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Memory in German Romanticism treats memory as a core element in the production and reception of German art and literature of the Romantic era.
Sommario
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
Info autore
Christopher R. Clason is Professor Emeritus at Oakland University, with research interests in Medieval epic poetry (especially in Gottfried von Straßburg's Tristan und Isolde) and German Romantic prose, particularly in the novels of E.T.A. Hoffmann. He is past president of the International Tristan Society and the International Conference on Romanticism.
Joseph D. Rockelmann is Teaching Assistant Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with research interests in German Romanticism, Ludwig Tieck, and Ekphrasis studies. Publications include Ludwig Tieck's Skillful Study of the Mind (2018), and "The Sociohistorical and Gendered Implications of Gazing Tenderly in Ludwig Tieck’s Liebeszauber" (2021).
Christina M. Weiler is Teaching Assistant Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on German literature, culture, and philosophy of the long eighteenth century in a comparative and interdisciplinary framework, with a particular interest in metaphor, cognition, and environmental studies.
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Memory in German Romanticism treats memory as a core element in the production and reception of German art and literature of the Romantic era.
