Title: The epic imaginary : political power and its legitimations in eighteenth-century German literature /
Authors: Payne, Charlton
Publisher: De Gruyter,
Year: 2012
Subjects: German literature History and criticism; Politics and literature Germany History; Epic literature, German History and criticism.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: The Imaginary -- The Epic Imaginary and Literary History -- Epic and Political Poetics -- 1.The Epic Genre and the Question of Legitimacy in Eighteenth-Century Poetics -- Legitimations I Gottsched -- Legitimations II Bodmer and Breitinger -- Blankenburg 1774: The Theory of the Novel -- Blankenburg's Literarische Zusatze zu Johann Georg Sulzers Allgemeiner Theorie der Schonen Kunste (1796-1798): "Der neuere Held" -- Merck: Epic Naivete -- Herder: "Genealogie alterer Meister" -- 2.The Epic Prosody of the Sublime Nation: Klopstock's Messias -- The Mimesis of the Epic and Epic Mimesis: Klopstock's Theory of Hexameter as "Darstellung" -- The High Priests of the Nation: Klopstock's Supplementary Epic Community -- Excursus: The Passions of Klopstock and Badiou -- 3.The Politics and Poetics of Epic World Citizenship in Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea -- Figures of Character -- The Laws of Epic Poetry -- 4.Wieland's Parodic Humanism -- Wieland's Parodic Humanism: Oberon in Context (Part I) -- "Das Volk," Cosmopolitanism, and Sovereignty in Wieland's Political Essays -- Irregularity in Wieland's Humanism: Oberon Beyond Parody -- Epilogue: 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.