Body dialectics in the age of Goethe.PT9 2003-509295 90-420-1076-2 Body dialectics in the age of Goethe. Title main entry. Ed. by Marianne Henn and Holger A. Pausch. (Amsterdamer Beitrage zur neueren Germanistik; Bd.55) Editions Rodopi, [c]2003 437 p. $189.00 Scholars of literature and language, most specializing in German, examine portrayals of the human body in German literature of the middle 18th to the middle 19th centuries. Their topics include sculptured soldiers and the beauty of discipline, designing the self with fashion, the representations and portrayals of Henriette Herz Henriette Herz (September 5, 1764 - October 22, 1847) was a close friend of Dorothea Mendelssohn, daughter of the famous Jewish thinker Moses Mendelssohn. Born Henriette De Lemos, she was the daughter of a physician, descended from a Portuguese Jewish family of Hamburg. as Beautiful Jewess, reproductive machines in E. T. A. Hoffmann Noun 1. E. T. A. Hoffmann - German writer of fantastic tales (1776-1822) Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, Hoffmann , Winckelmann's impact of drama prior to Goethe's Iphigenie, self and other in Sturm und Drang Sturm und Drang (sht  rm nt dräng) or Storm and Stress, drama, Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften and the
problem of feminine orality orality /oral·i·ty/ (or-al´it-e) the psychic organization of all the sensations, impulses, and personality traits derived from the oral stage of psychosexual development. o·ral·i·ty n. , and bodily grace and consciousness from the Enlightenment to Romanticism romanticism, term loosely applied to literary and artistic movements of the late 18th and 19th cent. Characteristics of Romanticism Resulting in part from the libertarian and egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution, the romantic movements had . Eight of the 19 essays are in German. There is no index. |
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