The Romantic Irony of Semiotics

The Romantic Irony of Semiotics
Author: Marike Finlay
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2011-05-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110872900

The Romantic Irony of Semiotics: Friedrich Schlegel and the Crisis of Representation (Approaches to Semiotics [As]).

Musical Representations, Subjects, and Objects

Musical Representations, Subjects, and Objects
Author: Jairo Moreno
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2004-12-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780253111197

Jairo Moreno adapts the methodologies and nomenclature of Foucault's "archaeology of knowledge" and applies it through individual case studies to the theoretical writings of Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber. His conclusion summarizes the conditions -- musical, philosophical, and historical -- that "make a certain form of thought about music necessary and possible at the time it emerges." Musical Meaning and Interpretation -- Robert S. Hatten, editor

Divine Madness

Divine Madness
Author: Lars Elleström
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780838754917

This book provides a theory that enables the concept of irony to be transferred from the literary to the visual and aural domains. Topics include the historical roots of the concept of irony as modes of oral and literary expression, and how irony relates to spatiality.

Modeling Irony

Modeling Irony
Author: Inés Lozano-Palacio
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2022-02-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027258147

This book adopts a broad cognitive-pragmatic perspective on irony which sees ironic meaning as the result of complex inferential activity arising from conflicting conceptual scenarios. This view of irony is the basis for an analytically productive integrative account capable of bridging gaps among disciplines and of recontextualizing and solving some controversies. Among the topics covered in its pages, readers will find an overview of previous linguistic and non-linguistic approaches. They will also find definitional and taxonomic criteria, an exhaustive exploration of the elements of the ironic act, and a study of their complex forms of interaction. The book also explores the relationship between irony, banter and sarcasm, and it studies how irony interacts with other figurative uses of language. Finally, the book spells out the conditions for “felicitous” irony and re-interprets traditional ironic types (e.g., Socratic, rhetoric, satiric, etc.), in the light of the unified approach it proposes.

Roman Constructions

Roman Constructions
Author: Don Fowler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2000-01-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198153090

Twelve papers, some previously unpublished, concerned with Latin literature and literary theory are collected here. Abandoning unrealistic objectivity, they all advocate a 'postmodern' approach to critical theory.

Modern Critical Theory and Classical Literature

Modern Critical Theory and Classical Literature
Author: J.P. Sullivan
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004329269

In recent decades the study of literature in Europe and the Americas has been profoundly influenced by modern critical theory in its various forms, whether Structuralism or Deconstructionism, Hermeneutics, Reader-Response Theory or Rezeptionsästhetik, Semiotics or Narratology, Marxist, feminist, neo-historical, psychoanalytical or other perspectives. Whilst the value and validity of such approaches to literature is still a matter of some dispute, not least among classical scholars, they have had a substantial impact on the study both of classical literatures and of the mentalité of Greece and Rome. In an attempt to clarify issues in the debate, the eleven contributors to this volume were asked to produce a representative collection of essays to illustrate the applicability of some of the new approaches to Greek and Latin authors or literary forms and problems. The scope of the volume was deliberately limited to literary investigation, broadly construed, of Greek and Roman authors. Broader areas of the history and culture of the ancient world impinge in the essays, but are not their central focus. The volume also contains a separate bibliography, offering for the first time a complete bibliography of classical studies which incorporate modern critical theory.

On the Study of Greek Poetry

On the Study of Greek Poetry
Author: Friedrich Von Schlegel
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780791448298

Available for the first time in English, this study offers insights into the genesis of German Romanticism.

"Landscape Imagery, Politics, and Identity in a Divided Germany, 1968?989 "

Author: Catherine Wilkins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351561014

Landscape Imagery, Politics and Identity in a Divided Germany, 1968-1989 explores the communicative relationship between German landscape painting and the viewing public that developed in the wake of the student revolutions of the late 1960s. The book demonstrates that, contrary to some historical thinking, more similarities than differences characterized the sociopolitical concerns of East and West Germans during the late Cold War Era, and that it was these shared issues that were reflected in the revival of the Romantic painting genre. Catherine Wilkins focuses on recovering the agency of the individual artist and in revising historiography with sensitivity to narration 'from below.' Interdisciplinary in nature, art historians can benefit from the study's analysis of images and artists not widely known outside of Germany. Additionally, the consolidation of statistics and data regarding German postwar cultural policy are relevant for political and cultural historians. The author contributes to the ongoing multidisciplinary debates regarding Histoire Crois?(in arguing that a clear dichotomy between East Germany and West Germany did not exist but rather that the residents of both nations shared a concern over some of the same issues of the period) and memory studies (by using images as primary historical sources, able to be employed in the recovery of potentially 'subversive' memory and identity). Issues related to gender relations, environmentalism, and spiritual belief are addressed by Wilkins, with appeal for scholars working with those particular themes. Poststructuralist and literary theorists as well can find arguments supporting an alternative means of writing history through artworks and private memories.

Encyclopedia of German Literature

Encyclopedia of German Literature
Author: Matthias Konzett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1159
Release: 2015-05-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 113594122X

Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.