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Romantic prose fiction /
In this volume a team of three dozen international experts presents a fresh picture of literary prose fiction in the Romantic age seen from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. The work treats the appearance of major themes in characteristically Romantic versions, the power of Romantic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Comparative history of literatures in European languages ;
v. 23. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Romantic Prose Fiction; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Contents; Part I. Characteristic themes; Part II. Paradigms of Romantic fiction; A. Generic types and representative texts; B. Modes of discourse and narrative structures; Part III. Contributions of Romanticism to 19th and 20th century writing and thought; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Romanticism subseries; 2. The prose projects; 3. Romantic Prose Fiction; Part One: Characteristic themes; The French Revolution and prose fiction; 1. Germany; 1.1 Friedrich Maximilian Klinger; 1.2 The female novel; 1.3 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
- 1.4 Joseph von Eichendorff2. England; 3. France; 4. Conclusion; 4.1 Narrative technique; 4.2 History or romance; Bibliography; Wertherism and the Romantic Weltanschauung; 1. Werther as a prototype; 2. Wertherism; 3. Werther and his brothers; 4. Wertherism I: Italy and France. Foscolo, Nodier, Germaine de Staël, Mme de Krüdener, Chateaubriand, Senancour; 5. Wertherism II: Sutsos, Byron, Wilhelm Müller, Mickiewicz, Pushkin; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography; Romanticism and the idealization of the artist; 1. Wilhelm Meister as epochal marker; 2. Herzensergiessungen as Romantic response.
- 3. Heinrich von Ofterdingen contra Wilhelm Meister4. Wotton Reinfred as a British response; 5. St Leon and Frankenstein: The problem of creativity; 6. Schopenhauer and Romantic aestheticism: A legacy for modernism; Bibliography; Unheard melodies and unseen paintings; 1. Use and mention; 2. Ut musica poesis; 3. Imaginary works of art; 4. "Real" paintings; 5. The "real" and the "imaginary"; line vs. color; 6. Architecture: The Romantic interpretation of the past; Bibliography; Music and Romantic narration; 1. Music
- a German passion? Forms and fortunes of the theme.
- 2. Romantic narration and musical (gender) order3. Dissonance, clowning and hoarseness: Le Neveu de Rameau (Rameau's Nephew) as precursor; 4. Contrapuntal writing or "gyration"?; 5. Music in (everyday) life; 6. Late echoes and stylistic quotations; 7. The complicated case of Romantic opera; 7.1 The German opera on its way to the "total work of art"; 7.2 Romantic Opera: A national project or an international event?; 7.3 Meyerbeer and Berlioz: Opera as social phenomenon; Bibliography; Nature and landscape between exoticism and national areas of imagination.
- 1. Virgin wilderness and sublimity: Exotic landscapes2. The semiotics of nature; 3. Nature as "an expression of relations created in our hearts"; 4. Towards "Realism": Landscape and national identity; Bibliography; Mountain landscape and the aesthetics of the sublime in Romantic narration; 1. Rousseau; 2. Goethe; 3. Ludwig Tieck; 4. Ugo Foscolo; 5. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Bibliography; The "Wanderer" in Romantic prose fiction; 1. Reflexive phase, or the peregrinations; 2. Gothic phase of frantic despair and provocation; 3. Cycle of fantastic metamorphosis.