Representation and Its Discontents: The Critical Legacy of German Romanticism 0520076753, 9780520076761

Azade Seyhan provides a concise, elegantly argued introduction to the critical theory of German Romanticism and demonstr

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English Pages 187 [198] Year 1992

Table of contents :
Contents
1. Introduction: Representation and Its Discontents
2. From Transcendental Philosophy to Transcendental Poetry
3. Representation and History
4. Representation and Criticism
5. The Site of Instruction: Literary Tales
6. The Critical Legacy of German Romanticism
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Representation and Its Discontents

Representation and Its Discontents The Critical Legacy of German Romanticism

Azade Seyhan

University of California Press Berkeley / Los Angeles / Oxford

University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press Oxford, England Copyright© 1992 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Seyhan, Azade. Representation and its discontents: the critical legacy of German romanticism / Azade Seyhan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-520-07675-3 (alk. paper). ISBN 0-520-07676-r (pbk.: alk. paper) r. German literature-18th century-History and criticism. 2. German literature-19th centuryHistory and criticism. 3. Romanticism-Germany. 4. Criticism-Germany-History. I. Title. PT36r.S48 1992 91-31938 830.9'145---