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The Epic Imaginary : Political Power and Its Legitimations in Eighteenth-Century German Literature.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Payne, Charlton
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012.
Colección:Studien zur deutschen Literatur.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (224 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and indexes.
ISBN:9783110271997
3110271990
9781283628310
1283628317
9786613940766
6613940763