Fragments of the Feminine Sublime in Friedrich Schlegel and James Joyce

Fragments of the Feminine Sublime in Friedrich Schlegel and James Joyce
Title Fragments of the Feminine Sublime in Friedrich Schlegel and James Joyce PDF eBook
Author Ginette Verstraete
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 296
Release 1998-01-15
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1438422911

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This is the first book to extensively study Joyce's work in the context of Germanic Romantic literary theory. It illustrates how Joyce's modern and postmodern innovation of the novel finds its theoretical roots in Friedrich Schlegel's conception of the Romantic, fragmentary novel. Verstraete discusses the relevance of Schlegel's early Romanticism to the young Joyce's essays on symbolic-realistic drama and argues that what has traditionally been described as Joyce's personal appropriation of Hegel's dialectics can better be understood in terms of Schlegel's ironic approach to philosophy. She relates Schlegel's concepts of irony and of the fragment to his feminist critique of nineteenth-century bourgeois art, and of Kant's categories of the beautiful and the sublime. She argues that Schlegel's ironization of the sublime yields a rhetorical subversion of the opposition between male artist and female model, art and reality, as well as between the sublime and the beautiful. Verstraete illustrates this critical and political force of what she calls the "feminine sublime" at work in Schlegel's essays on Greek comedy and in his novel Lucinde. The book demonstrates how the Romantic (feminine) sublime, as the site where autonomous art generates its own critique, offers us the tools with which to interpret Joyce's postmodern innovations of Romantic art.

Fragments of the Feminine Sublime in Friedrich Schlegel and James Joyce

Fragments of the Feminine Sublime in Friedrich Schlegel and James Joyce
Title Fragments of the Feminine Sublime in Friedrich Schlegel and James Joyce PDF eBook
Author Ginette Verstraete
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 298
Release 1998-01-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780791436271

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Traces the early German Romantic origins of Joyce's modern and postmodern innovation of the novel.

The Romantic Idea of the Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophy of History

The Romantic Idea of the Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophy of History
Title The Romantic Idea of the Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophy of History PDF eBook
Author Asko Nivala
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 282
Release 2017-02-03
Genre History
ISBN 135179728X

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The nineteenth-century Romantic understanding of history is often confused with the longing for the past Golden Age. In this book, the Golden Age is seen from a new angle by discussing it in the context of the works of Friedrich Schlegel, who saw it not as bygone, but to be produced in the future.

James Joyce and German Theory

James Joyce and German Theory
Title James Joyce and German Theory PDF eBook
Author Barbara Laman
Publisher Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Pages 188
Release 2004
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780838640296

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James Joyce's aesthetic theories, as explicated by Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and in the Scylla and Charybdis chapter of Ulysses, have generally been assumed to be grounded in Aristotle and Aquinas. Indeed, Stephen mentions those thinkers especially in Portrait, at the same time as he rejects Romantic notions. This book investigates the extent to which Joyce's theories as well as his practice, beginning with his critical writings and Stephen Hero, are indebted to early German Romanticism. The allusions, affinities, and analogies, as well as differential relationships between the Joycean oeuvre and texts of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Schiegel, and Novalis are often palpable, sometimes tentative, but clearly present in most of his works, including Finnegans Wake.

Beckett, Joyce and the Art of the Negative

Beckett, Joyce and the Art of the Negative
Title Beckett, Joyce and the Art of the Negative PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 246
Release 2016-08-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 940120120X

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This collection presents articles that examine Joyce and Beckett’s mutual interest in and use of the negative for artistic purposes. The essays range from philological to psychoanalytic approaches to the literature, and they examine writing from all stages of the authors’ careers. The essays do not seek a direct comparison of author to author; rather they lay out the intellectual and philosophical foundations of their work, and are of interest to the beginning student as well as to the specialist.

Romantic Poetry and the Fragmentary Imperative

Romantic Poetry and the Fragmentary Imperative
Title Romantic Poetry and the Fragmentary Imperative PDF eBook
Author Christopher A. Strathman
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 218
Release 2012-02-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 079148324X

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Romantic Poetry and the Fragmentary Imperative locates Byron (and, to a lesser extent, Joyce) within a genealogy of romantic poetry understood not so much as imaginative self-expression or ideological case study but rather as what the German romantics call "romantische poesie"—an experimental form of poetry loosely based on the fragmentary flexibility and acute critical self-consciousness of Socratic dialogue. The book is therefore less an attempt to present yet another theory of romanticism than it is an effort to recover a more precise sense of the relationship between Byron's fragmentary or "workless" poetic and romantic poetry generally, and to articulate connections between romantic poetry and modern literature and literary theory. The book also argues that the "exigency" or "imperative" of the fragmentary works of Schlegel, Byron, Joyce, and Blanchot is not so much the expression of a style as it is an acknowledgment of what remains unthought in thinking.

James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism

James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism
Title James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism PDF eBook
Author Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 262
Release 2001-08-13
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521009584

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In this 2001 book Jean-Michel Rabaté approaches the Joycean canon through the concept of 'egoism'.