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Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde and the Fragments

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Description for Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde and the Fragments Paperback. Translator(s): Firchow, Peter. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.

Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde and the Fragments was first published in 1971. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

For the last century and a half, Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) has enjoyed a reputation for being the critical grey eminence behind the coming to power of the Romantic Movement. It was Schlegel, in his three series of aphoristic fragments (Lyceum, Athenaeum, and Ideas), who actually first defined and employed the word "romantic" in the present sense; and it was he who in a chaotic, ... Read more

Both the Fragments and Lucinde,along with a brilliant tour de force, the "Essay on Incomprehensibility," are available now for the first time in a complete English translation in this volume, together with a brief scholarly introduction. This translation will enable non-German readers to examine at first hand the work of a man whom Rene Wellck has called "one of the greatest critics of history." At a time when the function of criticism is coming once again under close skeptical scrutiny, Friedrich Schlegel's unorthodox, unsystematic but seminal critical mind—all of literature, philosophy, art, and history were grist to his mill—should find many sympathetic readers. The book will be of particular interest to theorists of literature and fiction, comparative literature scholars, and historians of the intellectual history of Germany, and it is appropriate for course use in German and comparative literature classes.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1971
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816657667
SKU
V9780816657667
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About
Peter Firchow is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Minnesota.

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