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4. Wieland’s Parodic Humanism
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Acknowledgments v
- Table of Contents vii
- Introduction: The Epic Imaginary in Eighteenth-Century German Literature 1
- 1. The Epic Genre and the Question of Legitimacy in Eighteenth-Century Poetics 19
- 2. The Epic Prosody of the Sublime Nation: Klopstock’s Messias 46
- Excursus: The Passions of Klopstock and Badiou 80
- 3. The Politics and Poetics of Epic World Citizenship in Goethe’s Hermann und Dorothea. 86
- 4. Wieland’s Parodic Humanism 117
- Epilogue: Brentano’s Romanzen vom Rosenkranz and the Romantic Epic 152
- Bibliography 197
- Index of Subjects 209
- Index of Names 214
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Acknowledgments v
- Table of Contents vii
- Introduction: The Epic Imaginary in Eighteenth-Century German Literature 1
- 1. The Epic Genre and the Question of Legitimacy in Eighteenth-Century Poetics 19
- 2. The Epic Prosody of the Sublime Nation: Klopstock’s Messias 46
- Excursus: The Passions of Klopstock and Badiou 80
- 3. The Politics and Poetics of Epic World Citizenship in Goethe’s Hermann und Dorothea. 86
- 4. Wieland’s Parodic Humanism 117
- Epilogue: Brentano’s Romanzen vom Rosenkranz and the Romantic Epic 152
- Bibliography 197
- Index of Subjects 209
- Index of Names 214