Romantic poets, critics, and other madmen
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Romantic poets, critics, and other madmen
Harvard University Press, c1998
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: pbk ISBN 9780674002029
Description
Few can match Charles Rosen's cultivation and discernment, whether as pianist, music historian, or critic. Here he gives us a performance of literary criticism as high art, a critical conjuring of the Romantic period by way of some of its central texts.
"What is the real business of the critic?" Rosen asks of George Bernard Shaw in one of his essays. It is a question he answers throughout this collection as he demonstrates and analyzes various critical approaches. In writing about the Romantic poets Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, William Cowper, and Friedrich Hoelderlin, he examines the kind of criticism which attempts to uncover concealed code. He investigates the relationship between Romantic aesthetic theory and artworks, and explores the way Romantic art criticism has been practiced by critics from Friedrich Schlegel to Walter Benjamin. In essays on Honore de Balzac, Robert Schumann, Gustave Flaubert, and others, he highlights the intersections between Romantic art and music; the artist's separation of life and artistic representations of it; and the significance of the established text.
With an apt comparison or a startling juxtaposition, Rosen opens whole worlds of insight, as in his linking of Caspar David Friedrich's landscape painting and Schumann's music, or in his review of the theory and musicology of Heinrich Schenker alongside the work of Roman Jakobson.
Throughout this volume we hear the voice of a shrewd aesthetic interpreter, performing the critic's task even as he redefines it in his sparkling fashion.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Romantic illusions: the definitive text, Honore de Balzac et al
- the intense inane - religious revivial in English, French and German romanticism, M.K. Abrams and William Empson
- separating life and art - romantic documents, romantic punctuation, Gustave Flaubert and George Gordon Byron
- the cookbook as romantic pastoral, Elizabeth David
- secret codes, Caspar David Friedrich and Robert Schumann
- mad poets, William Cowper et al. Part 2 Approaches to criticism: the ruins of Walter Benjamin - German and English baroque drama, romantic aesthetics and symbolist theory of language
- concealed structures, Heinrich Schenker et al
- ambiguous intentions, William Empson
- the journalist critic as hero, George Bernard Shaw.
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ISBN 9780674779518
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"What is the real business of the critic?", Charles Rosen asks of George Bernard Shaw in one of his essays. It is a question he answers throughout this collection as he demonstrates and analyzes various critical approaches. In writing about the Romantic poets Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, William Cowper, and Friedrich Holderlin, Rosen examines the kind of criticism which attempts to uncover concealed code. He investigates the relationship between Romantic aesthetic theory and artworks, and explores the way Romantic art criticism has been practiced by critics from Friedrich Sclegel to Walter Benjamin. In essays on Honore de Balzac, Robert Schumann, Gustave Flaubert, and others, Rosen highlights the intersections between Romantic art and music; the artist's separation of life and artistic representations of it; and the significance of the established text.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Romantic illusions: the definitive text, Honore de Balzac et al
- the intense inane - religious revivial in English, French and German romanticism, M.K. Abrams and William Empson
- separating life and art - romantic documents, romantic punctuation, Gustave Flaubert and George Gordon Byron
- the cookbook as romantic pastoral, Elizabeth David
- secret codes, Caspar David Friedrich and Robert Schumann
- mad poets, William Cowper et al. Part 2 Approaches to criticism: the ruins of Walter Benjamin - German and English baroque drama, romantic aesthetics and symbolist theory of language
- concealed structures, Heinrich Schenker et al
- ambiguous intentions, William Empson
- the journalist critic as hero, George Bernard Shaw.
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