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This study analyses the emergence of aesthetic theory in eighteenth-century Germany in relation to contemporary theories of the nature of language and signs. As well as being extremely relevant to the discussion of literary theory, this perspective casts much light on Enlightenment aesthetics. The central text under consideration shows that the extended comparison of poetry and the plastic arts contained in that major work of aesthetic criticism rests upon a theory of signs and constitutes a complex and global theory of aesthetic signification. His analysis of Laocoon is preceded by chapters...

In this book, the author has three aims: (1) to elaborate an interpretation of Goethe's lyric poetry adequate to the intricacies of its subject matter; (2) to demonstrate the significance of that poetry to the development of European Romanticism; (3) to establish a method of inquiry that weaves together the major strands of theoretical reflection in modern literary studies. Remarkably enough, no study of Goethe's early lyric poetry has been published in English in the last fifty years. But the reading of this poetry the author presents is not intended merely to introduce an English readership...

In this book, the author has three aims: (1) to elaborate an interpretation of Goethe's lyric poetry adequate to the intricacies of its subject matter; (2) to demonstrate the significance of that poetry to the development of European Romanticism; (3) to establish a method of inquiry that weaves together the major strands of theoretical reflection in modern literary studies. Remarkably enough, no study of Goethe's early lyric poetry has been published in English in the last fifty years. But the reading of this poetry the author presents is not intended merely to introduce an English readership...

Acht ausgewiesene Literaturwissenschaftler demonstrieren in diesem Buch am gleichen Untersuchungsgegenstand - Kleists Erzählung "Das Erdbeben von Chili" - unterschiedliche Möglichkeiten der Annäherung an einen literarischen Text. Gleichzeitig erläutern sie die Voraussetzungen ihrer Methode und ihre Vorgehensweise auch theoretisch. Die direkte Konfrontation läßt dabei die Reichweite und die Grenzen der verschiedenen Methoden besonders deutlich hervortreten: eine anschauliche und für jeden literaturwissenschaftlich interessierten Leser anregende und informative Form des...