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Edinburgh German Yearbook 12 - Repopulating the Eighteenth Century: Second-Tier Writing in the German Enlightenment... Edinburgh German Yearbook 12 - Repopulating the Eighteenth Century: Second-Tier Writing in the German Enlightenment (Hardcover)
Michael Wood, Johannes Birgfeld; Contributions by Johannes Birgfeld, Michael Wood, Kristin Eichhorn, …
R2,351 Discovery Miles 23 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In essays that examine particular non-canonical works and writers in their wider cultural context, this volume "repopulates" the German Enlightenment. German literature and thought flourished in the eighteenth century, when a culture considered a European backwater came to assert worldwide significance. This was an age in which repeated attempts to reform German literary and philosophical culture were made - often only to be overtaken within a few decades. It ushered in generations of exceptionally gifted poets and thinkers including Klopstock, Lessing, Goethe, Kant, and Schiller, whose names still dominate our understanding of the German Enlightenment. Yet the period also brought with it new means of accessing and disseminating culture and a rapid increase in cultural production. The leading lights of eighteenth-century German culture operated against the backdrop of a yet more diverse and vivid cast of literary and philosophical figures since consigned to the second tier of German culture. Through essays that examine particular non-canonical works and writers in their wider cultural context, this collection repopulates the German Enlightenment with these largely forgotten movements, writers, and literary circles. It offers new insights into the development of genres such as thenovel, the fable, and the historical drama, and assesses the dynamics that led to individual authors, circles, and schools of thought being left behind in their time and passed over or inadequately understood to this day. Contributors: Johannes Birgfeld, Stephanie Blum, Julia Bohnengel, Kristin Eichhorn, Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge, Jonathan Blake Fine, J. C. Lees, Leonard von Morze, Ellen Pilsworth, Joanna Raisbeck, Ritchie Robertson, Michael Wood. Michael Wood is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in German at the University of Edinburgh. Johannes Birgfeld teaches Modern German Literature at the University of the Saarland.

Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters - Perspectives on Exchange in the Sattelzeit (Hardcover): Michael Wood, Sandro Jung Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters - Perspectives on Exchange in the Sattelzeit (Hardcover)
Michael Wood, Sandro Jung; Contributions by Barry Murnane, Lucy Wood, Michael Wood, …
R2,673 Discovery Miles 26 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Focusing on particular cases of Anglo-German exchange in the period known as the Sattelzeit (1750-1850), this volume of essays explores how drama and poetry played a central role in the development of British and German literary cultures. With increased numbers of people studying foreign languages, engaging in translation work, and traveling between Britain and Germany, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to unprecedented opportunities for intercultural encounters and transnational dialogues. While most research on Anglo-German exchange has focused on the novel, this volume seeks to reposition drama and poetry within discourses of national identity, intercultural transfer, and World Literature. The essays in the collection cohere in affirming the significance of poetry and drama as literary forms that shaped German and British cultures in the period. The essays also consider the nuanced movement of texts and ideas across genres and cultures, the formation and reception of poetic personae, and the place of illustration in cross-cultural, textual exchange.

Enlightened War - German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz (Hardcover, New): Elisabeth... Enlightened War - German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz (Hardcover, New)
Elisabeth Krimmer, Patricia Anne Simpson; Contributions by Arndt Niebisch, David Colclasure, Elisabeth Krimmer, …
R2,782 Discovery Miles 27 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Enlightened War investigates the multiple and complex interactions between warfare and Enlightenment thought. Although the Enlightenment is traditionally identified with the ideals of progress, eternal peace, reason, and self-determination, Enlightenment discourse unfolded during a period of prolonged European warfare from the Seven Years' War to the Napoleonic conquest of Europe. The essays in this volume explore the palpable influence of war on eighteenth-century thought and argue for an ideological affinity among war, Enlightenment thought, and its legacy. The essays are interdisciplinary, engaging with history, art history, philosophy, military theory, gender studies, and literature and with historical events and cultural contexts from the early Enlightenment through German Classicism and Romanticism. The volume enriches our understanding of warfare in the eighteenth century and shows how theories and practices of war impacted concepts of subjectivity, national identity, gender, and art. It also sheds light on the contemporary discussion of the legitimacy of violence by juxtaposing theories of war, concepts of revolution, and human rights discourses. Contributors: Johannes Birgfeld, David Colclasure, Sara Eigen Figal, Ute Frevert, Wolf Kittler, Elisabeth Krimmer, Waltraud Maierhofer, Arndt Niebisch, Felix Saure, Galili Shahar, Patricia Anne Simpson, Inge Stephan. Elisabeth Krimmer is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis, and Patricia Anne Simpson is Associate Professor of German Studies at Montana State University.

Aufklarungen - Strategien Und Kontroversen Vom 17. Bis 21. Jahrhundert (Hardcover): Johannes Birgfeld, Stephanie Catani, Anne... Aufklarungen - Strategien Und Kontroversen Vom 17. Bis 21. Jahrhundert (Hardcover)
Johannes Birgfeld, Stephanie Catani, Anne Conrad; Contributions by Sophia Mehrbrey
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