Beyond Theory : : Eighteenth-Century German Literature and the Poetics of Irony / / 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....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 6 line drawings |
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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