Crossing Boundaries : Towards a Theory and History of Essay Writing in German, 1680-1815 /

Crossing Boundaries focuses on the intellectual and social factors that led to the emergence and first flowering of the German essay.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: McCarthy, John A.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Sujets:
1500-1899
German essays > History and criticism.
Essay.
German prose literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
German prose literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
German prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Enlightenment > Germany.
Essais allemands > Histoire et critique.
Essai (Genre littéraire)
Prose allemande > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Prose allemande > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Siècle des Lumières > Allemagne.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Comparative Literature.
Enlightenment
Essay
German essays
German prose literature
Intellectual life
Germany > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Allemagne > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
Germany
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Risk Taking: On Reading and Enlightenment
  • 2. Attitude and Form
  • 3. Essay or Essayism?
  • 4. The World of Eighteenth-Century Thought
  • 5. The Ethics of Writing and Reading
  • 6. The Poetry of Prose
  • 7. The Dialectic Muse Awakes: Essayistic Writing 1680-1750
  • 8. The Dialectic Muse Soars I: Essayistic Prose 1750-1790
  • 9. The Dialectic Muse Soars II: Essayistic Writing 1770-1815
  • 10. Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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