| Apologien der Lust Contributor(s): Fröhlich, Harry (Author) |
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ISBN: 3484321253 ISBN-13: 9783484321250 Publisher: de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $151.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: German Published: September 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - Language Arts & Disciplines - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| LCCN: 2006374280 |
| Series: Untersuchungen Zur Deutschen Literaturgeschichte |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.70 lbs) 245 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Instead of appealing to theory-formation and abstract classification, this study consciously uses close text analysis to examine secular German baroque poetry from a specifically problem-oriented viewpoint. Sensuality as a problem: the literature of antiquity agonized over the impact of eros in a way that was hardly any less soul-searching than that of later Christianity. Authors like Opitz, Fleming, Zesen, Stieler, and above all Hoffmannswaldau take their bearings from this tradition, essaying in their erotic texts a discourse on sensuality that goes beyond the musa iocosa to adumbrate positions represented in the early Enlightenment. |