Rhetoric, poetics, and literary historiography : the formation of a discipline at the turn of the nineteenth century / Stefan H. Uhlig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Uhlig, Stefan H., 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric.

Genre:

Guides de l'etudiant.

Study guides.

Problems and exercises

examination study guides.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2024]

Summary:

"In this book, Stefan H. Uhlig offers a new account of the emergence of literary studies. Most histories of the early years of the field search for unifying origins of literature as a discipline and object of study. Turning to the decades around 1800, Uhlig reveals that the inception of the literary field was instead defined by intellectual diversity and contestation. He draws on an array of European writers to show how three schools of literary study-rhetoric teaching, theories of poetry, and literary history-emerged and clashed during this time, offering near-contemporaneous, yet divergent, visions of how to understand literature. Rhetoric and poetics thwarted criticism, to different ends, while literary historiography proved institutionally reassuring, yet less useful as a tool for textual understanding. This book traces current debates in literary studies back to this formative moment, serving as a guide to past and present controversies"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship-a relationship just as significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love. Renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson explores the political and personal resonances of friendship, and the tensions between them-in the thought of philosophers from Aristotle and Montaigne to Arendt, in the biography of the Indian historian Brijen Gupta, and in the oral narratives of a Kuranko storyteller, Keti Ferenke Koroma. He offers reflections on childhood friends and imaginary friends, lifelong friendships and friendships with animals; and ruminates on the complications of friendship between ethnographers and their interlocutors in the field. Blending memoir, theory, ethnography, and fiction, Jackson shows us how the elective affinities of friendship transcend culture, gender, and age, and offer us perennial means of taking stock of our lives and getting a measure of our own self-worth"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Smith Against Interpretation

Chapter 2. Blair's Indiscipline

Chapter 3. Anticriticism in Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Hazlitt

Chapter 4. Muted Poetics in Schlegel and Goethe

Chapter 5. The Rise of the Archive

Chapter 6. Thinking with Literature: Kant, Arnold, De Quincey, Goethe

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781512824162

151282416X

OCLC:

1391632779