Play in the Age of Goethe : : Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800 /

Play in the Age of Goethe : : Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800 / / ed. by Elliott Schreiber, Edgar Landgraf.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
MitwirkendeR:
Frey, Christiane,
Heidepriem, Samuel,
Landgraf, Edgar,
Martyn, David,
McNeely, Ian F.,
Powers, Michael,
Rennie, Nicholas,
Schreiber, Elliott,
Simpson, Patricia Anne,
Tucker, Brian,
Weber, Christian P.,
TeilnehmendeR:
Frey, Christiane.
Heidepriem, Samuel.
Martyn, David.
McNeely, Ian F.
Powers, Michael.
Rennie, Nicholas.
Simpson, Patricia Anne.
Tucker, Brian.
Weber, Christian P.
HerausgeberIn:
Landgraf, Edgar,
Schreiber, Elliott,
Place / Publishing House:Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:New Studies in the Age of Goethe
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Physical Description:1 online resource (340 p.) :; 5 b&w images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction: Play in the Age of Goethe and Today
  • Part I. Free Play
  • CHAPTER ONE. Beauty and Erotic Play: Anacreontic Poetry's Transformation of Aesthetic Philosophy
  • CHAPTER TWO. Free Play in German Idealism and Poststructuralism
  • Part II. Games of Chance
  • CHAPTER THREE. "Mit dem Spiele spielen": Lessing's Play for Tolerance
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Play with Memory and Its Topoi
  • Part III. Children's Play
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Narcissus at Play: Goethe, Piaget, and the Passage from Egocentric to Social Play
  • CHAPTER SIX. Playthings: Goethe's Favorite Toys
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Kindergarten and the Pedagogy of Play in the German Educational Revolution
  • Interlude
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Invective, Eulogy, Play: Jacobi's Sock 1799
  • Part IV. The Play of Language
  • CHAPTER NINE. Between Speaking and Listening: Jean Paul's Wordplay
  • CHAPTER TEN. Authorship, Translation, Play: Schleiermacher's Metalangual Poetics
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. Playing with Words in Early German Romanticism
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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