Studies in Weimar Classicism : writing as symbolic form /
Stephenson, R. H.(Roger H.)
Oxford : Peter Lang,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-461) and index.
Ernst Cassirer's conception of culture-as-comedy -- The aesthetic theory of Weimar Classicism -- The diachronic Classicism of Goethe's Faust -- Poetry as symbolic form -- Goethe's rhyming maxims -- The cultural import of Reineke Fuchs -- 'An artificial mode of discourse': the symbolic form of Goethe's prose -- The novel in Weimar Classicism: symbolic form and symbolic pregnance -- Appendix 1: what is a symbol? -- Appendix 2: memory as an aesthetic phenomenon -- Appendix 3: the scholarly debate on the problematic status of the literary aphorism -- Appendix 4: Goethe and Schiller's conception of the aesthetic as feminine -- Appendix 5: Schiller the philosopher.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805
Classicism
German literature
Aesthetics, Modern
Symbolism in literature.