The Language of Passion: The Order of Poetics and the Construction of a Lyric Genre 1746-1806: 104 (European University Studies, Series 18: Comparative Literature) - Softcover

Cullhed, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3631380402 ISBN 13: 9783631380406

Publisher: Peter Lang AG, 2002

Synopsis

This is a study of the theory of the lyric genre in late 18th- and early 19th-century instructional poetics by Ch. Batteux, J. A. Schlegel, J. G. Sulzer, H. Blair, J. J. Engel, J. J. Eschenburg, A. W. Schlegel, F. W. J. Schelling, F. Ast, and F. Bouterwek. Poetics can be understood as part of moral philosophy, natural history, the psychology of association, or idealist philosophy during this important period. However, the lyric genre is defined as «the language of passion» in all the sources, irrespective of their theoretical point of departure. The definitions rely on the interaction between the classical tradition of poetics and contemporary disciplines, and this tension calls for a reconsideration of neoclassical and romantic poetics. The lyric gains a stable position within different systems of genres, independent of the other genres included. It is certainly an expression of emotions, but these need not be authentic. Across all conventional epochal borders, the lyric is primarily a political and religious genre.

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About the Author:

The Author: Anna Cullhed, born 1966, received her Ph.D. at Uppsala University in 2001. She has studied Literature, Aesthetics, and Art History in Uppsala and Tübingen and taught Rhetoric and Literature at various colleges and universities in Sweden. As a fellow of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (SCASSS) she studies the relation between 18th-century poetry and poetics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang AG
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 3631380402
• ISBN 13: 9783631380406
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338