The revivifying word: literature, philosophy, and the theory of life in Europe's romantic age
'What is not 'Life' that really is?' asked Coleridge, struggling, like many poets, philosophers, and scientists of Europe's Romantic age, to formulate a theory of life that explained the mysterious relation between dead material bodies and living, animate beings. Romantic in...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 'What is not 'Life' that really is?' asked Coleridge, struggling, like many poets, philosophers, and scientists of Europe's Romantic age, to formulate a theory of life that explained the mysterious relation between dead material bodies and living, animate beings. Romantic intellectuals found a key to this mystery surprisingly close at hand: the process by which dead matter could come to life must be something like the process of reading. 'The Revivifying Word' examines the reanimating acts of reading that became a central focus of attention for Romantic writers. German theorists, building on the Apostle Paul's assertion that the dead letter can be revivified by the living spirit, proposed a permeable, legible boundary between the living and the dead. This inaugurated a revolution in European aesthetics, implanting the germ of an extraordinarily productive narrative idea that enriched Romantic literature for decades. Poets and novelists created a large cast of characters who crossed the boundary between death and life with the help of some form of reading: figures like Keats's Glaucus, Kleist's Elizabeth Kohlhaas, Shelley's Frankenstein (and the monster he creates), Maturin's Melmoth, Poe's Madeline Usher, and Gautier's Spirite. Clayton Koelb demonstrates that such fictions offer a nuanced consideration of the most urgent question facing any theory of life: how do material bodies come to acquire, to lose, and then perhaps to regain the immaterial intellectual/spiritual quality that defines animate beings? Clayton Koelb is Guy B. Johnson Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
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| spelling | Koelb, Clayton 1942- Verfasser (DE-588)11328991X aut The revivifying word literature, philosophy, and the theory of life in Europe's romantic age Clayton Koelb Suffolk Boydell & Brewer 2008 1 online resource (xii, 205 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015) Introduction: "The dead man's life": romantic reading and revivification -- "The sound which echoes in our soul": the romantic aesthetics of matter and spirit -- "Spirit thanks only through the body": materialist spiritualism in romantic Europe -- "The heavenly revelation of her spirit": Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther -- "O read for pity's sake!": Keat's Endymion -- "Graecum est, non legitur": Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris -- "Spiritual communication": Gautier's Spirite -- "Eat this scroll": Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas" -- "I sickened as I read": Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- "Those who, being dead, are yet alive": Maturin's Melmoth the wanderer -- "This hideous drama of revivification": Poe and the rhetoric of terror 'What is not 'Life' that really is?' asked Coleridge, struggling, like many poets, philosophers, and scientists of Europe's Romantic age, to formulate a theory of life that explained the mysterious relation between dead material bodies and living, animate beings. Romantic intellectuals found a key to this mystery surprisingly close at hand: the process by which dead matter could come to life must be something like the process of reading. 'The Revivifying Word' examines the reanimating acts of reading that became a central focus of attention for Romantic writers. German theorists, building on the Apostle Paul's assertion that the dead letter can be revivified by the living spirit, proposed a permeable, legible boundary between the living and the dead. This inaugurated a revolution in European aesthetics, implanting the germ of an extraordinarily productive narrative idea that enriched Romantic literature for decades. Poets and novelists created a large cast of characters who crossed the boundary between death and life with the help of some form of reading: figures like Keats's Glaucus, Kleist's Elizabeth Kohlhaas, Shelley's Frankenstein (and the monster he creates), Maturin's Melmoth, Poe's Madeline Usher, and Gautier's Spirite. Clayton Koelb demonstrates that such fictions offer a nuanced consideration of the most urgent question facing any theory of life: how do material bodies come to acquire, to lose, and then perhaps to regain the immaterial intellectual/spiritual quality that defines animate beings? Clayton Koelb is Guy B. Johnson Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Geschichte 1793-1830 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1798-1832 gnd rswk-swf Literatur Literature / History and criticism / Theory, etc Romanticism Romantik (DE-588)4050491-8 gnd rswk-swf Lesen Motiv (DE-588)4167441-8 gnd rswk-swf Philosophie (DE-588)4045791-6 gnd rswk-swf Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd rswk-swf Leben Motiv (DE-588)4167004-8 gnd rswk-swf Tod Motiv (DE-588)4117229-2 gnd rswk-swf Romantik (DE-588)4050491-8 s Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 s Leben Motiv (DE-588)4167004-8 s Tod Motiv (DE-588)4117229-2 s 1\p DE-604 Philosophie (DE-588)4045791-6 s Lesen Motiv (DE-588)4167441-8 s Geschichte 1793-1830 z 2\p DE-604 Geschichte 1798-1832 z 3\p DE-604 4\p DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe 978-1-57113-388-5 http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781571138040/type/BOOK Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 3\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 4\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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