Romantic poetry / edited by Angela Esterhammer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Esterhammer, Angela.

Series:

Comparative history of literatures in European languages ; v. 17.

A Comparative history of literatures in European languages, 0238-0668 ; v. 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European poetry--18th century--History and criticism.

European poetry.

European poetry--17th century--History and criticism.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

xi, 537 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Romantic Poetry encompasses twenty-seven new essays by prominent scholars on the influences and interrelations among Romantic movements throughout Europe and the Americas. It provides an expansive overview of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry in the European languages. The essays take account of interrelated currents in American, Argentinian, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Canadian, Caribbean, Chilean, Colombian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Mexican, Norwegian, Peruvian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, and Uruguayan literature. Contributors adopt different models for comparative study: tracing a theme or motif through several literatures; developing innovative models of transnational influence; studying the role of Romantic poetry in socio-political developments; or focusing on an issue that appears most prominently in one national literature yet is illuminated by the international context. This collaborative volume provides an invaluable resource for students of comparative literature and Romanticism.SPECIAL OFFER: 30% discount for a complete set order (5 vols.).The Romanticism series in the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages is the result of a remarkable international collaboration. The editorial team coordinated the efforts of over 100 experts from more than two dozen countries to produce five independently conceived, yet interrelated volumes that show not only how Romanticism developed and spread in its principal European homelands and throughout the New World, but also the ways in which the affected literatures in reaction to Romanticism have redefined themselves on into Modernism. A glance at the index of each volume quickly reveals the extraordinary richness of the series' total contents. Romantic Irony sets the

broader experimental parameters of comparison by concentrating on the myriad expressions of "irony" as one of the major impulses in the Romantic philosophical and artistic revolution, and by combining cross-cultural and interdisciplinary studies with special attention also to literatures in less widely diffused language streams. Romantic Drama traces creative innovations that deeply altered the understanding of genre at large, fed popular imagination through vehicles like the opera, and laid the foundations for a modernist theater of the absurd. Romantic Poetry demonstrates deep patterns and a sharing of crucial themes of the revolutionary age which underlie the lyrical expression that flourished in so many languages and environments. Nonfictional Romantic Prose assists us in coping with the vast array of writings from the personal and intimate sphere to modes of public discourse, including Romanticism's own self-commentary in theoretical statements on the arts, society, life, the sciences, and more. Nor are the discursive dimensions of imaginative literature neglected in the closing volume, Romantic Prose Fiction, where the basic Romantic themes and story types (the romance, novel, novella, short story, and other narrative forms) are considered throughout Europe and the New World. This enormous realm is seen not just in terms of Romantic theorizing, but in the light of the impact of Romantic ideas and narration on later generations. As an aid to readers, the introduction to Romantic Prose Fiction explains the relationships among the volumes in the series and carries a listing of their tables of contents in an appendix. No other series exists comparable to these volumes which treat the entirety of Romanticism as a cultural happening across the whole breadth of the "Old" and "New" Worlds and thus render a complex picture of European spiritual

strivings in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, a heritage still very close to our age.

Contents:

Romantic Poetry

Editorial page

Title page

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Contents

Introduction

Section 1: The Evolution of Sensibility and Representation

Autumn in the Romantic Lyric

Reflection as Mimetic Trope

On Romantic Cognition

Vörösmarty and the Poetic Fragment in Hungarian Romanticism

Loss and Expectation

Poetry as Self-Consumption

Section 2: The Evolution of Genre

Lyric Poetry in the Early Romantic Theory of the Schlegel Brothers

The Romantic Ode

The European Romantic Epic and the History of a Genre

The Sublime Sonnet in European Romanticism

Elegiac Muses

Section 3: Romantic Poetry and National Projects

Awakening Peripheries

''National Poets'' in the Romantic Age

Romanian Poetry and the Great Romantic Narrative about the Mission of the Poet

Greek Romanticism

Time and History in Spanish Romantic Poetry

The Experience of the City in British Romantic Poetry

''Sons of Song''

Near the Rapids

Address and Its Dialectics in American Romantic Poetry

Romantic Poetry in Latin America

Section 4: Interpretations, Re-creations, and Performances of Romantic Poetry

Baudelaire's Re-reading of Romanticism

Nachtigallenwahnsinn and Rabbinismus

Reception as Performance

Implications of an Influence

Organicist Poetics as Romantic Heritage?

The Uses of Romantic Poetry

Index of Names

Index of Titles.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789027297761

9027297762

9781282162167

1282162160

OCLC:

70769115