Heine und Byron
Subtitle: Poetik eingreifender Kunst am Beginn der Moderne
By: by Alexandra Böhm
Series: Hermaea, germanistische Forschungen -- Neue Folge, Band 126
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: ger
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9783110278750; 9783110283822
Subjects: Textual Criticism; Poetics; History; Romanticism
Description: This study explores Heine's complex reading of Byron and demonstrates the inadequacy of the notion of world-weariness (Weltschmerz) as a dominant paradigm for comparing these two writers. On the basis of comprehensive textual analysis, Alexandra Böhm suggests that between 1815 and 1930, during the threshold period between Romanticism and Realism, both Byron and Heine developed a "poetics of intervening art" (Poetik eingreifender Kunst). This performative poetics not only casts Heine's reading of Byron in a new light but also serves to more precisely situate the relationship of both of these writers to Romantic positions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-461) and index.