Author: Bennett, Benjamin
Title: Beyond Theory: Eighteenth-Century German Literature and the Poetics of Irony
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1993). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiii, 354 pp. Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contents: The New & the Original Eighteenth Century; The New Holy Scripture of Humanity: The Reader of the Novel & the Mission of the Genre in 'Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre'; Hölderin's "An die Parzen": Poetry as a Game in Society; Lessing's 'Laokoon': The Poetics of Experience; Ironic Conversation & the Communal Soul: Goethe on and in Language; Instability & Irony; The Real Eighteenth Century; The Genres of Mind & Contact: The Theater, the Novel & the Jews; Conclusion: The Use & Abuse of the Eighteenth Century.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, German Literature, Eighteenth Century, Irony, J.W. Goethe, G.E. Lessing, Friedrich Holderin, Critical Theory, Poetics