UID:
almafu_9960119823002883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 230 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-283-66588-3
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1-57113-833-1
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
Mimesis, or the imitation of nature, is one of the most important concepts in eighteenth-century German literary aesthetics. As the century progressed, classical mimeticism came increasingly under attack, though it also held its position in the works of Goethe, Schiller, and Moritz. Much recent scholarship construes Early German Romanticism's refutation of mimeticism as its single distinguishing trait: the Romantics' conception of art as the very negation of the ideal of imitation. In this view, the Romantics saw art as production ('poiesis'): imaginative, musical, transcendent. Mattias Pirholt's book not only problematizes this view of Romanticism, but also shows that reflections on mimesis are foundational for the German Romantic novel, as is Goethe's great pre-Romantic novel 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship'. Among the novels examined are Friedrich Schlegel's 'Lucinde', shown to be transgressive in its use of the aesthetics of imitation; Novalis's 'Heinrich von Ofterdingen', interpreted as an attempt to construct the novel as a self-imitating world; and Clemens Brentano's 'Godwi', seen to signal the end of Early Romanticism, both fulfilling and ironically deconstructing the self-reflective mimeticism of the novels that came before it. Mattias Pirholt is a Research Fellow in the Department of Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Romanticism, mimesis, and the novel -- Double-entry imagery: Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre -- Imitation and indolence: Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde -- Imitation and simulation: Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen -- Beyond romantic representation: Clemens Brentano's Godwi -- Conclusions: mimesis and the critical politics of Romanticism.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-57113-534-0
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
DOI:
10.1515/9781571138330
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