Studies in Weimar Classicism
Subtitle: writing as symbolic form
By: Roger Stephenson.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9783039110858
Subjects: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, -- 1749-1832 -- Criticism and interpretation; Schiller, Friedrich, -- 1759-1805 -- Criticism and interpretation; Classicism -- Germany -- Weimar (Thuringia) -- History -- 18th century; German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Aesthetics, Modern -- 18th century; Symbolism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ernst Cassirer's conception of culture as comedy; title: The aesthetic theory of Weimar Classicism; title: The diachronic Classicism of Goethe's Faust; title: Poetry as symbolic form; title: Goethe's rhyming maxims; title: The cultural import of Reineke Fuchs; title: An artificial mode of discourse: the symbolic form of Goethe's prose; title: The novel in Weimar Classicism: symbolic form and symbolic pregnance; title: Appendix 1: what is a symbol?; title: Appendix 2: memory as an aesthetic phenomenon; title: Appendix 3: the scholarly debate on the problematic status of the literary aphorism; title: Appendix 4: Goethe and Schiller's conception of the aesthetic as feminine; title: Appendix 5: Schiller the philosopher.