The Critical Idyll
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The Critical Idyll
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Author : Peter Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Peter Morgan
Release Date : 1990-01-01
The Critical Idyll written by Peter Morgan and has been published by Peter Morgan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Critical Idyll is a socio-literary re-evaluation of Goethe’s idyllic verse epic, Hermann und Dorothea. The revival of traditional German values as markers of national identity against the approaching revolutionary armies of the French in the early 1790s is analysed in the main figure, the archetypal German youth, Hermann. Confronted by the misery of German refugees from the left-bank territories in 1796, Hermann becomes the spokesman for a new sense of German identity. The refugee Dorothea, and her first finance, the German Jacobin who died in Paris, provide a perspective on the themes of German identity and individual freedom at this time. The national feelings Hermann expresses are based on a language and community in the German small town, rather than on earlier territorial or dynastic concepts of the German nation. The traditional literary form of the idyll is reformed through irony and parody into a modern, critical and self-reflexive work in which central themes of post-revolutionary society are foregrounded.
Blanchot Romantique
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Author : Hannes Opelz
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2011
Blanchot Romantique written by Hannes Opelz and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with French literature categories.
The work of French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) is without doubt among the most challenging the twentieth century has to offer. Contemporary debate in literature, philosophy, and politics has yet to fully acknowledge its discreet but enduring impact. Arising from a conference that took place in Oxford in 2009, this book sets itself a simple, if daunting, task: that of measuring the impact and responding to the challenge of Blanchot's work by addressing its engagement with the Romantic legacy, in particular (but not only) that of the Jena Romantics. Drawing upon a wide range of philosophers and poets associated directly or indirectly with German Romanticism (Kant, Fichte, Goethe, Jean Paul, Novalis, the Schlegels, Hölderlin), the authors of this volume explore how Blanchot's fictional, critical, and fragmentary texts rewrite and rethink the Romantic demand in relation to questions of criticism and reflexivity, irony and subjectivity, narrative and genre, the sublime and the neutre, the Work and the fragment, quotation and translation. Reading Blanchot with or against key twentieth-century thinkers (Benjamin, Foucault, de Man), they also examine Romantic and post-Romantic notions of history, imagination, literary theory, melancholy, affect, love, revolution, community, and other central themes that Blanchot's writings deploy across the century from Jean-Paul Sartre to Jean-Luc Nancy. This book contains contributions in both English and French.
Adalbert Stifter A Critical Study
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Author : Martin Swales
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1984-04-19
Adalbert Stifter A Critical Study written by Martin Swales and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-04-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
This major study reassesses Adalbert Stifter's work within the context of the tradition of nineteenth-century European fictional prose.
American Idyll
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Author : Catherine Liu
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2011-09-21
American Idyll written by Catherine Liu and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-21 with Education categories.
A trenchant critique of failure and opportunism across the political spectrum, American Idyll argues that social mobility, once a revered hallmark of American society, has ebbed, as higher education has become a mechanistic process for efficient sorting that has more to do with class formation than anything else. Academic freedom and aesthetic education are reserved for high-scoring, privileged students and vocational education is the only option for economically marginal ones. Throughout most of American history, antielitist sentiment was reserved for attacks against an entrenched aristocracy or rapacious plutocracy, but it has now become a revolt against meritocracy itself, directed against what insurgents see as a ruling class of credentialed elites with degrees from exclusive academic institutions. Catherine Liu reveals that, within the academy and stemming from the relatively new discipline of cultural studies, animosity against expertise has animated much of the Left’s cultural criticism. By unpacking the disciplinary formation and academic ambitions of American cultural studies, Liu uncovers the genealogy of the current antielitism, placing the populism that dominates headlines within a broad historical context. In the process, she emphasizes the relevance of the historical origins of populist revolt against finance capital and its political influence. American Idyll reveals the unlikely alliance between American pragmatism and proponents of the Frankfurt School and argues for the importance of broad frames of historical thinking in encouraging robust academic debate within democratic institutions. In a bold thought experiment that revives and defends Richard Hofstadter’s theories of anti-intellectualism in American life, Liu asks, What if cultural populism had been the consensus politics of the past three decades? American Idyll shows that recent antielitism does nothing to redress the source of its discontent—namely, growing economic inequality and diminishing social mobility. Instead, pseudopopulist rage, in conservative and countercultural forms alike, has been transformed into resentment, content merely to take down allegedly elitist cultural forms without questioning the real political and economic consolidation of powers that has taken place in America during the past thirty years.
The Critical Spirit And The Will To Believe
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Author : D. Jasper
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1989-08-10
The Critical Spirit And The Will To Believe written by D. Jasper and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-08-10 with Science categories.
Byzantine Commentaries On Ancient Greek Texts 12th 15th Centuries
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Author : Baukje van den Berg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-09-08
Byzantine Commentaries On Ancient Greek Texts 12th 15th Centuries written by Baukje van den Berg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-08 with History categories.
Addresses the importance of ancient literature for Byzantine society and explores various ways of recycling and understanding ancient works.
Goethe Yearbook 27
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Author : Patricia Anne Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2020-06-15
Goethe Yearbook 27 written by Patricia Anne Simpson and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-15 with Art categories.
A new Forum section focuses on the impact of Digital Humanities on Goethe scholarship and on eighteenth-century German Studies, alongside articles on a diverse range of authors and topics.
The Joy Of Life
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Author : Margaret Werth
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2002-11-05
The Joy Of Life written by Margaret Werth and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-05 with Art categories.
"Werth weaves together complex analyses of these paintings and others by Manet, Gauguin, Seurat, Cezanne, and less well known artists with a consideration of their critical reception, literary parallels, and the social and cultural milieu. She moves from artistic concerns with tradition and avant-gardism, decoration and social art, composition and figuration to contemporary debates over human origins and social organization."--BOOK JACKET.
Alfred Tennyson
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Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2004
Alfred Tennyson written by Laurence W. Mazzeno and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Collections categories.
The poet's reputation has weathered even the most vitriolic attempts to discredit both the man and his writings; and as criticism of the late twentieth century demonstrates, Tennyson's claim to pre-eminence among the Victorians is now unchallenged."
Goethe Yearbook 15
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Author : Simon Richter
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2008
Goethe Yearbook 15 written by Simon Richter and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.
New, interdisciplinary essays on an array of topics ranging from Goethe and mineralogy to theories of masculinity around 1800.