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The Epic Imaginary - Political Power and its Legitimations in Eighteenth-Century German Literature (Hardcover)
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The Epic Imaginary - Political Power and its Legitimations in Eighteenth-Century German Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Studien Zur Deutschen Literatur
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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 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.
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