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Metamimesis - Imitation in Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Early German Romanticism (Hardcover)
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Metamimesis - Imitation in Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Early German Romanticism (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Reconsiders the role played by mimesis - and by Goethe's Wilhelm
Meister as a mimetic work - in the novels of Early German
Romanticism. Mimesis, or the imitation of nature, is one of the
most important concepts in eighteenth-century German literary
aesthetics. As the century progressed, classical mimeticism came
increasingly under attack, though it also held its position in the
works of Goethe, Schiller, and Moritz. Much recent scholarship
construes Early German Romanticism's refutation of mimeticism as
its single distinguishing trait: the Romantics' conception of art
as the very negationof the ideal of imitation. In this view, the
Romantics saw art as production (poiesis): imaginative, musical,
transcendent. Mattias Pirholt's book not only problematizes this
view of Romanticism, but also shows that reflections on mimesis are
foundational for the German Romantic novel, as is Goethe's great
pre-Romantic novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. Among the
novels examined are Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde, shown to be
transgressive in its use of the aesthetics of imitation; Novalis's
Heinrich von Ofterdingen, interpreted as an attempt to construct
the novel as a self-imitating world; and Clemens Brentano's Godwi,
seen to signal the endof Early Romanticism, both fulfilling and
ironically deconstructing the self-reflective mimeticism of the
novels that came before it. Mattias Pirholt is a Research Fellow in
the Department of Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden.
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