Culture and identity : historicity in German literature and thought 1770-1815 /

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Author / Creator:	Oergel, Maike, 1964-
Imprint:	Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2006.
Description:	viii, 300 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Literature and history -- Germany. Collective memory -- Germany -- History -- 18th century. Collective memory -- Germany -- History -- 19th century. Civilization. Collective memory. German literature. Literature and history. Germany -- Civilization -- 18th century. Germany -- Civilization -- 19th century. Germany. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6161763

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ISBN:	311018933X (alk. paper) 9783110189339
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-297) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : historicity, modernity and the Germans : the historical dialectic and new concepts of culture, consciousness and identity
Ch. 1. Historicity and the definition of modern culture : the German Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes and the new concepts of literature
Ch. 2. The historicity of modern knowledge and consciousness : German idealism
Ch. 3. Historicity, modernity and German identity : Stammvolk Europas and modern Kulturnation
Ch. 4. Grasping the historical dialectic of the modern German existence : Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
Ch. 5. Historicity as identity : the German myth of modernity in Goethe's Faust I
Conclusion : the new universality and the Germanic Kulturnation.

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