| Micro-Harmony: The Growth and Uses of the Idyllic Model in Literature Contributor(s): Nemoianu, Virgil (Author) |
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ISBN: 3261021586 ISBN-13: 9783261021588 Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P OUR PRICE: $49.35 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1977 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines - Literary Criticism | European - German - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 809.914 |
| LCCN: 78305283 |
| Series: Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie |
| Physical Information: 152 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The idyllic model is defined (in opposition to pastoral) as an extended topos or model of the physical and social universe, descended from an older world-view, but also offering a stylized image of part of the social reality of the 18th century and early 19th century. It is an attempt to suggest a state of mankind as a humanistic response to the natural state, and proves relevant to socio-historical developments during a century and a half. The usefulness of the idyllic model reaches a peak in the later part of the 18th century; major difficulties arise when writers try to endow it with a universal validity and to establish working relationship between the idyll and energy. The Romantic rejection of the idyll results in a playful, ironic usage. By 1850 a didactic-ideological usage of the model emerges, that can still be traced in politics and philosophy. |
