Wissen, Erzählen, Tradition
Subtitle: Wielands Spätwerk
By: edited by Walter Erhart, Lothar van Laak
Series: Quellen und Forschungen zur Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte
Publisher: De Gruyter; Walter de Gruyter Inc.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: ger
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9783110240368
Description: "This book shows Christoph Martin Wieland's independent position in the literature and culture of around 1800 in a new way: Wieland's work describes a significant knowledge transfer between the Early Modern Age and the Modern Age. This is achieved by a double reference to the knowledge base of the Enlightenment on the one hand and to the philosophical and aesthetic tradition of antiquity on the other hand. The humanist-educated academic world, religion and the narrative and rhetorical situation of the collected knowledge develop - especially in the late works - into a productive tension with the processes of handing down the knowledge, the conveyance, reworking and translation of this knowledge as well as the dynamics of preservation and "modernization"."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.