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