Pretexts for writing German Romantic prefaces, literature, and philosophy
"Around 1800, print culture became a particularly rich source for metaphors about thinking as well as writing, nowhere more so than in the German tradition of Dichter und Denker. Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel (among many others) used the preface in order to reflect on the problems of writing its...
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Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Bucknell University Press
2019
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| Schriftenreihe: | New studies in the age of Goethe
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832
> Criticism and interpretation
> Jean Paul 1763-1825
> Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770-1831
> Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
> Jean Paul
> Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
> German literature
> History and criticism
> Prefaces
> LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
> LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance
> PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics
> Vorwort
> Deutsch
> Literatur
> Geschichte 1790-1830
> Romantik
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Around 1800, print culture became a particularly rich source for metaphors about thinking as well as writing, nowhere more so than in the German tradition of Dichter und Denker. Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel (among many others) used the preface in order to reflect on the problems of writing itself, and its interpretation. If Sterne teaches us that a material book enables mind games as much as it gives expression to them, the Germans made these games more theoretical still. Weaving in authors from Antiquity to Agamben, Williams shows how European-and, above all, German-Romanticism was a watershed in the history of the preface. The playful, paradoxical strategies that Romantic writers invented are later played out in continental philosophy, and in post-Structuralist literature. The preface is a prompt for playful thinking with texts, as much as it is conventionally the prosaic product of such an exercise"-- "In this incisive, original book, S. Williams reads prefaces to German literature and philosophy around 1800 as pretexts for writing, examining three of the most remarkable preface-writers of that era--Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel--in the contexts not only of German, but also European print culture, thought, and literature"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 233-253 |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 261 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 1684480523 1-68448-052-3 1684480531 1-68448-053-1 9781684480524 978-1-68448-052-4 9781684480531 978-1-68448-053-1 |