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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"German Romanticism"”.
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Duality and Reconciliation: Kleist, Hoffmann and German Romanticism
… authors living and working during the time of German Romanticism, have long since distinguished themselves as contributors to the cultural atmosphere of Europe at the time and as individual, dynamic artists in their own right. In this thesis, I will offer an exploration of four novellas by …
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Duality and Reconciliation: Kleist, Hoffmann and German Romanticism
… authors living and working during the time of German Romanticism, have long since distinguished themselves as contributors to the cultural atmosphere of Europe at the time and as individual, dynamic artists in their own right. In this thesis, I will offer an exploration of four novellas by …
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The Organic Imagination and Louis Kahn
… the relationship between architecture, Romanticism, American Transcendentalism, myth, and religious mysticism in the ideas of the American architect, Louis Kahn. Part One builds a chronology from Hermeticism and Jewish mysticisms into German Romanticism and how they played a role in the …
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An interpretation of Thoreau's philosophy
… based on the understanding of its forerunner - German Romanticism. Hence a brief consideration of the chief exponents of German Romanticism - Kant, the Schlegels, Navalis, Schleiermacher, Fichte, Jacobi - has been made in Chapter Two. Following this is a discussion showing the relation of bits …
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The fate of universal history: on the task of philosophy of history between Kant and Benjamin
… that descends from Immanuel Kant through Early German Romanticism to Walter Benjamin. I show that the division between the idealist and the materialist interpretations of universal history results from their methodologically distinct treatments of the problem of historical violence. Where …
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Mimesis, Widerstand, Subversion : Bettina von Arnims Briefroman Die Günderode als Ansatz diskursiver Entgrenzung
… Günderode was written during the period of early German romanticism. The novel consists of an exchange of letters between the literary figure Bettine and an opposite, Gunderode. This exchange takes place in the light of the philosophical discourse of German idealism, mainly represented by Johann …
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Synthesis of Style in Gabriel Faure's Preludes for Piano
… his conscious rejection of the influences of German romanticism he was instrumental in the recovery of artis tic standards which are thought of as typically French— logic, clar ity, moderation, balance— qualities which link Faure to a long line of French classical tradition. His stature in …
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Friedrich Schlegel and the Romantic Iconic Turn
… image and the Byzantine iconic tradition in German Romanticism. Tracing the contours and political implications of a Romantic iconic turn in the aesthetics of Friedrich Schlegel and the painting of Caspar David Friedrich, my dissertation concentrates on a countermovement within the German …
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The French-language Reception of Grimms’ ‘Rotkappchen’ 1868-1948
… and especially during periods of Franco-German conflict? This is the pivotal question addressed in the four chapters of this thesis. The first chapter focuses on the theoretical. It situates the Grimm Brothers and their influences within the context of German Romanticism and a complex …
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The Nature of Influence: Fu'ad Rifqa's Wilderness Poetry at the Intersection of Nation and Modernity
… the evolution of form and content from both Arab Romanticism and Modernism as well as his extensive engagement with German Romantic and post-Romantic poets Friedrich Hölderlin and Rainer Maria Rilke. </p> <p>This dissertation examines the interplay between influence and innovation throughout …
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Literatur und Emanzipation von Frauen in der Frühromantik : Bettine von Arnim und Karoline von Günderrode
Early German Romanticism is a period associated in literary analysis with the emancipation of women. Two women writers of the time. Bettine von Arnim and Karoline von Günderrode take up the Romantic view of literature as an emancipating medium. The thesis refers to Romanticism to define the …
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The Religious Paintings of Emil Nolde, 1909-1912
… significance of Emil Nolde among the artists in Germany now loosely called Expressionists. From 1909 until his death in 1956, he painted over fifty pictures with religious subjects. Arguably, they represent the premier accomplishment of a long and prodigious career, one rich in a variety of …
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The imagery of time and season in the German Baroque and Romantic poetry
<p>Historians of German literature generally agree that the decisive turning point in the reappraisal of German Baroque literature was largely due to Heinrich Wölfflin’s seminal study <i>Renaissance und Barock: Eine Untersuchung über Wesen und Entstehung des Barockstils in ltalien</i> (1888). This …
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Svenska Pommern : kulturmöten och identifikation 1720–1815
… It was both a part of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation and the Swedish realm. The port town of Stralsund played a key roll in the Swedish economy at the Baltic Sea, whereas the university town of Greifswald was the intellectual centre. On a cultural level, this situation opened up for a …