Studies In Weimar Classicism

Author : Roger H. Stephenson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Aesthetics, Modern
ISBN : 3039110853

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Studies in Weimar Classicism by Roger H. Stephenson Pdf

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.

Author : Paul Bishop,Roger H. Stephenson
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1571132805

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Friedrich Nietzsche and Weimar Classicism (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) by Paul Bishop,Roger H. Stephenson Pdf

"The book provides an overview of related scholarly literature; discusses Nietzsche's aesthetic theory in The Birth of Tragedy; recounts the composition of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and offers an interpretation of the "aesthetic gospel" in this centeal work. A concluding chapter explores the continuities in aesthetic theory from Leucippus to Ernst Cassirer. By demonstrating the constitutive function of the aesthetics of Weimar classicism in his philosophy, this book opens up a fresh and original perspective on reading Nietzsche."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : David Gallagher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Classicism
ISBN : 0773420576

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Weimar Classicism by David Gallagher Pdf

WEIMAR CLASSICISM: This descriptive term, designating a unique and verybrief epoch of literary and cultural achievement in Germany, is familiar to everystudent of German literature and culture. It was not always so. Only toward theend of the nineteenth century was the term introduced retrospectively in referenceto the few years at the end of the preceding century, which marked the high pointof the career of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who resided in the otherwise smalland provincial Duchy of Weimar and whose achievement as man of lettersestablished what ultimately came to be called OCyClassicism.OCO These were also theyears of the close friendship of Goethe with the dramatist and Kantian theoristFriedrich Schiller, documented by the nearly daily exchange of letters between thetwo OCo Schiller lived at the time in nearby Jena OCo which Goethe edited andpublished more than twenty years after SchillerOCOs death. The essays assembled inthe present volume would all acknowledge the legitimacy of this designation, even though they are addressed to various peripheral aspects of WeimarClassicism, related to but distinct from the work of its two central authors (theessay by T. J. Reed is the exception)."

Author : Simon Richter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571132499

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The Literature of Weimar Classicism by Simon Richter Pdf

New essays providing an account of the shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values of Weimar Classicism.

Author : Simon Richter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:58546257

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The Literature of Weimar Classicism by Simon Richter Pdf

Author : Paul Bishop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134086283

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Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller, and Jung Volume 2 by Paul Bishop Pdf

Like its previous volume, this book aims to clarify the intellectual continuity between Weimar classicism and analytical psychology. It will interest students and scholars of analytical psychology, comparative literature, and the history of ideas.

Author : Burkhard Henke,Susanne Kord,Simon Richter
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1571131949

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Unwrapping Goethe's Weimar by Burkhard Henke,Susanne Kord,Simon Richter Pdf

The contributors have uniformly retooled their perspective on Weimar to take into account the pressing concerns of class, gender, and sexuality. As a result, readers will continue to appreciate Weimar culture circa 1800 as a splendidly dynamic place, rich with social, political, and artistic energy, and still revolving around Goethe. At the same time, however, they will be made aware of the class and gender inequities that were a condition for Weimar's flourishing high and hybrid culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Richard Hibbitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351196291

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Dilettantism and Its Values by Richard Hibbitt Pdf

"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."

Author : Lesley Sharpe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521665604

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The Cambridge Companion to Goethe by Lesley Sharpe Pdf

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.

Author : Simon J. Richter,Simon Richter
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571132635

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Goethe Yearbook 11 by Simon J. Richter,Simon Richter Pdf

Eighteen new articles on the works of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit, along with the customary book review section. The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America. It publishes original contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit. Its book review section evaluates awide selection of publications on the period, and is important for all scholars of 18th-century literature. The eighteen articles in this volume treat a wide range of topics. The volume opens with the last work of the late StuartAtkins, on Renaissance and Baroque elements in Faust, and proceeds to a critical appreciation of the Goethe scholarship of the late Géza von Molnár, before offering Molnár's last essay, also on Faust. A number of articles explore questions of the "Ich," the Ego, and subjectivity in the writings of Goethe and of others of his age such as Rousseau, Moritz, Fichte, and Novalis. Three articles deal with Faust, one with Götz von Berlichingen's Weislingen, one with the genealogy of the poem 'Auf dem See, ' and one with Egmont. An article focuses on the women figures in Wilhelm Meister, and there is a short story titled 'Mignon' by Irmgard ElsnerHunt. Other articles explore Grillparzer's Sappho, Wilhelm Müller's Lieder der Griechen, and Karls Enkel's Dahin! Dahin! Ein Göte-Abend. There is also a Laudatio to Daniel Barenboim in addition to the customary book review section. Contributors: Stewart Atkins, Katharina Mommsen, Peter Fenves, Géza von Molnár, Fritz Breithaupt, Anthony Krupp, Elliott Schreiber, Edgar Landgraf, Horst Lange, Volker Kaiser, Rainer Nägele, Martha B. Helfer, Marion Schmaus, Brigitte Prutti, Charles A. Grair, Lorna Fitzsimmons, Irmgard Elsner Hunt. Book review editor is Martha B. Helfer. Simon J. Richter is associate professor of German at the Universityof Pennsylvania.

Author : Gerhart Hoffmeister
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018338645

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A Reassessment of Weimar Classicism by Gerhart Hoffmeister Pdf

These essays offer a wide range of topics treated from literary, interdisciplinary, and comparative points of view. The book falls into three sections: Weimar and Goethe; Weimar and German Literary Culture; Weimar Abroad; with a closure on Weimar and the Political Aftermath.

Author : Matthew Charles
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350013957

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Modernism Between Benjamin and Goethe by Matthew Charles Pdf

Widely regarded as one of the foremost cultural critics of the last century, Walter Benjamin's relation to Modernism has largely been understood in the context of his reception of the aesthetic theories of Early German Romanticism and his associated interest in avant-garde Surrealism. But this Romantic understanding only gives half the picture. Running through Benjamin's thought is also a critique of Romanticism, developed in conjunction with a positive engagement with the philosophical, artistic and historical writings of J. W. von Goethe. In demonstrating the significance of these Goethean elements, this book challenges the dominant understanding of Benjamin's philosophy as essentially Romantic and instead proposes that Goethe's Classicism, conceived as the counterpoint to Romanticism, permits a corrective to the latter's deficiencies. Benjamin's Modernist concept of criticism, it is argued, is constituted in the movement between these polarities of Romanticism and Classicism. Conversely, placing Goethe's Classicism in relation to Benjamin's practice of literary criticism reveals historical tensions with Romanticism that constitute the untimely – indeed, it will be argued, cinematic – Modernism of his work. Adopting a transcritical approach, this book alternates between Benjamin and Goethe in relation to the experiences of colour, language and technology, assembling a constellation of philosophical and artistic figures between them, including the writings of Kant, Nietzsche, Cohen, Deleuze, Koselleck, Klages, and the work of Grünewald, Marées, Klee, Turner, Hulme, Eisenstein, Tretyakov, and Murnau.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401202978

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Schiller: National Poet – Poet of Nations by Anonim Pdf

To mark the 200th anniversary of Schiller’s death, leading scholars from Germany, Canada, the UK and the USA have contributed to this volume of commemorative essays. These were first presented at a symposium held at the University of Birmingham in June 2005. The essays collected here shed important new light on Schiller’s standing as a national and transnational figure , both in his own lifetime and in the two hundred years since his death. Issues explored include: aspects of Schiller’s life and work which contributed to the creation of heroic and nationalist myths of the poet during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; his activities as man of the theatre and publisher in his own, pre-national context; the (trans-)national dimensions of Schiller’s poetic and dramatic achievement in their contemporary context and with reference to later appropriations of national(ist) elements in his work. The contributions to this volume illuminate Schiller’s achievements as poet, playwright, thinker and historian, and bring acute insights to bear on both the history of his impact in a variety of contexts and his enduring importance as a point of cultural reference.

Author : Charlotte Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351539715

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The Very Late Goethe by Charlotte Lee Pdf

Goethe's career was an unusually long and productive one: he became a literary celebrity in the 1770s and remained so until his death in 1832. The distinguishing feature of his last works is their self-consciousness, their preoccupation both with the business of writing and with personal development. In the first cross-genre study of this period of Goethe's work, Charlotte Lee traces the theme in his last major poems and autobiographical writings, before turning to the two 'giants', 'Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre' and 'Faust II'. All these works share a tendency to allude subtly to earlier moments from Goethe's own literary output, but to fashion them into writing which is quite new - even though (or perhaps because) he himself is old. This book seeks to understand the unique perspective of one nearing the end of a long life.

Author : Scott D. Denham,Irene Kacandes,Jonathan Petropoulos
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472066560

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A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies by Scott D. Denham,Irene Kacandes,Jonathan Petropoulos Pdf

Capitalizes on the ripeness of the German case for interdisciplinary investigation