Beyond Theory : : Eighteenth-Century German Literature and the Poetics of Irony / / Benjamin Bennett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Bennett, Benjamin,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 6 line drawings
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: The New and the Original Eighteenth Century --; CHAPTER ONE. The New Holy Scripture of Humanity: The Reader of the Novel and the Mission of the Genre in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre --; CHAPTER TWO. Holderlin’s “An die Parzen”: Poetry as a Game in Society --; CHAPTER THREE. Lessing’s Laokoon: The Poetics of Experience --; CHAPTER FOUR. Ironic Conversation and the Communal Soul: Goethe on and in Language --; CHAPTER FIVE. Instability and Irony: The Real Eighteenth Century --; CHAPTER SIX. The Genres of Mind and Contract: The Theater, the Novel, and the Jews --; Conclusion: The Use and Abuse of the Eighteenth Century --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501733383; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501733383
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Benjamin Bennett.

A Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1995 In a book of rare breadth of vision, Benjamin Bennett offers a new interpretation of the eighteenth century. He provides nuanced re-evaluations of Goethe, Herder, Holderlin, Kleist, Lessing, Schiller, and Kant, as well as many other poets and philosophers. He seeks to trace the process by which modernity emerged in eighteenth-century German thought.