From Goethe to Novalis : studies in classicism and romanticism : festschrift for Dennis F. Mahoney in celebration of his sixty-fifth birthday /

"Achim von Arnim, Bildungsroman, Classicism, German literature, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Dennis F. Mahoney, Novalis, novel, Jean Paul, Romanticism, Friedrich Schiller" --

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Other Authors: Mahoney, Dennis F., 1950- (honouree.), Mieder, Wolfgang (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Tabula gratulatoria
  • Preface
  • Classicism. Goethe seen anew: Egon Günther's film Lotte in Weimar
  • The thematic significance of astrology in Schiller's Wallenstein
  • The French Revolution as volcano: Goethe and Georg Forster
  • Primeval formation: interpreting Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre with the help of Goethe's Urworte. Orphisch
  • Goethe's autobiographical writings
  • Schillers Der Geisterseher: a princely experiment or the creation of a "spiritualist"
  • On the periphery of Weimar classicism: passion, patriarchy and political machinations in Caroline von Wolzogen's Agnes von Lilien (1797) and Barbara Honigmann's Eine Liebe aus nichts
  • Maria Stuart adaptations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: from "classical" parodies to contemporary politics
  • Transition. The French Revolution and the bildungsroman
  • Painting the red flower blue: developments in research on the novels of the Age of Goethe since 1968
  • The apprenticeship of the reader: the bildungsroman of the "Age of Goethe"
  • The channeling of a literary revolution: Goethe, Schiller, and the genesis of German romanticism
  • Romanticism. The myth of death and resurrection in Heinrich von Ofterdingen
  • Double into doppelgänger: the genesis of the doppelgänger motif in the novels of Jean Paul and E.T.A. Hoffmann
  • Stages of enligthenment: Lessing's Nathan der Weise and Novalis' Heinrich von Ofterdingen
  • A "schützenkönig" for Kuhschnappel: social reality and wish projection in Jean Paul's Siebenkäs
  • Human history as natural history in Heinrich von Ofterdingen and Die Llehrlinge zu Sais
  • "Was nicht ist, kann noch werden": proverbs and early German romanticism
  • Old, new, and (un)known worlds: history and fiction in Achim von Arnim's Die Kronenwächter and Edward P. Jones's The known world
  • Romanticizing the everyday: Penelope Fitzgerald's The blue flower
  • Double trouble: uncanny secrets in E.T. A. Hoffmann's and Otto Ludwig's Das Fräulein von Scuderi
  • List of publications.