Dante in Deutschland : : An Itinerary of Romantic Myth / / Daniel DiMassa.

Around the turn of the nineteenth century, no task seemed more urgent to German Romantics than the creation of a new mythology. It would unite modern poets and grant them common ground, and bring philosophers and the Volk closer together. But what would a new mythology look like? Only one model suff...

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Place / Publishing House:Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:New Studies in the Age of Goethe
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • A NOTE ON TRANSLATION
  • Introduction: Orienting Romanticism
  • Part I Romanticism
  • CHAPTER ONE Discovering Dante and Theorizing Myth: The Schlegel Brothers and the Origins of the Romantic Project
  • CHAPTER TWO Schelling, Novalis, and the Legitimation of a Dantean Mythology
  • CHAPTER THREE Goethe’s Dantean Mythologies of the Self and of the World
  • Part II Neo-Romanticism
  • CHAPTER FOUR Trespassing the Sign: The Mad Flight of Gerhart Hauptmann
  • CHAPTER FIVE Abolishing History: New Dantean Germanies in Rudolf Borchardt and Stefan George
  • CHAPTER SIX Thomas Mann and the Demythologization of Dante
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR