Memory in German Romanticism treats memory as a core element in the production and reception of German art and literature of the Romantic era. The contributors explore the artistic expression of memory under the categories of imagination, image, and reception. Romantic literary aesthetics raises the subjective imagination to a level of primary importance for the creation of art. It goes beyond challenging reason and objectivity, two leading intellectual faculties of eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and instead elevates subjective invention to form and sustain memory and imagination. Indeed, memory and imagination, both cognitive functions, seek to assemble the elements of one’s own experience, either directed toward the past (memory) or toward the future (imagination), coherently into a narrative. And like memories, images hold the potential to elicit charged emotional responses; those responses live on through time, becoming part of the spatial and temporal reception of the artist and their work. While imagination generates and images trigger and capture memories, reception creates a temporal-spatial context for art, organizing it and rendering it "memorable," both for good and for bad. Thus, through the categories of imagination, image, and reception, this volume explores the phenomenon of German Romantic memory from different perspectives and in new contexts.
Author(s): Christopher R. Clason, Joseph D. Rockelmann, Christina M. Weiler
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 275
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Memory in German Romanticism: Imagination, Image, Reception
I.1 Memory Studies—An Interdisciplinary Endeavor
I.2 Romanticism and Memory: Imagination, Image, Reception
I.2.1 Part I: Imagination
I.2.2 Part II: Image
I.2.3 Part III: Reception
Notes
Works Cited
Part I: Imagination
Chapter 1: Amnesia, Chaos, Trauma: Kleist’s Memory Games
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 2: Hoffmann’s “Sandmann,” Henri Bergson, and the Matter of Memory
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 3: Memory, Fact, and Fiction: Imaginative Biographical Representation in the Novels of E.T.A. Hoffmann
3.1 Memory and Imagination
3.2 Die Elixiere des Teufels : Autobiography and Confession
3.3 Die Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr : Life Writing and Textual Memory
3.4 Conclusion: Memory and Imagination, Liquids and Romantic (Auto)Biography
Notes
Works Cited
Part II: Image
Chapter 4: Memory and Self-Reflection in Sophie Tieck Bernhardi von Knorring’s Fairy Tale “Der Greis im Felsen” (1800)
4.1 Family Trauma and the Restoration of Harmony through Love and Memory
4.2 Visualization of Thoughts and Memories
4.3 Unruly Memories: Cognitive Loops and Elusive Recollections
4.4 Conclusion: Memory’s Healing Potential and the Satirized Male Genius
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 5: The Memorialization of the Aesthetic and the Aestheticization of Memory: Reading the Hermit in Novalis’ Heinrich von Ofterdingen
5.1 The Aesthetic as Ideology, Critique, and Performance
5.2 History as Aesthetic Experience
5.3 The Imposition of the Present
5.4 Singing the Lyric, Reading Inscription
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 6: The Effect of Memory Embellishments on Reality in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “Des Vetters Eckfenster”
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 7: Images for Memories: From Ekphrasis to Excess of Memory in German Romantic Literature
7.1 Introduction and Thesis
7.2 Positioning in Ekphrasis Scholarship
7.3 On the Dangers of (Self-)Reflection and Memory Loss
7.4 Loreley in Ekphrasis Studies
7.5 Turning from Above to Below with Heine
7.6 Eichendorff’s Latest Versions Compared with Earlier Versions by Brentano, Tieck, and Heine
7.7 Ekphrastic Conclusions
Notes
Works Cited
Part III: Reception
Chapter 8: The Failure of Social Memory to Validate the Icelandic Translation of “Der blonde Eckbert” (1835)
8.1 Tieck’s “Der blonde Eckbert” and Social Memory
8.2 Fjölnir
8.3 “Eggert Glói”
8.4 The First Reviews and Fjölnir’s Response
8.5 Fjölnir on the Defensive
8.6 Konráð Gíslason Steps Up
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 9: Urban Palimpsests and Contentious Memorials: Cultural Memory and Heinrich Heine
Notes
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Chapter 10: No Mass or Kaddish: The Forgotten Poet in Heinrich Heine’s Late Poetry
Notes
Works Cited
Index
