,Klaus Vieweg
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780295801650

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Inventions of the Imagination by Richard T. Gray,Nicholas Halmi,Gary J. Handwerk,Michael A. Rosenthal,Klaus Vieweg Pdf

The dialectic between reason and imagination forms a key element in Romantic and post- Romantic philosophy, science, literature, and art. Inventions of the Imagination explores the diverse theories and assessments of this dialectic in essays by philosophers and literary and cultural critics. By the end of the eighteenth century, reason as the predominant human faculty had run its course, and imagination emerged as another force whose contributions to human intellectual existence and productivity had to be newly calculated and constantly recalibrated. The attempt to establish a universal form of reason alongside a plurality of imaginative capacities describes the ideological program of modernism from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. This collection chronicles some of the vicissitudes in the conceptualization and evaluation of the imagination across time and in various disciplines.

Author : Roger Cardinal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Arts
ISBN : UCAL:$B614453

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German Romantics in Context by Roger Cardinal Pdf

Author : Nicholas Saul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521848916

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The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism by Nicholas Saul Pdf

Explains the development of Romantic arts and culture in Germany, with both individual artists and key themes covered in detail.