The Epic Imaginary: Political Power and Its Legitimations in Eighteenth-Century German Literature
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Main Author: Payne, Charlton (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin De Gruyter 2012
Series:Studien zur deutschen Literatur
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record
This study traces how calls for poetic legitimations of community led particular eighteenth-century epics to explore an originary incompleteness of political power and its narrative legitimations. The analysis uncovers a new type of epic emerging in the second half of the eighteenth century in texts by Klopstock, Goethe, Wieland, and Brentano that enacts the disruptive potential of poetic language and narrative to question the legitimations of imaginary political origins and unities
Irregularity in Wieland's Humanism: Oberon Beyond ParodyEpilogue: Brentano's Romanzen vom Rosenkranz and the Romantic Epic; A. W. Schlegel's Anthropology of Poetry: Or, the Birth of Meter out of the Nature of Rhythm; Philological Legitimacy and the Invention of Romantic Epic; Romanzen vom Rosenkranz; Bibliography; Index of Subjects; Index of Names
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-208) and indexes
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (224 p.)
ISBN:9783110271997
3110271990
9781283628310
1283628317
9783110271942
311027194X

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