In this Book
- New Perspectives in German Literary Criticism: A Collection of Essays
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Presented here are selected critical essays from five volumes of the Poetik und Hermeneutik series published in Germany by the Wilhelm Fink Verlag of Munich. These essays represent some of the newest and most advanced thinking of fifteen leading scholars in the German-American interdisciplinary school of literary criticism. Until now no single volume has provided such an extensive contemporary treatment of literatures, problems, and methodologies representative of European criticism. The book's significance rests in the potential this new interdisciplinary criticism has for increasing the interplay between the two major critical movements of our day, namely, the objective, pragmatic Anglo-American criticism and the more subjective, phenomenological Continental criticism.
Originally published in 1979.
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Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 3-26
- I. Imitation and Illusion. From Poetik Und Hermeneutik I
- Fiction—The Filter of History
- pp. 86-104
- II. Immanent Esthetics and Esthetic Reflection, The Lyric as Paradigm of the Modern. From Poetik und Hermeneutik II
- Art and Philosophy of Art Today
- pp. 107-133
- Syntax and Obscurity in Poetry
- pp. 134-149
- Coleridge, Baudelaire, and Modernist Poetics
- pp. 150-181
- III. The No Longer Fine Arts: Border Phenomena of Esthetics. From Poetik und Hermeneutik III
- Overstepping Esthetic Limits in Visual Art
- pp. 279-296
- IV. Myth and Modern Literature. From Poetik und Hermeneutik IV
- Patterns of Communication in Joyce's Ulysses
- pp. 324-360
- V. History and Literary History. From Poetik und Hermeneutik V
- Story as Exemplum—Exemplum as Story
- pp. 393-421
- The Fall of Literary History
- pp. 422-435
- History of Art and Pragmatic History
- pp. 436-468
- Notes on Contributors
- pp. 469-474