Studies in Weimar Classicism
Subtitle: writing as symbolic form
By: R. H. Stephenson
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9783039110858
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-461) 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.