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A history of poetics German scholarly aesthetics and poetics in international context, 1770-1960

By Sandra , Hill-Zenk , Anja; Richter

Book information

Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Year
2010
ISBN
9783110222449, 9783110222456, 3110222442
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2149143 bytes)
Pages
xiv, 455 p\470
Time added
2020-11-29 04:20:17

Description

Since the 1990s, following the end of postmodernism, literary theory has lost much of its dynamics. This book aims at revitalising literary theory exploring two of its historical bases: German poetics and aesthetics. Beginning in the 1770s and ending in the 1950s, the book examines nearly 200 years of this history, thereby providing the reader with a first history of poetics as well as with bibliographies of the subject. The analysis not only shows the differentiation of historical accounts in the field, but also reflects how current literary theory could move forward through the rediscovery of sunken ideas.

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