Memory in German romanticism : imagination, image, reception

Author(s)

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

Bibliographic Information

Memory in German romanticism : imagination, image, reception

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

（Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature）

Routledge, 2023

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 one's 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.

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: Kleist's Memory Games Steven R. Huff 2 Hoffmann's "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 Knorring's 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. Hoffmann's "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 Heine's Late Poetry Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo

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Details

• NCID: BD05474584
• ISBN:
  • 9781032319841
• LCCN: 2022042025
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 263 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PT363.M38
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Memory in literature
  • LCSH : German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Romanticism -- Germany
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA91721632