The Pleasures of Abandonment
Author: Paul Fleming
Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9783826032479
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Selected Writings
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780674017467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.
A New History of German Literature
Author: David E. Wellbery
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 1038
ISBN-13: 9780674015036
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.
The Shepherd, the Volk, and the Middle Class
Author: Elystan Griffiths
Publisher: Studies in German Literature L
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1640140646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzes the transformation of German-language pastoral from a portrayal of the idyllic lives of herdsmen into a vehicle for the concerns and aspirations of the middle class.
The Doppelgänger
Author: Andrew J. Webber
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1996-06-27
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0191583936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEver since its literary coinage in Jean Paul's novel, Siebenkäs (1796), the concept of Doppelgänger has had significant influence upon representations of the self in German literature. This study charts the development of the double from its origins in the Romantic period, through its more marginal - but nonetheless significant - manifestations in the post-Romantic culture, to its revival at the fin-de-siècle and transfer to the silent screen. The book features an introduction to the practice and theory underlying the use of the Doppelgänger, with particular reference to psychoanalysis, followed by chapters on Jean Paul, Hoffmann, Kleist, poetic realism (Droste-Hülshoff, Keller, Storm) and modernism (Kafka, Rilke, Hoffmannsthal, Schnitzler, Meyrink, Werfal). This study shows that the often underestimated figure of the double may provide a key to the epistomological, aesthetic and psychosexual structures of the texts it visits and revisits, with a particular focus on its effects in the fields of vision and language.
Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
Author: Andrew McInnes
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-09-02
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 104009886X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous. Building on recent work that decentres the myth of the solitary genius, this duograph theorises the ridiculous as an alternative affect to the sublime, privileging collective laughter above solitude and selfishness and reflecting on these ideals through the practice of joint authorship. Tracing the history of the ridiculous through Romantic and post-Romantic debates about sublimity, from the rediscovery of Longinus and the aesthetic theories of Burke and Kant to contemporary queer and postcolonial theory interested in silliness, lowness, and vulnerability, Reading the Romantic Ridiculous explores Romanticism's surprising commitments to ridiculousness in canonical material by writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, and Charles Lamb as well as lesser-known material from joke books to children's literature. In theory and practice, this duograph also considers the legacies of Romanticism – and ridiculousness – today, analysing their influence on independent film, sitcoms, and young adult fiction, as well as their place in higher education now.
Hegel and the Representative Constitution, Part 1
Author: Elias Buchetmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-03-31
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1009305972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHegel and the Representative Constitution provides the first comprehensive historical discussion of the institutional dimension of G. W. F. Hegel's political thought. Elias Buchetmann traces this much-neglected aspect in unprecedented contextual detail and makes the case for reading the Philosophy of Right from 1820 as a contribution to the lively and widespread public debate on the constitutional question in contemporary Central Europe. Drawing on a broad range of primary source material, this volume illuminates the wider political discourse in post-Napoleonic Germany, carefully locates Hegel's institutional commitments within their immediate cultural and political context, and reveals him as something closer to a public intellectual. By exploring this indispensable thinker's demand for the constitutional protection of popular participation in government, it contributes beyond Hegel scholarship to shed new light on the history of democratic theory in early nineteenth-century Europe and encourages critical reflection on questions of representation today.
Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination
Author: Francesco Orlando
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 0300138210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranslated here into English for the first time is a monumental work of literary history and criticism comparable in scope and achievement to Eric Auerbach’s Mimesis. Italian critic Francesco Orlando explores Western literature’s obsession with outmoded and nonfunctional objects (ruins, obsolete machinery, broken things, trash, etc.). Combining the insights of psychoanalysis and literary-political history, Orlando traces this obsession to a turning point in history, at the end of eighteenth-century industrialization, when the functional becomes the dominant value of Western culture. Roaming through every genre and much of the history of Western literature, the author identifies distinct categories into which obsolete images can be classified and provides myriad examples. The function of literature, he concludes, is to remind us of what we have lost and what we are losing as we rush toward the future.
THE FORGOTTEN ROMANTIC. JEAN PAUL RICHTER (1770-1830)
Author: MAGGIE ALLEN
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2019-01-09
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 0244448892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNineteenth century Romanticism. In-depth study of Jean Paul Richter.
Metaphor II
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Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9027278202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMetaphor, though not now the scholarly “mania” it once was, remains a topic of great interest in many disciplines albeit with interesting shifts in emphasis. Warren Shibles' Metaphor: An Annotated Bibliography and History (Bloomington, Ind. 1971) recorded the initial interest. Then Metaphor: A Bibliography of Post-1970 Publications, published by John Benjamins, continued the record through the mania years up to 1985 when writings proliferated as metaphor was seen to be a fundamental category in human thought and language. Five years later, there is a need for a report on the newest thinking and tendencies in the field. This need is fulfilled by Metaphor II which offers a comprehensive view of information which would otherwise remain scattered throughout a numbing plethora of resources, including many sometimes-hard-to-find publications from Eastern Europe. Metaphor II systematically collects references of books, articles and papers published between 1985 and May 1990, and includes for completeness corrections and additions to the earlier bibliographies. Abstracts are given for many of the titles, while four indices (disciplines, semantic fields, metaphor theory and names) multiply the number of access points to the information.
