Sng Middling Romanticism

Reading in the Gaps, from Kant to Ashbery
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8843-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Lit Z

Examines various forms of the middle (such as the medium, moderation, and mediocrity) that re-negotiated in the writings of British and German romanticism, along with a consideration of how our own relationship to romanticism is influenced by its medial thinking.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sng, Zachary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Deutscher Idealismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1

1. Parenthyrsos: On the Medium of the Sublime 17

2. The Medium Eats the Message: Mediatization
and Force in Kleist’s “Michael Kohlhaas” 38

3. Radically Neutral: Hegel, Haiti, Kleist 71

4. Love Language: Plato, Shelley, Schlegel 104

5. This Is (Not) a Joint: Two Readings of Friedrich Hölderlin 127

6. Lyric Meditude: On Hölderlin and Ashbery 154

After Words 173

Acknowledgments 187

Notes 189

Works Cited 217

Index 233

Über Autor(innen)

Sng Zachary:

Zachary Sng, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Brown University, is the author of The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist (Stanford University Press, 2010). His areas of research include German and British aesthetics, the history of rhetoric, literary theory, and European romanticism.Zachary Sng, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Brown University, is the author of The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist (Stanford University Press, 2010). His areas of research include German and British aesthetics, the history of rhetoric, literary theory, and European romanticism.