| Science, Satire and Wit: The Essays of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Contributor(s): Brown, Peter D. G. (Editor), Büchler, Ralph W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820413674 ISBN-13: 9780820413679 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $65.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 838.609 |
| LCCN: 90-36002 |
| Series: Studies in Modern German Literature |
| Physical Information: 311 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book attempts a critical assessment of the eighteenth-century German essay utilizing the journal essays of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg as a paradigm. It places a socio-historical and genre-theoretical analysis of the eighteenth-century German essay across a close reading of Lichtenberg's essays. The study demonstrates that Lichtenberg's essays operate as critical communication for purposes of instruction and satire. What is more, such critical communication alternates with a critique of enlightenment itself. Finally, the methodology of Lichtenberg's essays is shown to be instrumental in developing imaginative and freely-associative literary strategies. |