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Hardcover, viii + 215 pages, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show mild handling wear. Published without a dust jacket. -- This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent - and hence legitimating - stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power. Manifest in eighteenth-century poetics above all in the disjunction between programmatic definitions of the epic and actual experiments with the genre, this ambivalence can also arise within a single epic over the course of its narrative. The present study thus traces how particular eighteenth-century epics explore an originary incompleteness of political power and its narrative legitimations. The first chapter sketches an overview of how eighteenth-century writers construct an imaginary epic genre that is assigned the task of performing the cultural work of legitimating political communities by narrating their allegedly unifying origins and borders. The subsequent chapters, however, explore how the practice of epic storytelling in works by Klopstock, Goethe, Wieland, and, in an epilogue, Brentano enact the disruptive potential of poetic language and narrative to question the legitimations of imaginary political origins and unities. -- Contents: Introduction: The Epic Imaginary in 18th-Century German Literature [The Imaginary; The Epic Imaginary and Literary History; Epic and Political Poetics]; 1. The Epic Genre and the Question of Legitimacy in Eighteenth-Century Poetics [Legitimations I: Gottsched; Legitimations II: Bodmer and Breitinger; Blankenburg 1774: The Theory of the Novel; Blankenburg's Literarische Zusätze zu Johann Georg Sulzers Allgemeiner Theorie der Schönen Künste (1796-1798): "Der neuere Held"; Merck: Epic Naiveté; Herder: "Genealogie älterer Meister"]; 2. The Epic Prosody of the Sublime Nation: Klopstock's Messias [The Mimesis of the Epic and Epic Mimesis: Klopstock's Theory of Hexameter as "Darstellung"; The High Priests of the Nation: Klopstock's Supplementary; Epic Community; Excursus: The Passions of Klopstock and Badiou]; 3. The Politics and Poetics of Epic World Citizenship in Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea [Figures of Character; The Laws of Epic Poetry]; 4. Wieland's Parodic Humanism [Wieland's Parodic Humanism: Oberon in Context (Part I); "Das Volk," Cosmopolitanism, and Sovereignty in Wieland's Political Essays; Irregularity in Wieland's Humanism: Oberon Beyond Parody]; Epilogue: Brentano's Romanzen vom Rosenkranz and the Romantic Epic [A.W. Schlegel's Anthropology of Poetry: Or, the Birth of Meter out of the Nature of Rhythm; Philological Legitimacy and the Invention of Romantic Epic; Romanzen vom Rosenkranz]; Bibliography; Index of Subjects & Names. Codice articolo 005382
This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent - and hence legitimating - stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power. Manifest in eighteenth-century poetics above all in the disjunction between programmatic definitions of the epic and actual experiments with the genre, this ambivalence can also arise within a single epic over the course of its narrative. The present study thus traces how particular eighteenth-century epics explore an originary incompleteness of political power and its narrative legitimations. The first chapter sketches an overview of how eighteenth-century writers construct an imaginary epic genre that is assigned the task of performing the cultural work of legitimating political communities by narrating their allegedly unifying origins and borders. The subsequent chapters, however, explore how the practice of epic storytelling in works by Klopstock, Goethe, Wieland, and, in an epilogue, Brentano enact the disruptive potential of poetic language and narrative to question the legitimations of imaginary political origins and unities.
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Charlton Payne, Plattform Weltregionen und Interaktionen, Universität Erfurt, Germany.
Titolo: The Epic Imaginary: Political Power and Its ...
Casa editrice: de Gruyter
Data di pubblicazione: 2012
Legatura: Hardcover
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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover, viii + 215 pages, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show mild handling wear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This is a compelling study of how 18th-century German literature used the epic genre to interrogate the foundations and legitimacy of political power. At the center of Payne's analysis is the concept of the "epic imaginary," which refers to the use of poetic and mythological narratives to fill the inherent gaps in political legitimacy, particularly where legal or institutional authority is incomplete or absent. Drawing from theorists such as Albrecht Koschorke, Cornelius Castoriadis, and Wolfgang Iser, Payne shows how literary texts serve as cultural technologies that create or challenge collective identities through their engagement with myth, fiction, and aesthetic forms. The book is structured around key figures and works: Gottsched's normative poetics; Klopstock's Messias, examined through its ambitious theory of hexameter and sublime national prosody; Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea, read as an epic of Enlightenment world citizenship; Wieland's Oberon, analyzed for its parodic humanism and cosmopolitan themes; and Brentano's Romanzen vom Rosenkranz, which illustrates Romantic reinventions of epic form. These works, Payne argues, oscillate between epic affirmation and subversion. For instance, Klopstock attempts to establish a spiritually infused national epic, while Goethe reimagines epic conventions to promote Enlightenment ideals of civic virtue and cosmopolitanism. Wieland, on the other hand, employs parody to critique the very premises of epic grandeur, and Brentano's Romantic experimentation signals a transition toward a more self-reflexive poetic form. The book also traces eighteenth-century debates on genre and legitimacy through figures such as Bodmer, Breitinger, Herder, Merck, and Blankenburg, showing how shifting theories of poetics reflect deeper anxieties about national identity, secularization, and the role of literature in public life. One of the book's most significant contributions lies in its interrogation of how epic literature relates to shifting conceptions of community - national, cosmopolitan, or universal. Payne is particularly interested in the genre's ambivalence: its simultaneous attraction to teleological coherence (supporting political authority) and its narrative openness (allowing for critique and resistance). The epic thus emerges not as a relic of classical antiquity, but as a dynamic instrument for negotiating the ideological tensions of the eighteenth century. In today's global context of fragmented identities and contested sovereignties, The Epic Imaginary resonates beyond its historical scope. It invites contemporary readers and scholars to consider how literature continues to function as a political act - not merely reflecting power, but constituting and challenging it through form and fiction. Payne's interdisciplinary approach, combining literary criticism, political theory, and historiography, makes this work especially relevant to those studying nationalism, the aesthetics of power, genre theory, the historiography of poetics, the semantics of myth and community, and the cultural foundations of political legitimacy. Codice articolo 011367
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