Pretexts for Writing
Autor Seán M Williamsen Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2019
Around 1800, print culture became a particularly rich source for metaphors about thinking as well as writing, nowhere more so than in the German tradition of Dichter und Denker. Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel (among many others) used the preface in order to reflect on the problems of writing itself, and its interpretation. If Sterne teaches us that a material book enables mind games as much as it gives expression to them, the Germans made these games more theoretical still. Weaving in authors from Antiquity to Agamben, Williams shows how European–and, above all, German–Romanticism was a watershed in the history of the preface. The playful, paradoxical strategies that Romantic writers invented are later played out in continental philosophy, and in post-Structuralist literature. The preface is a prompt for playful thinking with texts, as much as it is conventionally the prosaic product of such an exercise.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781684480524
ISBN-10: 1684480523
Pagini: 278
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Bucknell University Press
ISBN-10: 1684480523
Pagini: 278
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Bucknell University Press
Notă biografică
Seán M. Williams is a lecturer in German and European cultural history in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sheffield, UK, following an appointment as Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow. He was previously lecturer (“wissenschaftlicher Assistent”) in German and comparative literature at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He has publishedon German literature and philosophy around 1800, in comparative contexts.
Recenzii
"Pretexts for Writing discusses the history of the literary and philosophical self-authored preface in the German speaking world around 1800 with an intensity and analytical depth previously unachieved in scholarship."
"Recommended."
"a study of tremendous academic rigor with original insights. it shows deep knowledge of both eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature and philosophy and the many conversations in contemporary literary studies pertaining to them.it is an achievement in scholarship pertaining to the age of Goethe, romanticism, and literary studies at large."
"This debut book, in short, contains much that is scintillant and surely announces the arrival of an important new scholarly voice in Germanistik."
"This book is perceptive, timely, and ambitious: perceptive in that it zeroes in on serious gaps in research, the exploration of which may alter our views of eighteenth-century German literature."
"Pretexts for Writing is an insightful, original, and persuasive work—compelling pretexts for reading."
Descriere
In this incisive, original book, Seán Williams reads prefaces to German literature and philosophy around 1800 as pretexts for writing, examining three of the most remarkable preface-writers of that era—Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel—in the contexts not only of German, but also European print culture, thought, and literature.