Bards, Ballads, and Barbarians in Jena. Germanic Medievalism in the Early Works of Friedrich Schlegel
The early German romantics were highly interested in medieval literature, primarily poetry written in romance vernaculars such as Dante’s Inferno. Only later did the German romantics turn to northern medieval literature for inspiration. In the case of German romantic Friedrich Schlege...
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| description | The early German romantics were highly interested in medieval literature, primarily poetry
written in romance vernaculars such as Dante’s Inferno. Only later did the German romantics
turn to northern medieval literature for inspiration. In the case of German romantic
Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829), the usual opinion is that he would not have cared for
northern (primarily Scandinavian) medieval literature and art before his late phase, beginning
around 1802. In this phase, his literary criticism stood under the sway of his conservative
politics. This article examines the reception of Germanic medieval literature in
Schlegel’s early essays, reviews and fragments, in order to discuss the role of Germanic
medieval literature in his work and the extent to which it is connected with his poetics and
politics. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3b71defe0464456491901c835e0017d52022-12-22T02:41:57ZengVandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KGRomantik2245-599X2246-29452018-12-0181133410.14220/jsor.2019.8.1.13Bards, Ballads, and Barbarians in Jena. Germanic Medievalism in the Early Works of Friedrich SchlegelAndreas Hjort Møller0School of Communication and Culture – Comparative LiteratureThe early German romantics were highly interested in medieval literature, primarily poetry written in romance vernaculars such as Dante’s Inferno. Only later did the German romantics turn to northern medieval literature for inspiration. In the case of German romantic Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829), the usual opinion is that he would not have cared for northern (primarily Scandinavian) medieval literature and art before his late phase, beginning around 1802. In this phase, his literary criticism stood under the sway of his conservative politics. This article examines the reception of Germanic medieval literature in Schlegel’s early essays, reviews and fragments, in order to discuss the role of Germanic medieval literature in his work and the extent to which it is connected with his poetics and politics.https://vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.14220/jsor.2019.8.1.13friedrich schlegelmedievalismromanticismgermanic and romance medieval literatureantiquarianism |
| spellingShingle | Andreas Hjort Møller Bards, Ballads, and Barbarians in Jena. Germanic Medievalism in the Early Works of Friedrich Schlegel Romantik friedrich schlegel medievalism romanticism germanic and romance medieval literature antiquarianism |
| title | Bards, Ballads, and Barbarians in Jena. Germanic Medievalism
in the Early Works of Friedrich Schlegel |
| title_full | Bards, Ballads, and Barbarians in Jena. Germanic Medievalism
in the Early Works of Friedrich Schlegel |
| title_fullStr | Bards, Ballads, and Barbarians in Jena. Germanic Medievalism
in the Early Works of Friedrich Schlegel |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bards, Ballads, and Barbarians in Jena. Germanic Medievalism
in the Early Works of Friedrich Schlegel |
| title_short | Bards, Ballads, and Barbarians in Jena. Germanic Medievalism
in the Early Works of Friedrich Schlegel |
| title_sort | bards ballads and barbarians in jena germanic medievalism in the early works of friedrich schlegel |
| topic | friedrich schlegel medievalism romanticism germanic and romance medieval literature antiquarianism |
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