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No physical discipline had more expectations attached to it around 1800 than the study of electricity. The literary and philosophical avant-garde of the 1790s took an active part in the debate on its ideological status. The transfer between literature and science, which was by no means only one-way, succeeds through a concept of symbol developed by authors such as Novalis and Wilhelm Ritter in their engagement with the philosophy of their age. However, this synergy soon becomes the problem rather than its solution, as in the case of Kleist, for example.

Neither older empiricist positions that genre is an abstract concept, useless for the study of individual works of literature, nor the recent (post) modern reluctance to subject literary production to any kind of classification seem to have stilled the discussion on the various aspects of genre in classical literature. Having moved from more or less essentialist and/or prescriptive positions towards a more dynamic conception of the generic model, research on genre is currently considering "pushing beyond the boundaries," "impurity," "instability," "enrichment" and "genre-bending." The aim...

Karl August Bottiger, uber den man oft, ohne ihn zu lesen, schreibt, wird hier als Autor ernst genommen. CONRAD WIEDEMANN beobachtet Bottigers Faszination durch das Phanomen moderner Urbanitat, wie sie sich im Berliner Reisetagebuch und Bottigers Kritik der autonomen Antikeaneignung des Grostadters Schadow auert. BERNHARD FISCHER erkennt in Bottigers Messberichten fur die Allgemeine Zeitung journalistische Glanzstucke, durch Voss' Homerubersetzung inspirierte Poesien der modernen Warenwelt. KLAUS GERLACH, der Bottiger auf der Grundlage seiner Iffland-Monographie und seiner Theaterkritiken...

In den letzten Jahren gilt das Interesse der Forschung uber Eckhart mehr und mehr auch seiner Uberlieferung und Wirkung. Hier wird erstmals ein Redaktor seiner Werke in den Mittelpunkt einer Studie gestellt. Der benediktinische Laienbruder Lienhart Peuger aus Melk, auch als Verfasser von Reimpaarreden und als Ubersetzer hervorgetreten, hat in der ersten Halfte des 15. Jahrhunderts eine der umfangreichsten Sammlungen deutscher Texte Eckharts zusammengestellt. Der erste Teil der vorliegenden Arbeit gilt Peugers Person und seinen literarischen Interessen. Peuger legte mit mehr als 20...

Der Band versammelt Beitrage, die in interdisziplinarer Perspektive Probleme mediavistischer Memoria-Forschung, die humanistische Memorialkultur wie auch das Erinnern in neuerer und neuester Literatur behandeln. Dabei konzentrieren sich die Studien zum einen auf die problemgeschichtliche Frage nach dem Verstandnis von "kulturellem Gedachtnis" und Identitat einerseits sowie Fiktionalitat andererseits. Zum andern thematisiert der Band das in der jungeren Forschungsdiskussion nur peripher behandelte Verhaltnis von Erinnerung und Erkenntnis.

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803) is one of the most important figures in the history of German literature. He is seen as paving the way for the age of sentimentalism, Sturm und Drang, and the literature of experience. Klopstock was an ingenious linguistic innovator, and he established a body of work of lasting significance with his epic "The Messiah," and with his odes, dramas and poetic writings. With his wide network of connections with Enlightenment poets and thinkers, he was a focus of the intellectual world of his age.

The Hamburg Klopstock Edition is the first complete...

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803) is one of the most important figures in the history of German literature. He is seen as paving the way for the age of sentimentalism, Sturm und Drang, and the literature of experience. Klopstock was an ingenious linguistic innovator, and he established a body of work of lasting significance with his epic "The Messiah," and with his odes, dramas and poetic writings. With his wide network of connections with Enlightenment poets and thinkers, he was a focus of the intellectual world of his age.

The Hamburg Klopstock Edition is the first complete...

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803) is one of the most important figures in the history of German literature. He is seen as paving the way for the age of sentimentalism, Sturm und Drang, and the literature of experience. Klopstock was an ingenious linguistic innovator, and he established a body of work of lasting significance with his epic "The Messiah," and with his odes, dramas and poetic writings. With his wide network of connections with Enlightenment poets and thinkers, he was a focus of the intellectual world of his age.

The Hamburg Klopstock Edition is the first complete...