Assembly and its other in German romantic literature and thought : the inexhaustible gathering
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Assembly and its other in German romantic literature and thought : the inexhaustible gathering
（Romantic reconfigurations : studies in literature and culture 1780-1850）
Liverpool University Press, 2022
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Description
This
collection of essays turns on a shift in Romantic studies from viewing
wholeness as an absolute value to critiquing it as a limiting construction.
Wholeness and its concomitant sense of harmony, rather than a natural given, is
a construct that was assembled and disassembled, theorized and criticized, by
diverse authors and artists in a wide variety of disciplines and
socio-historical contexts, and instrumentalized for diverse purposes. The
plurality of these constructions - that Goethe's Urpflanze, for example, is not synonymous with Friedrich Schlegel's
universal progressive poetry - is but one manifestation of how "assembly"
strives but fails to be absolute. The "other" of assembly referenced in the title suggests two divergent but inseparable tendencies: firstly, how a
construction can take on the appearance of a natural given; and secondly, how
assemblages of wholeness harbor within themselves their own principle of
disarticulation. These two tendencies underlie the "inexhaustible" character of
Romantic "gatherings". As a construction passes itself off as nature, the
natural fails to account for itself as a whole. The scope of this volume
encompasses the establishment, mapping, and interrogation of assembly and its
other in German Romanticism through interdisciplinary studies on literature,
aesthetics, philosophy, drama, music, synaesthesia, mathematics, science, and
exploration.
List of contributors: Beate Allert, Frederick Burwick, Alexis B. Smith, Margaret Strair, Christina Weiler, Joshua Wilner.
Table of Contents
Part I. Romantic Assembly Across the Thresholds of Theory and Discipline
Chapter 1: From the Fluid to the Crystal: Goethe's Metamorphosis and Fichte's Science of Knowing
Beate AllertChapter 2: Alexander von Humboldt, the Naturgemalde, and Ansichten der Natur: Assembling Nature between Sensuality and Science
Christopher R. ClasonChapter 3: 'I cannot explain myself further on this matter': Maimon's Perplexed Differentials
Joshua Wilner
Part II. Romantic Assembly of Music and the StageChapter 4: Bringing Universal Truths into Dialogue: Novalis on Leibniz's Encyclopedistics and the Language of Nature
Alexis B. SmithChapter 5: Schlegel, Tieck, and Stael: Assembling Shakespeare as Weapon in the Napoleonic Culture Wars
Frederick Burwick
Part III. E.T.A. Hoffmann and the Romantic Assembly of the SensesChapter 6: Romantic Reflections and Reconfigurations: Intertextual (Dis-)Assembly in E. T. A. Hoffmann's 'Die Abenteuer der Sylvester-Nacht'
Christina WeilerChapter 7: The Theatricality of Perception: Staging Aesthetic Education in E.T.A. Hoffmann's 'Des Vetters Eckfenster'
Robert E. MottramChapter 8: Reassembling the Sensorium: Romantic Synaesthesia in Friedrich Schlegel's Literary Theory and E.T.A. Hoffmann's Intermediality
Margaret Strair
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