Matthias Claudius: Language As "Infamous Funnel" and Its Imperatives - Hardcover

Rowland, Herbert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0838636861 ISBN 13: 9780838636862

Publisher: UNKNO, 1997

Synopsis

This work contributes to the current revision of Claudius's a image by illuminating the complex of ideas that lies at the core of his thought and relating it to his art and other central concerns. The volume reveals that Claudius was more than the native poet of family, nature, and faith familiar from literary history.

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Review

Matthias Claudius contributes to the current revision of his image by illuminating the complex ideas that are at the core of his thought and relating them to his art and the broader concerns that were most important to him. Claudius has long had a firm place in the cannon of German literature as a naive and soulful poet of folklife, nature, and religious faith. Over the past two decades, however, a growing body of scholarship has uncovered aspects of his life and work that demand reconsideration of hist traditional image. Matthias Claudius represents a successful contribution to that revision. Matthias Claudius elucidates the ideas central to his thought and views them in connection with not only his work, but also the important issues of his time. Over and against the traditional image of Claudius, this study projects a more accurate and balanced, indeed, a substantially new vision of the poem and the man. Matthias Claudius is a benchmark publication of impeccable, painstaking, and articulate scholarship. -- Midwest Book Review

Edition details

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0838636861
• ISBN 13: 9780838636862
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 335