The Art of Recollection in Jena Romanticism

Release on 20022002 by Laurie Ruth Johnson

Author: Laurie Ruth Johnson

Publisher: ISSN

ISBN: UOM:39015056254892

Category: Aesthetics, German

Page: 196

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This study examines the ways in which memory is understood and aestheticized in Romantic texts, and argues that these works reveal serious doubt about the explanatory ability of the philosophical, psychological and aesthetic discourses against which modern thought is constructed. The Jena Romantics represent the experience and presentation of memory as privileged and creative, but also as not always capable of giving reliable information about the actual past. But rather than depicting signifiers with no stable referents, their portrayal of memory and remembering as creative displays a belief that meaning is accessible through its representations. This belief results in an emphasis on originality over imitation, but also blurs distinctions between memory and historiography. The form of the fragment embodies the dilemmas and possibilities that the Romantics associate with memory. The book includes a survey of theories of memory and how they contribute to a specifically Romantic model for memory that can lead to new interpretations of Romantic fragments; chapters on eighteenth-century aesthetic and psychological theories of memory that precede and influence Romantic texts, and on understandings of memory in critical and idealist philosophy; interpretations of the poetic and philosophical production of Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel; and a conclusion that demonstrates the persistence of the Romantic model for memory in contemporary memory theory and cultural production.

Aesthetics, German

Language: en
Pages: 204

The Art of Recollection in Jena Romanticism

Authors: Laurie Ruth Johnson

Categories: Literary Criticism

Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-06 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

This exploration of Romantic depictions of memory as a faculty of body as well as of mind analyzes representations of remembrance in Jena Romantic texts. When these texts pose questions about memory's employment and depiction in art - about the aestheticization of recollection - they reveal serious doubt about the

Language: en
Pages: 232

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Authors: Quazi Mahtab Zaman, Igea Troiani

Categories: Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-07 - Publisher: Springer

This book presents a collection of critical, multi-disciplinary essays on urban research by established and early career researchers who participated in the 9th Annual AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association) Research Student Symposium. The symposium was held at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment, Robert Gordon University in

Language: en
Pages: 231

Shakespeare's Memory Theatre

Authors: Lina Perkins Wilder

Categories: Drama

Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-04 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Wilder examines the excessive remembering of figures such as Romeo, Falstaff, and Hamlet as a way of defining Shakespeare's theatricality.

Language: en
Pages: 304

Macbeth

Authors: William Shakespeare

Categories: Drama

Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-08 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Offers explanatory notes on pages facing the text of the play, as well as an introduction to Shakespeare's language, life, and theater.

Language: en
Pages: 512

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Authors: Robert Joseph Foley

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-16 - Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

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