| Ludwig Tieck: A Literary Biography Revised Edition Contributor(s): Paulin, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198158521 ISBN-13: 9780198158523 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $58.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1987 Annotation: Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) was a major figure in German cultural life, a poet, playwright, and novelist who was also an influential art and theater critic, the editor of Kleist and Novalis, and the prime force behind the famous Schegel-Tieck translation of Shakespeare. His was a long and prolific career, which began in the last decades of Frederick the Great's reign, and ended in the aftermath of the 1848 Revolution, and his varied literary output reflected the progress and the shifting emphasis of the Romantic movement. In this biography, Roger Paulin attempts to capture, through the study of the work of this remarkable man, the climate of Romanticism, tracing its progress from a movement of aesthetic protest to one of national awareness. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 86021835 |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 5.7" W x 8.12" (1.30 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
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| Publisher Description: Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) was a major figure in German cultural life, a poet, playwright, and novelist who was also an influential art and theater critic, the editor of Kleist and Novalis, and the prime force behind the famous Schegel-Tieck translation of Shakespeare. His was a long and prolific career, which began in the last decades of Frederick the Great's reign, and ended in the aftermath of the 1848 Revolution, and his varied literary output reflected the progress and the shifting emphasis of the Romantic movement. In this biography, Roger Paulin attempts to capture, through the study of the work of this remarkable man, the climate of Romanticism, tracing its progress from a movement of aesthetic protest to one of national awareness. |