The Literature Of Weimar Classicism

Author : Simon Richter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 157113249X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Literature of Weimar Classicism written by Simon Richter and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays providing an account of the shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values of Weimar Classicism.

Author : David Gallagher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780773420571
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weimar Classicism written by David Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WEIMAR CLASSICISM: This descriptive term, designating a unique and verybrief epoch of literary and cultural achievement in Germany, is familiar to everystudent of German literature and culture. It was not always so. Only toward theend of the nineteenth century was the term introduced retrospectively in referenceto the few years at the end of the preceding century, which marked the high pointof the career of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who resided in the otherwise smalland provincial Duchy of Weimar and whose achievement as man of lettersestablished what ultimately came to be called OCyClassicism.OCO These were also theyears of the close friendship of Goethe with the dramatist and Kantian theoristFriedrich Schiller, documented by the nearly daily exchange of letters between thetwo OCo Schiller lived at the time in nearby Jena OCo which Goethe edited andpublished more than twenty years after SchillerOCOs death. The essays assembled inthe present volume would all acknowledge the legitimacy of this designation, even though they are addressed to various peripheral aspects of WeimarClassicism, related to but distinct from the work of its two central authors (theessay by T. J. Reed is the exception)."

Author : Gerhart Hoffmeister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Reassessment of Weimar Classicism written by Gerhart Hoffmeister and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays offer a wide range of topics treated from literary, interdisciplinary, and comparative points of view. The book falls into three sections: Weimar and Goethe; Weimar and German Literary Culture; Weimar Abroad; with a closure on Weimar and the Political Aftermath.

Author : Paul Bishop
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571132802
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Friedrich Nietzsche and Weimar Classicism (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) written by Paul Bishop and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book provides an overview of related scholarly literature; discusses Nietzsche's aesthetic theory in The Birth of Tragedy; recounts the composition of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and offers an interpretation of the "aesthetic gospel" in this centeal work. A concluding chapter explores the continuities in aesthetic theory from Leucippus to Ernst Cassirer. By demonstrating the constitutive function of the aesthetics of Weimar classicism in his philosophy, this book opens up a fresh and original perspective on reading Nietzsche."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Roger H. Stephenson
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039110858
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Weimar Classicism written by Roger H. Stephenson and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of central aspects of Weimar Classicism, written in the light of Ernst Cassirer's cultural theory. It provides a close reading of key texts, ranging across Goethe and Schiller's oeuvre as a whole, from their (philosophical) poems through their drama, prose-writing, and theoretical reflections on cultural and scientific topics. The work seeks to demonstrate the attested (but hitherto largely unanalysed) aesthetic power at the very heart of their writings, which in turn underpins their epistemological and ethical significance. The main theme of Weimar Classicism is the role of symbolism in Classicism, as distinct from the centrality of semiosis in competing cultural norms. The overall aim of the book is thus to see Weimar Classicism anew, both historically and analytically, as an enlightening context in which to reconsider many of the central tenets of contemporary (often called 'postmodern') cultural theory.

Author : T. J. Reed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000768376
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Classical Centre written by T. J. Reed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1980, this book examines the nature and significance of Classicism as a literary phenomenon and relates the beginnings of the German variety to the search for a national identity in the circumstances of a politically fragmented eighteenth century Germany. It surveys the pre-classical scene, traces the intellectual currents and the literary forms and material which Classicism was to synthesise, and presents its theoretical basis. The major works of Goethe and Schiller in the decade of their partnership are analysed. Their response to political events is placed in the contemporary context and the divergences which challenge Classicism are discussed.

Author : Nicholas Saul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521848911
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism written by Nicholas Saul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the development of Romantic arts and culture in Germany, with both individual artists and key themes covered in detail.

Author : Richard Hibbitt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351196294
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dilettantism and Its Values written by Richard Hibbitt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The concept of dilettantism has not always been associated with amateurism or superficiality. It played a significant role in French and German critical writing from the late eighteenth century until the fin de siecle, embracing notions such as apprenticeship, fruitful error, parody, aestheticism and scepticism. Attempts to define dilettantism in a binary relationship with art have often been defeated by a fundamental ambivalence towards its values. The major texts on the subject are Goethe and Schiller's unfinished 'dilettantism project' (1799) and Paul Bourget's essay on Ernest Renan (1882), although the term was also used by writers including Wieland, Baudelaire, Laforgue, Nietzsche, Hofmannsthal and Thomas Mann. In this wide-ranging study Richard Hibbitt provides the first book-length comparative analysis of the concept of dilettantism, tracing its chronological development and proposing a synthesis of its diverse aspects and values."

Author : W. H. Bruford
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521099103
Total Pages : 508 pages
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Download or read book Culture and Society in Classical Weimar 1775-1806 written by W. H. Bruford and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1962 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paperback of the hardcover edition, first published in 1962. The book describes Goethe's Weimar from documents and research and interprets the connections between German culture and German society both in the age of Goethe and later. To this book Professor Bruford has written a sequel, The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation, and the two books together offer an introduction to the whole evolution of the German intellectual tradition.

Author : Makayla Bates
Publisher : NY Research Press
ISBN 13 : 9781647254001
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book German Classical Era: A Literary Approach written by Makayla Bates and published by NY Research Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German classicism, also known as Weimar classicism, was a literary and cultural movement in Germany. This movement spanned over thirty-three years from 1772 until 1805. This era involved great intellectuals such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Schiller, and Christoph Martin Wieland. The practitioners of the German classical era established new humanism from the synthesis of ideas from Romanticism, Classicism, and the Age of Enlightenment. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is considered as one of the greatest German literary figures of the modern era. He was a poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist. This book is a collection of essays and works that focuses predominantly on eighteenth-century thought, featuring thinkers such as Lessing, Goethe and Herder, Locke and Voltaire. It will be of interest to scholars and students of literature.