Beyond Theory : Eighteenth-Century German Literature and the Poetics of Irony / Benjamin Bennett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bennett, Benjamin, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German Studies.

Local Subjects:

German Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.) : 6 line drawings

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1995 In a book of rare breadth of vision, Benjamin Bennett offers a new interpretation of the eighteenth century. He provides nuanced re-evaluations of Goethe, Herder, Holderlin, Kleist, Lessing, Schiller, and Kant, as well as many other poets and philosophers. He seeks to trace the process by which modernity emerged in eighteenth-century German thought.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: The New and the Original Eighteenth Century

CHAPTER ONE. The New Holy Scripture of Humanity: The Reader of the Novel and the Mission of the Genre in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre

CHAPTER TWO. Holderlin’s “An die Parzen”: Poetry as a Game in Society

CHAPTER THREE. Lessing’s Laokoon: The Poetics of Experience

CHAPTER FOUR. Ironic Conversation and the Communal Soul: Goethe on and in Language

CHAPTER FIVE. Instability and Irony: The Real Eighteenth Century

CHAPTER SIX. The Genres of Mind and Contract: The Theater, the Novel, and the Jews

Conclusion: The Use and Abuse of the Eighteenth Century

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-5017-3338-9

OCLC:

1178770170