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

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.

Table of Contents

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