The Damnation of Newton, Goethes's Color Theory and Romantic Perception

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List of contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prelude in the Academy -- I. Goethe's Farbenlehre: The Newtonian Controversy -- II. Goethe's Entoptische Farben: The Problem of Polarity -- III. Goethe's Homunculus: The Mediation of Light -- IV. Novalis: Transcendental Physics and the Sidereal Man -- V. Achim von Arnim: The Galvanic Eye -- VI. Wordsworth: An Auxiliar Light -- VIII. Coleridge and Jean Paul: The Look of Limbo -- VIII. Coleridge and Schlegel: The Glittering Eye -- IX. Shelley: The "Traces" of Faust -- Bibliography -- Index -- 309-310

About the author

Frederick Burwick, Professor Emeritus at UCLA, has taught courses on Romantic drama and directed student performances of a dozen plays.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Burwick
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1986
• EAN: 9783110107654
• ISBN: 978-3-11-010765-4
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 25 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 606 g
• Series: Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprachgeschichte und Kulturgeschichte der germanischen Völker, NF; Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprachgeschichte und Kulturgeschichte der germanischen Völker, NF; Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte der germanischen Völker. N.F.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics