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Idioms Of Uncertainty: Goethe And The Essay
by Peter J. Burgard (Author),
Penn State University Press (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
Goethe's essays have been culled for their literary, aesthetic, and scientific
content, by the textuality and their location at the nexus of genre and literary
history have not received the critical attention they deserve. In Idioms of
Uncertainty, Peter Burgard analyzes the rhetorical strategies, structure, and
style of pivotal essays and relates them to the essay traditions as represented
by Montaigne and Johnson. By formulating the critique of systematic philosophy
inherent in the essays and by investigating their participation in the principal
aesthetic dialogue of the age--the Laocoon debate, which spanned nearly half a
century--Burgard situates them in the context of eighteenth-century critical
discourse.
Furthermore, by disclosing the connection
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9780271008455
Language English
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher Penn State University Press
Publishing Date 1992-12
Total Pages 216