LEADER 04303nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910788690303321 005 20230802003006.0 010 $a1-283-62831-7 010 $a3-11-027199-0 010 $a9786613940766 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110271997 035 $a(CKB)3360000000446132 035 $a(EBL)893489 035 $a(OCoLC)812251496 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000759384 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12319461 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000759384 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10783982 035 $a(PQKB)11744521 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC893489 035 $a(DE-B1597)174168 035 $a(OCoLC)843634927 035 $a(OCoLC)900724025 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110271997 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL893489 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10606527 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL394076 035 $a(EXLCZ)993360000000446132 100 $a20120606d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe epic imaginary$b[electronic resource] $epolitical power and its legitimations in eighteenth-century German literature /$fCharlton Payne 210 $aBerlin ;$aBoston $cDe Gruyter$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 225 0 $aStudien zur deutschen Literatur,$x0081-7236 ;$vBd. 197 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a3-11-027194-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tAcknowledgments --$tTable of Contents --$tIntroduction: The Epic Imaginary in Eighteenth-Century German Literature --$t1. The Epic Genre and the Question of Legitimacy in Eighteenth-Century Poetics --$t2. The Epic Prosody of the Sublime Nation: Klopstock's Messias --$tExcursus: The Passions of Klopstock and Badiou --$t3. The Politics and Poetics of Epic World Citizenship in Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea. --$t4. Wieland's Parodic Humanism --$tEpilogue: Brentano's Romanzen vom Rosenkranz and the Romantic Epic --$tBibliography --$tIndex of Subjects --$tIndex of Names 330 $aThis study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent - and hence legitimating - stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power. Manifest in eighteenth-century poetics above all in the disjunction between programmatic definitions of the epic and actual experiments with the genre, this ambivalence can also arise within a single epic over the course of its narrative. The present study thus traces how particular eighteenth-century epics explore an originary incompleteness of political power and its narrative legitimations. The first chapter sketches an overview of how eighteenth-century writers construct an imaginary epic genre that is assigned the task of performing the cultural work of legitimating political communities by narrating their allegedly unifying origins and borders. The subsequent chapters, however, explore how the practice of epic storytelling in works by Klopstock, Goethe, Wieland, and, in an epilogue, Brentano enact the disruptive potential of poetic language and narrative to question the legitimations of imaginary political origins and unities. 410 0$aStudien zur deutschen Literatur 606 $aGerman literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zGermany$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aEpic literature, German$xHistory and criticism 610 $a18th-Century German Literature. 610 $aC. Brentano. 610 $aC.M. Wieland. 610 $aCommunity. 610 $aEpic. 610 $aF.G. Klopstock. 610 $aJ.W. Goethe. 610 $aPolitical Imaginary. 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aEpic literature, German$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a830.9/35827 686 $aGI 1431$2rvk 700 $aPayne$b Charlton$01558662 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788690303321 996 $aThe epic imaginary$93823236 997 $aUNINA