The Art of Recollection in Jena Romanticism : Memory, History, Fiction, and Fragmentation in Texts by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis / Laurie Ruth Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Laurie Ruth, author.

Series:

Studien zur deutschen Literatur ; Band 164.

Studien zur deutschen Literatur ; 164

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanticism--Germany--Jena.

Romanticism.

German literature--18th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

Aesthetics, German--18th century.

Aesthetics, German.

Memory in literature.

Novalis, 1772-1801--Aesthetics.

Novalis.

Schlegel, Friedrich von, 1772-1829--Aesthetics.

Schlegel, Friedrich von.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study examines the ways in which memory is understood and aestheticized in Romantic texts, and argues that these works reveal serious doubt about the explanatory ability of the philosophical, psychological and aesthetic discourses against which modern thought is constructed. The Jena Romantics represent the experience and presentation of memory as privileged and creative, but also as not always capable of giving reliable information about the actual past. But rather than depicting signifiers with no stable referents, their portrayal of memory and remembering as creative displays a belief that meaning is accessible through its representations. This belief results in an emphasis on originality over imitation, but also blurs distinctions between memory and historiography. The form of the fragment embodies the dilemmas and possibilities that the Romantics associate with memory. The book includes a survey of theories of memory and how they contribute to a specifically Romantic model for memory that can lead to new interpretations of Romantic fragments; chapters on eighteenth-century aesthetic and psychological theories of memory that precede and influence Romantic texts, and on understandings of memory in critical and idealist philosophy; interpretations of the poetic and philosophical production of Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel; and a conclusion that demonstrates the persistence of the Romantic model for memory in contemporary memory theory and cultural production.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

I. Introduction: Memory and its Objects in Early Romanticism

II. Reconciliation and Fragmentation: The Early Romantic Memory Model

III. From Recollection to Depiction: An Incipient Crisis of Memory and Representation in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory

IV. Reconstructing Origins: Remembrance in German Idealism

V. Novalis's Conceptualizations of Memory and Its Role in Literary and Philosophical Production

VI. Memory and History in the Fragments of Friedrich Schlegel

VII. Conclusion: Early Romanticism and Later Theories of Memory and Representation

Bibliography

Index of Names

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9783110910544

3110910543

OCLC:

979749271