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Author:

Trop, Gabriel, author.

Title:

Poetry as a way of life : aesthetics and askesis in the German eighteenth century / Gabriel Trop.

Publisher:

Northwestern University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xii, 388 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

German poetry--18th century--History and criticism.
Aesthetics in literature.
Germany--Intellectual life--18th century.
Aesthetics in literature.
German poetry.
Intellectual life.
Germany.
1700 - 1799.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-382) and index.

Contents:

Afterword. World regeneration. The improbable coherence of contingent things : aesthetic exercises in the work of Alexander Baumgarten -- The persistence of the fragile world -- Resistance to harmony and the limits of order -- Poetic modalities of being -- Disequilibrium and the movement of poetry -- Stimulation and disorganization in Novalis's Hymns to the night -- Difference/indifference : Novalis's The novices of Sais -- Incited speech -- Pleasure, utility, and transcendental saturation -- The depth of the surface and anacreontic reflexivity -- Anacreontic play and the disorganization of transcendental orders -- The death of Anacreon -- Afterword. World regeneration.

ISBN:

0810130092
9780810130098

OCLC:

(OCoLC)879583906

LCCN:

2014038244

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)