| The «Individualitaet» of August Von Platen: Subjectivity and Solipsism at the Close of the Kunstperiode Contributor(s): Dove, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 3820476806 ISBN-13: 9783820476804 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $74.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1983 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Dewey: 830.9 |
| LCCN: 88672172 |
| Series: Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie |
| Physical Information: 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Platen, in the critical imagination, is a classicistic formalist who hid his anguished life behind imitative art. This cliche - which originates in Heine's early caricature - has not been corrected because of a virtual absence of close analyses of the kind undertaken in this study. There is shown to be unsuspected continuity in experiments with lyric forms as different as Lied, ghasel, sonnet, ode, idyll and -Pindaric- hymn; Platen appears as a decidedly confessional, even histrionic, writer in the wake of Byron, and his subjectivity proves strong and unrepentant enough to be comparable to Heine's own." |