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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Les Essais esthétiques de Humboldt sont à plusieurs titres un texte-frontière : marquant un certain détachement vis-à-vis de Schiller et, conjointement un approfondissement de l’amitié avec Goethe, ces essais s’avèrent décisifs dans la formation de la pensée humboldtienne. Outre que l’auteur, dans ses analyses, dépasse parfois la philosophie kantienne sur laquelle il avait rêvé de fonder une théorie des genres, sa réflexion esthétique l’amène à s’intéresser aux problèmes du langage. Parallèlement à l’édition allemande, Humboldt en publie, sous la forme d’un article à Madame de Staël, une courte version adaptée explicitement au public français, article qui témoigne de la vigueur, mais aussi des limites, des échanges intellectuels entre la France et l’Allemagne, à l’aube du xixe siècle.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, --- Philosophy --- esthétique

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To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.

Geschichtsdenken. --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, von *1749-1832*. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

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Originally published in 1970. For Sigurd Burckhardt, literary interpretation began with the discovery of an "inconsistency" in a text. Minimizing the possibility that the writer has "unconsciously" fallen into an inconsistency in the use of material, the true interpreter, Burckhardt believes, abandons a tendency to "correct" the writer and seeks instead a new formulation by which the inconsistency can be seen as a part of a work's essential unity. "Whether I search for the meaning of a word or for the meaning of my life," he wrote, "I am looking for something under which I can subsume the otherwise unrelated and meaningless particular so as to place it in a larger order." That method, so characteristic of Burckhardt's criticism, underlies his studies of Goethe and Kleist and unifies the essays of this volume. Prior to his death in December 1966, Professor Burckhardt had considered the possibility of collecting his writings on Goethe and Kleist. One essay had never been published; others had appeared only in German or were available in scattered sources. The preparation of the essays for publication, a service of professors Bernhard Blume and Roy Harvey Pearce, makes possible this impressive demonstration of their late colleague's interest in German literature. The seven critical studies are introduced by an essay that makes explicit the concern for language implicit throughout the volume. Burckhardt proceeds by close adherence to the text and by analysis of its writer's use of language and structure. He interprets Goethe's Prometheus, Pandora, Iphigenie, Tasso, Die natürliche Tochter, and Egmont and Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg and Die Hermannsschlacht. He provides original and challenging interpretations, shaping each into a self-contained entity.

Kleist, Heinrich von, --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, --- Literary essays