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UNINA9910788690303321 |
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Autore |
Payne Charlton |
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The epic imaginary [[electronic resource] ] : political power and its legitimations in eighteenth-century German literature / / Charlton Payne |
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Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-62831-7 |
3-11-027199-0 |
9786613940766 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studien zur deutschen Literatur, , 0081-7236 ; ; Bd. 197 |
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Soggetti |
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German literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
Politics and literature - Germany - History - 18th century |
Epic literature, German - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: The Epic Imaginary in Eighteenth-Century German Literature -- 1. The Epic Genre and the Question of Legitimacy in Eighteenth-Century Poetics -- 2. The Epic Prosody of the Sublime Nation: Klopstock's Messias -- Excursus: The Passions of Klopstock and Badiou -- 3. The Politics and Poetics of Epic World Citizenship in Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea. -- 4. Wieland's Parodic Humanism -- Epilogue: Brentano's Romanzen vom Rosenkranz and the Romantic Epic -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names |
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This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent - and hence legitimating - stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power. Manifest in eighteenth-century poetics above all in the disjunction between programmatic definitions of the epic and actual experiments with the genre, this ambivalence can also arise within a single epic over the course of its narrative. The present study thus traces how particular eighteenth-century epics |
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