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Romantic affinities : German authors and Carlyle : a study in the history of ideas /

Carlyle sw German Romanticism as a continuation of Goethe's efforts to oppose the rationalistic tendencies of the Enlightenment. the fusion of philosophy and poetry in German literature and its novelty in concept and form attracted Carlyle and became central to his emblematic vision.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vida, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Maximiliana), 1923-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1993.
Colección:Heritage.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Preface; Introduction; 1 Critical Inroads (Essays, German Romance); The Effect of F. Schlegel on Carlyle as Literary Critic; Franz Horn's Critical Function; PART ONE FICTIONAL TECHNIQUES AND DEVICES IN GERMAN SOURCES (Sartor); 2 Eccentric Originals and Their Editors; Early German Originals; Jean Paul's Theory of Humour; E.T.A. Hoffmann's Eccentrics and Tieck's Der Gelehrte; Sauerteig's Relationship to German Originals; The Editor in Goethe, Jean Paul, Hoffmann, and Hauff; 3 The Idylls of Teufelsdröckh; Youth at Entepfuhl and Wahrheit aus Jean Pauls Leben
  • Teufelsdröckh's Romance and Jean Paul's Concept of LoveKater Murr and Peter Lebrecht as Influences on Carlyle's Love Image; 4 Spiritual Autobiographies, German Style; Self-Revelation in the Protestant Tradition; 'Die schöne Seele' in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre; Faust's Struggle with Doubt and Despair; Doubt Removed by Faith in Fichte's Die Bestimmung des Menschen; PART TWO LEADING THEMES (Sartor, Heroes, Past and Present); 5 A German Philosophy of Clothes; Supernatural Garments; Natural Clothes; Literary Clothes; 6 Renunciation as a Way of Life; Goethe: Entsagen and Its Relation to Action
  • Fichte: Renunciation and the 'Divine Idea'Novalis: Selbsttödtung; Werner: Renunciation and Vision; 7 'Das Ewige Nein' and 'Das Ewige Ja'; Centre of Indifference; Further Contributions by Franz Horn; A New Source in Fouqué's Sängerkrieg; Centre of Indifference and Gleichgewichtszentrum; 8 Palingenesia or Newbirth of Society; Patterns of Change; The Time-Spirit; Heroes and Their Worshippers; The Promised Land; PART THREE STYLISTIC ASPECTS (Sartor); 9 Jean Paul and No End; Carlyle's Creative Application of Jean Paul's Style and Word Power
  • Appendix: Table of Carlyle's Favourite Passages from Jean Paul's Works10 Concluding Remarks; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index