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Memory in German Romanticism Christopher R. Clason

Memory in German Romanticism By Christopher R. Clason

Memory in German Romanticism by Christopher R. Clason


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Memory in German Romanticism treats memory as a core element in the production and reception of German art and literature of the Romantic era.

Memory in German Romanticism Summary

Memory in German Romanticism: Imagination, Image, Reception by Christopher R. Clason

Memory in German Romanticism treats memory as a core element in the production and reception of German art and literature of the Romantic era. The contributors explore the artistic expression of memory under the categories of imagination, image, and reception. Romantic literary aesthetics raises the subjective imagination to a level of primary importance for the creation of art. It goes beyond challenging reason and objectivity, two leading intellectual faculties of eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and instead elevates subjective invention to form and sustain memory and imagination. Indeed, memory and imagination, both cognitive functions, seek to assemble the elements of ones own experience, either directed toward the past (memory) or toward the future (imagination), coherently into a narrative. And like memories, images hold the potential to elicit charged emotional responses; those responses live on through time, becoming part of the spatial and temporal reception of the artist and their work. While imagination generates and images trigger and capture memories, reception creates a temporal-spatial context for art, organizing it and rendering it "memorable," both for good and for bad. Thus, through the categories of imagination, image, and reception, this volume explores the phenomenon of German Romantic memory from different perspectives and in new contexts.

About Christopher R. Clason

Christopher R. Clason is Professor Emeritus at Oakland University, with research interests in Medieval epic poetry (especially in Gottfried von Straburg's Tristan und Isolde) and German Romantic prose, particularly in the novels of E.T.A. Hoffmann. He is past president of the International Tristan Society and the International Conference on Romanticism.

Joseph D. Rockelmann is Teaching Assistant Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with research interests in German Romanticism, Ludwig Tieck, and Ekphrasis studies. Publications include Ludwig Tieck's Skillful Study of the Mind (2018), and "The Sociohistorical and Gendered Implications of Gazing Tenderly in Ludwig Tiecks Liebeszauber" (2021).

Christina M. Weiler is Teaching Assistant Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on German literature, culture, and philosophy of the long eighteenth century in a comparative and interdisciplinary framework, with a particular interest in metaphor, cognition, and environmental studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Memory in German Romanticism: Imagination, Image, Reception

Christopher R. Clason, Joseph D. Rockelmann, and Christina M. Weiler

Part I

Imagination

1 Amnesia, Chaos, Trauma: Kleists Memory Games

Steven R. Huff

2 Hoffmanns "Sandmann," Henri Bergson, and the Matter of Memory

Julian Knox

3 Memory, Fact, and Fiction: Imaginative Biographical Representation in the Novels of E.T.A. Hoffmann

Christopher R. Clason

Part II

Image

4 Memory and Self-Reflection in Sophie Tieck Bernhardi von Knorrings Fairy Tale "Der Greis im Felsen" (1800)

Christina M. Weiler

5 The Memorialization of the Aesthetic and the Aestheticization of Memory: Reading the Hermit in Novalis Heinrich von Ofterdingen

Robert E. Mottram

6 The Effect of Memory Embellishments on Reality in E.T.A. Hoffmanns "Des Vetters Eckfenster"

Joseph D. Rockelmann

7 Images for Memories: From Ekphrasis to Excess of Memory in German Romantic Literature

Beate I. Allert

Part III

Reception

8 The Failure of Social Memory to Validate the Icelandic Translation of "Der blonde Eckbert" (1835)

Shaun F.D. Hughes

9 Urban Palimpsests and Contentious Memorials: Cultural Memory and Heinrich Heine

Bartell Berg

10 No Mass or Kaddish: The Forgotten Poet in Heinrich Heines Late Poetry

Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo

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NPB9781032319841
9781032319841
1032319844
Memory in German Romanticism: Imagination, Image, Reception by Christopher R. Clason
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Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2023-03-31
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