The life of August Wilhelm Schlegel : cosmopolitan of art and poetry
This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel s extraordinarily diverse interests and w...
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| Médium: | Livre numérique |
| Jazyk: | Anglais |
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Cambridge :
Open Book Publishers
2017.
Marseille : OpenEdition |
| Edice: | OBP collection
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| On-line přístup: | Ressource accessible en libre accès Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM ; Accès complet au document dans sa version HTML. Pas d'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub). |
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Description d'après la consultation, 2018-01-16 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : 662 pages OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Texte imprimé, Cambridge, Open Book Publishers, 2016 |
| Shrnutí: | This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel s extraordinarily diverse interests and writings left a vast intellectual legacy, making him a foundational figure in several branches of knowledge. He was one of the last thinkers in Europe able to practise as well as to theorise, and to attempt to comprehend the nature of culture without being forced to be a narrow specialist. With his brother Friedrich, for example, Schlegel edited the avant-garde Romantic periodical Athenaeum; and he produced with his wife Caroline a translation of Shakespeare, the first metrical version into any foreign language. Schlegel s Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature were a defining force for Coleridge and for the French Romantics. But his interests extended to French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literature, as well to the Greek and Latin classics, and to Sanskrit. The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel is the first attempt to engage with this totality, to combine an account of Schlegel s life and times with a critical evaluation of his work and its influence. Through the study of one man s rich life, incorporating the most recent scholarship, theoretical approaches, and archival resources, while remaining easily accessible to all readers, Paulin has recovered the intellectual climate of Romanticism in Germany and traced its development into a still-potent international movement. The extraordinarily wide scope and variety of Schlegel s activities have hitherto acted as a barrier to literary scholars, even in Germany. In Roger Paulin, whose career has given him the knowledge and the experience to grapple with such an ambitious project, Schlegel has at last found a worthy exponent |
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| Popis jednotky: | Description d'après la consultation, 2018-01-16 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : 662 pages OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| Médium: | Navigateur Web |
| Bibliografie: | Bibliogr. Notes bibliogr. Index, biographie |
| ISBN: | 9782821881709 |
| Přístup: | L'accès complet au document est ouvert à tous dans sa version HTML. L'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub ) est réservé aux usagers des établissements qui en ont fait l'acquisition. |