David E Wellbery

(Author)

The Specular Moment: Goethe's Early Lyric and the Beginnings of RomanticismPaperback, 1 October 1996

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Part of Series
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Part of Series
Meridian
Print Length
484 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Date Published
1 Oct 1996
ISBN-10
0804726949
ISBN-13
9780804726948

Description

In this book, the author has three aims: (1) to elaborate an interpretation of Goethe's lyric poetry adequate to the intricacies of its subject matter; (2) to demonstrate the significance of that poetry to the development of European Romanticism; (3) to establish a method of inquiry that weaves together the major strands of theoretical reflection in modern literary studies. No study of Goethe's early lyric poetry has been published in English in the last fifty years. But the reading of this poetry the author presents is not intended merely to introduce an English readership to a major body of work; rather, the book delineates for the first time in any language an account of the symbolic network or organizing myth that underlies Goethe's individual poems. This marks a decisive break with the previous research on Goethe, which has tended to view his poetry as the expression of occasional experiences. The author shows, on the contrary, that Goethe's lyric work circles around a core set of problems and figures, that it evinces a systematic coherence unperceived until now. In the literature on European Romanticism, consideration of the German contribution has typically been restricted to the theoretical work of the Schlegel brothers and Novalis, and philosophers such as Schelling and Hegel. The author contends that the ideas they articulated were first worked through in Goethe's bold poetic experimentation.

Product Details

Author:
David E Wellbery
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 October 1996
Dimensions:
22.96 x 15.39 x 2.92 cm
ISBN-10:
0804726949
ISBN-13:
9780804726948
Language:
English
Location:
Stanford, CA
Pages:
484
Weight:
707.6 gm

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