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L'eviction de Benjamin Constant du Tribunat, en 1802, lui a fait perdre l'espoir d'une carriere politique. Il va chercher la reussite dans ses travaux sur les religions et des activites litteraires. Il pense a un mariage avec Amelie Fabry et revoit Anna Lindsay, mais l'exil qui frappe Germaine de Stael lui impose de l'accompagner en Allemagne; la mort de Necker, ensuite, l'oblige a ne pas la quitter. Charlotte de Hardenberg, qui reapparait, n'est encore qu'au second rang, mais sa personnalite se dessine. En 1805, la disparition de Julie Talma, puis d'Isabelle de Charriere sont ressenties...

This literary study examines representations of social communication in the European literature of the 12th to the 16th centuries. It describes the social constellations and communicative practices (such as narration, discussion), which mark social situations. It demonstrates that the basic principles of being social already shaped literature in the Middle Ages. Besides texts of Middle High German literature, the study focuses on the concepts of social communication in two texts by Boccaccio (Filocolo, Decameron ), which exercised an especially powerful influential on the European...

In the Middle Ages, Boethius' "Consolatio Philosophiae" is one of the most influential philosophical works from Late Antiquity. It was frequently commented on and translated. This collected volume examines the commentaries and translations of the famous text from a European perspective and thus paves the way for interdisciplinary research into the medieval reception of Boethius' work. The volume contains chapters by linguists and literary scholars from a variety of disciplines, together with historians and philosophers.

Media revolutions awaken longings for the authentic. Literature and art react by turning to the facts, the action and the moment and by pretending to be life. The historical avant-garde movements, which were exemplary for much of the aesthetics around 1970, testify to this. This study explores the history and theory of aesthetics from Nietzsche to Adorno and shows examples of authenticity in various art forms (documentary literature, performance art, autobiography, narrative, collage) as an aesthetic effect.

Als Lyriker wird Gottfried Keller nur noch von wenigen Gebildeten gekannt und geschatzt, in Anthologien fristet er eher ein Schattendasein. Dass seine Gedichte eine Wiedererweckung verdienen, zeigt der vorliegende Band. Er stellt Kellers Lyrik nach ihren dominanten Merkmalen und asthetischen Formzugen in 16 Kapiteln vor. Jedes Kapitel enthalt pragnante Hinweise zu einzelnen Gedichten und eine oder mehrere exemplarische Textinterpretationen. Beabsichtigt ist die erste wissenschaftliche Gesamtdarstellung der Lyrik Kellers.

Unter den bedeutenden Autoren der Romantik ist August Wilhelm Schlegel trotz seines Einflusses einer der am wenigsten erforschten, obwohl er immer wieder als Zentralgestalt der Vermittlung zwischen den Kulturen Europas gesehen wurde. Er gilt als der wichtigste Ubersetzer (Shakespeare u.a.) unter den Romantikern und hat mit seinen Vorlesungen auch die Romantiker in anderen europaischen Landern und den USA beeinflusst. Anhand des OEuvres, der weit verzweigten Korrespondenz und der einschlagigen Rezeptionszeugnisse analysiert der Band seine Bedeutung als europaischer Kulturvermittler zwischen...

Elvis, David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, Frank Zappa, Madonna - the history of pop music is also always a history of stage performances. The Pop Concert as a Para-theatrical Form is the first systematic study to concern itself with this area of research. It deals with the foundations for understanding the particular aesthetics of the pop stage. Using the most important artistes and an analysis of their appearances, an overview is provided of the way certain types of figure have developed.

Ideas of how love is lived and how it should be lived vary depending on the different periods. In the "bourgeois" 19th century an idea was popular which today has become quite alien that partnerships are especially desirable that have their basis in childhood. An ideal existed according to which friendships of childhood days should be the basis for erotic relationships and marriages. These studies explore which concepts of love, sexuality, and also of life, society and homeland were behind this conception and what followed from this as a consequence.

This book shows Christoph Martin Wieland's independent position in the literature and culture of around 1800 in a new way: Wieland's work describes a significant knowledge transfer between the Early Modern Age and the Modern Age. This is achieved by a double reference to the knowledge base of the Enlightenment on the one hand and to the philosophical and aesthetic tradition of antiquity on the other hand. The humanist-educated academic world, religion and the narrative and rhetorical situation of the collected knowledge develop - especially in the late works - into a productive tension...

In the interdisciplinary discourse between philosophy and historical, literary, and cultural studies this book explores the relationship between historical narratives and the experiences on which they are based and which give the first impetus for a genuine need to tell the story. Here a new concept of historical experience is formulated which elucidates the pre-narrative dimensions of historical creation of meaning and thus also enables a more adequate determination of the relationship of history and narration as well as individual and collective history.

Mit der Edition dieses Briefwechsels wird eines der wichtigsten Dokumente fur die Geschichte des Gottinger Hains erstmals vollstandig zuganglich. Die fast lebenslange, vertrauliche Korrespondenz zweier seiner wichtigsten Mitglieder aus den Jahren 1774-1810 differenziert das Bild der beiden Personlichkeiten und Ihres Schaffens. Sie spiegelt deren vielfaltige Kontakte zu namhaften Zeitgenossen vor dem Hintergrund der historischen Umbruche, die besonders einschneidende Folgen fur Millers Heimatstadt Ulm hatten. Einbezogen werden erstmals vollstandig auch die Briefe dieser Korrespondenz von...

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...