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The Literature of Weimar Classicism CHHGL 7: Camden House History of German Literature

Autor Simon Richter, Astrida Orle Tantillo, Benjamin K. Bennett, Charles A. Grair, Cyrus Hamlin
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 sep 2005
In Germany, Weimar Classicism (roughly the period from Goethe's return to Germany from Italy in 1788 to the death of his friend and collaborator Schiller in 1805) is widely regarded as an apogee of literary art. But outside of Germany, Goethe is considered a Romantic, and the notion of Weimar Classicism as a distinct period is viewed with skepticism. This volume of new essays regards the question of literary period as a red herring: Weimar Classicism is best understood as a project that involved the ambitious attempt not only to imagine but also to achieve a new quality of wholeness in human life and culture at a time when fragmentation, division, and alienation appeared to be thenorm. By not succumbing to the myth of Weimar and its literary giants, but being willing to explore the phenomenon as a complex cultural system with a unique signature, this book provides an account of its shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values. Contributions from leading German, British, and North American scholars open up multiple interdisciplinary perspectives on the period. Essays on the novel, poetry, drama, and theater are joined by accounts of politics, philosophy, visual culture, women writers, and science. The reader is introduced to the full panoply of cultural life in Weimar, its accomplishments as well as its excesses and follies. Emancipatory and doctrinaire by turns, the project of Weimar Classicism is best approached as a complex whole.

Contributors: Dieter Borchmeyer, Charles Grair, Gail Hart, Thomas Saine, Jane Brown, Cyrus Hamlin, Roger Stephenson, Elisabeth Krimmer, Helmut Pfotenhauer, Benjamin Bennett, Astrida Orle Tantillo, W. Daniel Wilson.

Simon J. Richter is Associate Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781571132499
ISBN-10: 157113249X
Pagini: 420
Dimensiuni: 159 x 236 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Editura: CAMDEN HOUSE
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Notă biografică

Simon J. Richter

Cuprins

Introduction - Simon Richter What is Classicism? - Dieter Borchmeyer Antiquity and Weimar Classicism - Charles A. Grair The Correspondence of Goethe and Schiller - Gail K. Hart Johann Gottfried Herder: The Weimar Classic behind the (City)Church - Thomas P. Saine Classical Drama and Theatrical Practice in Weimar - Jane K. Brown German Classical Poetry - Cyrus Hamlin The Novel in Weimar Classicism: Symbolic Form and Symbolic Pregnance - Roger Stephenson German Women Writers and Classicism - Elisabeth Krimmer Weimar Classicism as Visual Culture - Helmut Pfotenhauer The Irrelevance of Aesthetics and the De-Theorizing of the Self in "Classical" - Benjamin K. Bennett Goethe's "Classical" Science - Astrida Orle Tantillo Weimar Classicism and the French Revolution - W. Daniel Wilson