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1 online resource (224 pages) |
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Studien zur deutschen Literatur ; v. 197 |
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Studien zur deutschen Literatur.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The Epic Imaginary in Eighteenth-Century German Literature; The Imaginary; The Epic Imaginary and Literary History; Epic and Political Poetics; 1. The Epic Genre and the Question of Legitimacy in Eighteenth-Century Poetics; Legitimations I: Gottsched; Legitimations II: Bodmer and Breitinger; Blankenburg 1774: The Theory of the Novel; Blankenburg's Literarische Zusätze zu Johann Georg Sulzers Allgemeiner Theorie der Schönen Künste (1796-1798): "Der neuere Held"; Merck: Epic Naiveté; Herder: "Genealogie älterer Meister." |
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2. The Epic Prosody of the Sublime Nation: Klopstock's MessiasThe Mimesis of the Epic and Epic Mimesis: Klopstock's Theory of Hexameter as "Darstellung"; The High Priests of the Nation: Klopstock's Supplementary Epic Community; Excursus: The Passions of Klopstock and Badiou; 3. The Politics and Poetics of Epic World Citizenship in Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea; Figures of Character; The Laws of Epic Poetry; 4. Wieland's Parodic Humanism; Wieland's Parodic Humanism: Oberon in Context (Part I); "Das Volk," Cosmopolitanism, and Sovereignty in Wieland's Political Essays |
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Irregularity in Wieland's Humanism: Oberon Beyond ParodyEpilogue: Brentano's Romanzen vom Rosenkranz and the Romantic Epic; A.W. Schlegel's Anthropology of Poetry: Or, the Birth of Meter out of the Nature of Rhythm; Philological Legitimacy and the Invention of Romantic Epic; Romanzen vom Rosenkranz; Bibliography; Index of Subjects; Index of Names |
| Summary |
This study traces how calls for poetic legitimations of community led particular eighteenth-century epics to explore an originary incompleteness of political power and its narrative legitimations. The analysis uncovers a new type of epic emerging in the second half of the eighteenth century in texts by Klopstock, Goethe, Wieland, and Brentano that enacts the disruptive potential of poetic language and narrative to question the legitimations of imaginary political origins and unities |
| Analysis |
18th-Century German Literature |
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C. Brentano |
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C.M. Wieland |
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Community |
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Epic |
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F.G. Klopstock |
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J.W. Goethe |
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Political Imaginary |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Politics and literature -- Germany -- History -- 18th century
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Epic literature, German -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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Epic literature, German
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German literature
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Politics and literature
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012022437 |
| ISBN |
9783110271997 |
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3110271990 |
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9781283628310 |
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1283628317 |
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9786613940766 |
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6613940763 |
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