The Revivifying word : literature, philosophy, and the theory of life in europe's romantic age /

'What is not 'Life' that really is?' asked Coleridge, struggling, like many poets, philosophers, and scientists of Europe's Romantic age, to formulate a theory of life that explained the mysterious relation between dead material bodies and living, animate beings. Romantic in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Koelb, Clayton, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, ©2008.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Temas:
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Romanticism.
Littérature > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Romantisme.
romanticism (form of expression)
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Literature > Theory, etc.
Romanticism
Literatur
Philosophie
Lesen > Motiv
Romantik
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: "The dead man's life": romantic reading and revivification
  • "The sound which echoes in our soul": the romantic aesthetics of matter and spirit
  • "Spirit thanks only through the body": materialist spiritualism in romantic Europe
  • "The heavenly revelation of her spirit": Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther
  • "O read for pity's sake!": Keat's Endymion
  • "Graecum est, non legitur": Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris
  • "Spiritual communication": Gautier's Spirite
  • "Eat this scroll": Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas"
  • "I sickened as I read": Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
  • "Those who, being dead, are yet alive": Maturin's Melmoth the wanderer
  • "This hideous drama of revivification": Poe and the rhetoric of terror.

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