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

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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.
Temas:
1700-1799
German literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > Germany > History > 18th century.
Epic literature, German > History and criticism.
Littérature allemande > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Politique et littérature > Allemagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Littérature épique allemande > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Epic literature, German
German literature
Politics and literature
Germany
18th-Century German Literature.
C. Brentano.
C.M. Wieland.
Community.
Epic.
F.G. Klopstock.
J.W. Goethe.
Political Imaginary.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • 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.

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