The Epic Imaginary : : Political Power and its Legitimations in Eighteenth-Century German Literature /

The Epic Imaginary : : Political Power and its Legitimations in Eighteenth-Century German Literature / / Charlton Payne.

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This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent - and hence legitimating - stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power....

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Payne, Charlton,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Studien zur deutschen Literatur , 197
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction: The Epic Imaginary in Eighteenth-Century German Literature
  • 1. The Epic Genre and the Question of Legitimacy in Eighteenth-Century Poetics
  • 2. The Epic Prosody of the Sublime Nation: Klopstock’s Messias
  • Excursus: The Passions of Klopstock and Badiou
  • 3. The Politics and Poetics of Epic World Citizenship in Goethe’s Hermann und Dorothea.
  • 4. Wieland’s Parodic Humanism
  • Epilogue: Brentano’s Romanzen vom Rosenkranz and the Romantic Epic
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Names

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