Illusion and the Drama: Critical Theory of the Enlightenment and Romantic EraPennsylvania State University Press, 1991 - 326 páginas Burwick examines the debate over illusion from Johnson to Coleridge in England, Diderot to Stendhal in France, and Lessing to A. W. Schlegel in Germany. Although few critics still define illusion in contrast to reality, the essential distinction is between illusion as perceived reality and as hallucination or delusion. The concept of illusion as debated in contemporary critical theory has been shaped by developments that took place during the transition from Enlightenment to Romantic thought. Burwick provides a commentary on illusion in contemporary criticism, emphasizing the ways in which such critics as Husserl and Heidegger, Gadamer and Gombrich, Derrida, and Adorno have dealt with the subjective dimensions of aesthetic response. He describes two extreme positions that were asserted in the eighteenth century, the "perfect illusion" in which the work of art is perceived as reality and the insistence on a skeptical distance. He deals with various arguments that locate the source of illusion in the acting, in the audience, in the play, in the imagination, and in the staging effects. Burwick devotes a chapter to two of the foremost Romantic critics of the drama Samuel Taylor Coleridge and August Wilhelm Schlegel. After clarifying the prominent issues discussed by their contemporaries and immediate predecessors, he shows the radical differences between the criticism of Schlegel and Coleridge, thus dispelling the charge that Coleridge's lectures on Shakespeare are marred by plagiarism of Schlegel's ideas. |
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... Nicolai , Mendelssohn , and Lessing attempted to define the prov- ince of tragedy in relation to reason and emotion . " The correspondence was prompted by Nicolai's Discourse on Tragedy ( Abhandlung vom Trauer- spiele ) , which had been ...
... Nicolai and Lessing . In fact , Mendelssohn was in perfect accord with Nicolai and utterly at odds with Lessing . Nicolai , with Mendelssohn , had no difficulty in acknowledging that moral improvement was possible through the subsequent ...
... Nicolai tried to draw up a ledger of their agreement and disagreement . Nicolai's ledger reveals , more strikingly than the individual letters , how much the disagreement had derived from the inability of Nicolai and Mendelssohn to ...
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Rousseau Johnson and Stendhal | 19 |
Diderot Tieck and Lamb | 41 |
Lessing Mendelssohn and Schiller | 81 |
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