The exploration focuses on the dynamic evolution of British drama between the 1790s and 1830s, highlighting the significant role of the industrial provinces as a backdrop for these changes. Frederick Burwick delves into how regional influences shaped theatrical practices and contributed to the broader cultural landscape of the time, emphasizing the interplay between industrialization and the dramatic arts.
This comprehensive survey explores Samuel Taylor Coleridge's diverse contributions as a poet, literary critic, philosopher, and commentator on religion and politics. Featuring 37 original essays by an international team of experts, the book offers advanced scholarship that delves into the various aspects of Coleridge's work, highlighting his influence and significance across multiple disciplines.
The exploration of temporal modalities in Romantic Theatre reveals significant shifts driven by both internal and external factors. Playwrights broke free from the constraints of "Unity of Time," while societal changes due to the industrial revolution intensified the importance of time in daily life. This monograph highlights how Romantic theatre mirrored these changes, emphasizing time's role in drama and encouraging a fresh examination of its function and experimentation during the early nineteenth century.
Focusing on the Romantic period, this book explores the transformative shifts in drama and their impact on theatre performance, acting styles, and audience engagement. It delves into how these radical changes redefined the theatrical landscape, influencing both the creators and spectators of the time.
Inhaltsverzeichnisi-iv -- Foreword -- Contents -- Aesthetic Illusion -- Illusion and the Cognitive Sciences -- The Illusion of ‘Illusion’ -- Synaesthesia: Perception and Metaphor -- The Aesthetics of Communication and the Reproduction of Cultural Forms: The Case of Tourist Art -- Aesthetics and the Referentiality of Symbols and Signs -- Looking at Animals Looking: Art, Illusion, and Power -- Aesthetic and Illusion of Daily Life -- Fiction: On the Fate of a Concept Between Philosophy and Literary Theory -- Aesthetic Illusion in the Eighteenth Century -- The Grotesque: Illusion vs. Delusion -- Illusion and Imagination: Derrida’s Parergon and Coleridge’s Aid to Reflection. Revisionary readings of Kantian formalist aesthetics -- “Fantastic” Images: From Unenlightening to Enlightening “Appearances” Meant to Be Seen in the Dark -- Illusion and Literary Genre -- Representation in Words and in Drama: The Illusion of the Natural Sign -- Making and Breaking Dramatic Illusion -- Comic Illusion and Illusion in Comedy: The Discourse of Emotional Freedom -- Appearance in Poetry: Lyric Illusion? -- Epistolary Fiction and Its Impact on Readers: Reality and Illusion -- Illusion and Narrative Technique: The Nineteenth-Century Historical Novel Between Truth and Fiction -- Illusion and Breaking Illusion in Twentieth-Century Fiction -- Historical Changes in the Literary Uses of Illusions -- “And Mock Our Eyes with Air”: Air and Stage Illusion in Shakespearean Drama -- Double Plotting in Shakespeare’s Comedies: The Case of Twelfth Night -- Illusion and Spiritual Perception in Donne’s Poetry -- Imagination and Illusion in English Romanticism -- “The Picture of the Mind”: Eidetic Images and Pictorial Projection in Wordsworth -- ‘Verfremdung’ and Illusion in Brecht’s Drama -- Sam Shepard, Anti-Illusion, and Metadrama: Plays on Writing, Acting, and Character -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Index -- 479-482
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prelude in the Academy -- I. Goethe’s Farbenlehre: The Newtonian Controversy -- II. Goethe’s Entoptische Farben: The Problem of Polarity -- III. Goethe’s Homunculus: The Mediation of Light -- IV. Novalis: Transcendental Physics and the Sidereal Man -- V. Achim von Arnim: The Galvanic Eye -- VI. Wordsworth: An Auxiliar Light -- VIII. Coleridge and Jean Paul: The Look of Limbo -- VIII. Coleridge and Schlegel: The Glittering Eye -- IX. Shelley: The “Traces” of Faust -- Bibliography -- Index -- 309-310