Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Chronology of early Romanticism
- Introduction
- 1 Formation and main representatives of early Romanticism in Germany
- 2 Poetry in the early Romantic theory of the Schlegel brothers
- 3 The theory of Romantic poetry
- 4 Novalis and the mystical dimension of early Romantic theory
- 5 Wackenroder's and Tieck's conceptions of painting and music
- 6 Theory of language, hermeneutics, and encyclopaedistics
- Conclusion: early German Romanticism and literary modernity
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index of works cited and primary sources
- Index of subjects and names
6 - Theory of language, hermeneutics, and encyclopaedistics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Chronology of early Romanticism
- Introduction
- 1 Formation and main representatives of early Romanticism in Germany
- 2 Poetry in the early Romantic theory of the Schlegel brothers
- 3 The theory of Romantic poetry
- 4 Novalis and the mystical dimension of early Romantic theory
- 5 Wackenroder's and Tieck's conceptions of painting and music
- 6 Theory of language, hermeneutics, and encyclopaedistics
- Conclusion: early German Romanticism and literary modernity
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index of works cited and primary sources
- Index of subjects and names
Summary
Originally, the Jena group was not at all aware of the new approaches to art pursued by Wackenroder and Tieck, especially to painting and music. Through A. W. Schlegel's reviews in the ALZ and Friedrich Schlegel's move to Berlin in the summer of 1797, the Jena Romantics became the first intellectuals in Germany, however, to take cognizance of these new trends and connect them with their own endeavours. With Friedrich Schlegel's departure from Jena, the centre of gravity of early Romanticism occasionally shifted to Berlin. It was here that the Athenaeum, the journal that soon became the target of widespread polemics in Germany, was published, and that A. W. Schlegel delivered his grand lecture courses on Romantic critical theory. Another publication closely linked with Berlin and also subject to violent attacks was Friedrich Schlegel's novel Lucinde of 1799. In the wake of these events, one can no longer speak of a Jena Romanticism in the same tone as during the time prior to Friedrich Schlegel's move, although as far as Romanticism is concerned, the great days for Jena were still to come. They occurred in the autumn of 1799, when Friedrich Schlegel moved back to Jena, followed by Dorothea, and when Ludwig and Amalie Tieck also settled there. For a short time, a union of the early Romantic school took place in A. W. Schlegel's and Caroline's house on the Löbdergraben. Novalis, living close by in Weißenfels, was a frequent participant in this circle, as was Schelling, a philosophy professor at the university.
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- German Romantic Literary Theory , pp. 260 - 298Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993
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