Science, Satire and Wit: The Essays of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: 41 (Studies in Modern German Literature) - Hardcover

Buechler, Ralph W

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820413674 ISBN 13: 9780820413679

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1991

Synopsis

This book attempts a critical assessment of the eighteenth-century German essay utilizing the journal essays of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg as a paradigm. It places a socio-historical and genre-theoretical analysis of the eighteenth-century German essay across a close reading of Lichtenberg's essays. The study demonstrates that Lichtenberg's essays operate as critical communication for purposes of instruction and satire. What is more, such critical communication alternates with a critique of enlightenment itself. Finally, the methodology of Lichtenberg's essays is shown to be instrumental in developing imaginative and freely-associative literary strategies.

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Review

-Die Arbeit bietet neben der gattungsanalytischen Diskussion eine Reihe wichtiger historischer Erlauterungen zur Situation der deutschen Literatur und Philosophie im 18.Jahrundert. Sie ist insofern auch eine gelungene Einfuhrung fur ein grosseres englischsprachiges Lesepublikum.- (Rainer Baasner, Archiv fur das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen)
-Ralph Buechler is to be commended for exploring texts too long neglected. His incisive discussions of several of Lichtenberg's 'essays' demonstrate that they are worthy of wider attention.- (Michael M. Metzger, The German Quarterly)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820413674
• ISBN 13: 9780820413679
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 311