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Romanticism --- Spaniards --- History --- Paris (France)

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Zwei mächtige Anregungen der Frühromantik hat Ri-chard Wagner in seinen theoretischen Schriften und in seiner musikalischen Technik de facto nicht nur aufge-griffen, sondern wirklich verarbeitet: die Idee einer ‚Neuen Mythologie’ und die kompositorische Verfah-rensweise der ‚totalen Durchführung’. Manfred Frank, einer der besten Kenner der frühromantischen Literatur und Philosophie und einer der gebildetsten unter den kritischen Liebhabern des Komponisten, geht ihnen in Wagners Werken nach.

Romanticism in music. --- Wagner, Richard,

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More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical contexts. The essays consider its metrical, formal, and linguistic features; its relation to history; its influence on other genres; its reflections of empire and nationalism, both within and outside the British Isles; and the various implications of oral transmission and the rapid expansion of print culture and mass readership. Attention is given to the work of less well-known or recently rediscovered authors, alongside the achievements of some of the greatest poets in the English language: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Scott, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Clare.

English poetry --- Romanticism --- History and criticism

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Authors, English --- Critics --- Romanticism --- Hazlitt, William,

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'What is not 'Life' that really is?' asked Coleridge, struggling, like many poets, philosophers, and scientists of Europe's Romantic age, to formulate a theory of life that explained the mysterious relation between dead material bodies and living, animate beings. Romantic intellectuals found a key to this mystery surprisingly close at hand: the process by which dead matter could come to life must be something like the process of reading. 'The Revivifying Word' examines the reanimating acts of reading that became a central focus of attention for Romantic writers. German theorists, building on the Apostle Paul's assertion that the dead letter can be revivified by the living spirit, proposed a permeable, legible boundary between the living and the dead. This inaugurated a revolution in European aesthetics, implanting the germ of an extraordinarily productive narrative idea that enriched Romantic literature for decades. Poets and novelists created a large cast of characters who crossed the boundary between death and life with the help of some form of reading: figures like Keats's Glaucus, Kleist's Elizabeth Kohlhaas, Shelley's Frankenstein (and the monster he creates), Maturin's Melmoth, Poe's Madeline Usher, and Gautier's Spirite. Clayton Koelb demonstrates that such fictions offer a nuanced consideration of the most urgent question facing any theory of life: how do material bodies come to acquire, to lose, and then perhaps to regain the immaterial intellectual/spiritual quality that defines animate beings? Clayton Koelb is Guy B. Johnson Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Literature --- Romanticism. --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Literature History and criticism --- Animate Beings. --- European Romanticism. --- Literature and Philosophy. --- Reading. --- Romantic Literature. --- Theory of Life.