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The Art of Recollection in Jena Romanticism: Memory, History, Fiction, and Fragmentation in Texts by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis

The Art of Recollection in Jena Romanticism: Memory, History, Fiction, and Fragmentation in Texts by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis

Johnson, Laurie Ruth

Hardcover

Series: Studien Zur Deutschen Literatur, Book 164

Literary CriticismGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 3484181648
ISBN13: 9783484181649
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Dec 3 2002
Pages: 204
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This study examines the ways in which memory is understood and aestheticized in Romantic texts, and argues that these works reveal serious doubt about the explanatory ability of the philosophical, psychological and aesthetic discourses against which modern thought is constructed.

The Jena Romantics represent the experience and presentation of memory as privileged and creative, but also as not always capable of giving reliable information about the actual past. But rather than depicting signifiers with no stable referents, their portrayal of memory and remembering as creative displays a belief that meaning is accessible through its representations. This belief results in an emphasis on originality over imitation, but also blurs distinctions between memory and historiography. The form of the fragment embodies the dilemmas and possibilities that the Romantics associate with memory.

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