Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewA frank and candid glimpse into the early life of the maturing poet. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bruce Donehower , Bruce Donehower , Novalis , Friedrich von HardenbergPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9780791469705ISBN 10: 0791469700 Pages: 166 Publication Date: 02 July 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Introduction ""Reading"" Novalis The Meeting with Sophie von Kuhn The Journal of 1797 and Selected Letters Selected Letters and Documents: 1792-1797 Journal: April 18-July 6, 1797 Autobiographical and Biographical Testimonies Friedrich von Hardenberg: Excerpt from a Letter to Finance Minister von Oppel, 1800 Karl von Hardenberg: Biography of His Brother Novalis, 1802 August Colestin Just: Friedrich von Hardenberg, Assessor of Salt Mines in Saxony and Designated Department Director in Thuringia, 1805 Ludwig Tieck: ""Biography of Novalis,"" 1815 Timeline of Events Notes Select Bibliography Index"Reviews"""The Birth of Novalis ... the title of which recalls the outworn image, actually dismantles the Novalis legend. This invaluable biographical collection concentrates on the engagement to Sophie von Kuhn, from the poet's meeting with the twelve-year-old to her excruciating death at just fifteen. ... The diaries are filled with references to social events, to conversations, meals, walks, and so on. There are also some fairly frank notes on his sexual activity, what Novalis calls 'the satisfaction of my fantastical desires.'"" - The Times Literary Supplement ""This book offers, for the very first time, a reliable and lucid translation into English of the most important primary sources pertaining to the biography of the German Romantic poet-philosopher Novalis. Here we glimpse the inner workings of a now legendary event: the transformation of the mining student Friedrich von Hardenberg into the romantic poet Novalis. The idea to gather letters and supporting biographical material from precisely this period and unite them into a single volume is both a masterly and welcome enterprise. It finally allows an English-speaking audience direct access to one of the most fascinating and enduring love relationships in literary history-that of Sophie von Kuhn and Friedrich von Hardenberg. Donehower's insightful introduction and thoroughly readable commentary interspersed between the letters does a great deal to separate the fact from the fiction and myth in Hardenberg's biography."" - David W. Wood, University of Paris IV, Sorbonne ""Making this material available in English is a great service and long overdue. It offers the materials to contextualize Novalis' other writings, showing how his work responds to his particular biographical context (unavoidable, given the strong mythmaking surrounding Novalis' personal losses and their fictionalizations)."" - Katherine Arens, author of Empire in Decline: Fritz Mauthner's Critique of Wilhelminian Germany" The Birth of Novalis ... the title of which recalls the outworn image, actually dismantles the Novalis legend. This invaluable biographical collection concentrates on the engagement to Sophie von Kuhn, from the poet's meeting with the twelve-year-old to her excruciating death at just fifteen. ... The diaries are filled with references to social events, to conversations, meals, walks, and so on. There are also some fairly frank notes on his sexual activity, what Novalis calls 'the satisfaction of my fantastical desires.' - The Times Literary Supplement This book offers, for the very first time, a reliable and lucid translation into English of the most important primary sources pertaining to the biography of the German Romantic poet-philosopher Novalis. Here we glimpse the inner workings of a now legendary event: the transformation of the mining student Friedrich von Hardenberg into the romantic poet Novalis. The idea to gather letters and supporting biographical material from precisely this period and unite them into a single volume is both a masterly and welcome enterprise. It finally allows an English-speaking audience direct access to one of the most fascinating and enduring love relationships in literary history-that of Sophie von Kuhn and Friedrich von Hardenberg. Donehower's insightful introduction and thoroughly readable commentary interspersed between the letters does a great deal to separate the fact from the fiction and myth in Hardenberg's biography. - David W. Wood, University of Paris IV, Sorbonne Making this material available in English is a great service and long overdue. It offers the materials to contextualize Novalis' other writings, showing how his work responds to his particular biographical context (unavoidable, given the strong mythmaking surrounding Novalis' personal losses and their fictionalizations). - Katherine Arens, author of Empire in Decline: Fritz Mauthner's Critique of Wilhelminian Germany Author InformationBruce Donehower is Lecturer in the University Writing Program at the University of California at Davis. He is the author of Miko, Little Hunter of the North. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
