Dante in Deutschland : An Itinerary of Romantic Myth
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| Title: | Dante in Deutschland : An Itinerary of Romantic Myth |
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| Description: | Around the turn of the nineteenth century, no task seemed more urgent to German Romantics than the creation of a new mythology. It would unite modern poets and grant them common ground, and bring philosophers and the Volk closer together. But what would a new mythology look like? Only one model sufficed, according to Friedrich Schlegel: Dante's Divine Comedy. Through reading and juxtaposing canonical and obscure texts, Dante in Deutschland shows how Dante's work shaped the development of German Romanticism; it argues, all the while, that the weight of Dante's influence induced a Romantic preoccupation with authority: Who was authorized to create a mythology? This question—traced across texts by Schelling, Novalis, and Goethe—begets a Neo-Romantic fixation with Dantean authority in the mythic ventures of Gerhart Hauptmann, Rudolf Borchardt, and Stefan George. Only in Thomas Mann's novels, DiMassa asserts, is the Romantics'Dantean project ultimately demythologized. |
| Authors: | Daniel DiMassa |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Mythology in literature, Romanticism--Germany, German literature--19th century--History and criticism |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
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