Göttsche, Dirk / Saul, Nicholas (Eds.): Realism and Romanticism in German Literature
Artikel-Nr.: 978-3-89528-995-8
When writers and critics such as Gustav Freytag, Julian Schmidt and Berthold Auerbach constituted the new literary movement called ‘Realism’ in response to the 1848 revolution and its defeat, ‘Romanticism’ acted as a critical foil for the new departure. This polemically motivated and historically-anchored terminology has survived in today’s orthodox view that ‘Realism’ and ‘Romanticism’ mark not just two distinct periods in literary history, but also two radically opposed concepts of literature. Combining theoretical approaches and overviews with a range of case studies, interdisciplinary investigations and comparative enquiries, this volume reassesses German Realism’s relationship with Romanticism and sheds new light on the multiple ways in which writers from Stifter and Keller to Raabe and Fontane remember Romanticism, engaging with its problems, themes, motifs and poetics. By re-examining the engagement with Romanticism in the literature and culture of Realism between c. 1840 and 1900, the book challenges existing concepts of periodisation and works towards a more differentiated understanding of the complex dynamics in the field of nineteenth-century ‘realisms’ and their role in the overarching intellectual trajectories from Romanticism to Modernism.
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Dirk Göttsche / Nicholas Saul (Eds.)
Realism and Romanticism in German Literature
Realismus und Romantik in der deutschsprachigen Literatur
2013
ISBN 978-3-89528-995-8
468 Seiten
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- Introduction
- 1. From Romanticism to Realism: Negations, Transitions, Transformations
- Rainer Hillenbrand
Realistische Romantik in Tiecks letzter Novelle Waldeinsamkeit
- Jesko Reiling
Die „poetischeren Momente der Erscheinungswelt“. Berhold Auerbachs Romantikrezeption
- Gert Vonhoff
Romantisches und der Prototyp des realistischen Erzählens. Gedanken zur Evolution der ‚Dorfgeschichte‘
- Benedict Schofield
“Die Willkür der alten Romantik”. The Romantic Legacy in Gustav Freytag’s Literary Works and Theory
- Magdolna Orosz
Verabschiedung und Fortsetzung der Romantik im Frühwerk von Theodor Storm. Eine intertextuelle Analyse der Novelle Immensee
- 2. Realism and Romanticism and the Two Cultures: Science, Literature and Modernity
- Martina King
Der romantische Arzt als Erzähler. Medizinisches Wissen in Stifters Die Mappe meines Urgroßvaters (1868)
- Christiane Arndt
Fieberkrank – Realistisches Erzählen als romantische Ansteckung bei Raabe und Storm
- 3. Romanticism in Realism I: Uncanny Returns
- Christian Begemann
Gespenster des Realismus. Poetologie – Epistemologie – Psychologie in Fontanes Unterm Birnbaum
- Philip Ajouri
Vom unerklärbaren Übernatürlichen zur unerklärten Natur. Gottfried Kellers Die Geisterseher und sein romantischer Prätext, E.T.A. Hoffmanns Ein Fragment aus dem Leben dreier Freunde
- Nicholas Saul
“Unsere tägliche Selbsttäuschung gib uns heute!” Spiritualism and the Presence of Romantic Poetics in Raabe’s Vom alten Proteus (1875)
- Martina Süess
„Solange der Götze gilt“. Romantische Reminiszenzen in Fontanes Effi Briest
- 4. Romanticism in Realism II: Memory, Art, History
- Dirk Göttsche
The Place of Romanticism in the Literary Memory of the Anti-Napoleonic Wars (1848-1914). Roquette, Raabe and Jensen
- Martin Swales
The Need to Believe and the Impossibility of Belief. Romantic and Realistic Strategies in Gottfried Keller’s Der grüne Heinrich
- Ralf Simon
Geschichtsverlauf und Subjektgenese. Zu einem Deutungsmuster romantischer Geschichtsphilosophie und der realistischen Korrektur bei Raabe (Im Siegeskranze, Horacker)
- 5. Romanticism, Realism, and Beyond
- Russell A. Berman The Integrity of Fiction in the Age of Realism: Theodor Storm
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Dirk Göttsche is Professor of German at the University of Nottingham.
Nicholas Saul is Professor of German at the University of Durham.
Leseprobe: 9783895289958.pdf
This stout volume [...] treats a central issue of German nineteenth-century literature: the presence of Romanticism in Realism, a movement itself contemporary with, sharing in, overlapping with, eliding into, the general critique of Romanticism that began with the Young Germans, took off with the Young Hegelians, and became a kind of doctrine with the Programmatic Realists. [...] This collection covers a wide range of authors and expands the ‘canon’ of those writers considered to be serious representatives of Realism. One notes all the same that Ebner-Eschenbach, Liliencron, and Saar are missing altogether, and Gotthelf, Sealsfield, and Spielhagen are merely touched on. It is also a collection about nineteenth-century German prose and moves within those terms of reference. Would the inclusion of lyrical poetry or even verse narrative have challenged its findings? It is worth thinking about.
Roger Paulin in „Modern Language Review“ (Vol. 109, Part 4, October 2014)
[...] This collection covers a wide range of authors and expands the ‘canon’ of those writers considered to be serious representatives of Realism. [...] It is also a collection about nineteenth-century German prose and moves within those terms of reference. [...]
Roger Paulin in „Modern Language Review“ (October 2014)
[...] Even as most of the essays are written by and mostly for Germanisten, this collection has much to offer for comparatists and historians as well, and not only because some authors do broaden the picture in a European context. For the comparatist, because this volume of essays may serve as a rewarding corrective to a rather simplistic view of German realism in the nineteenth century that may still persist today. And for the historian, because so many essays here anchor their literary analyses admirably against the background of cultural history. The essays collected in „Realism and Romanticism in German Literature“, each one meticulously researched, accomplish much more than substantiate the rich interest of poetic realism in the German nineteenth century; it is a potential treasure trove for any reader interested in the complicated literary as well as cultural history of the German nineteenth century.
Helmut Illbruck in „German Studies Review“ (February 2015)