{"product_id":"pretexts-for-writing-german-romantic-prefaces-literature-and-philosophy-hardback-9781684480531","title":"Pretexts for Writing; German Romantic Prefaces, Literature, and Philosophy (Hardback) 9781684480531","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePretexts for Writing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGerman Romantic Prefaces, Literature, and Philosophy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSeán M. Williams (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781684480531\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 March 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e278 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm, 0.029 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePretexts for Writing\u003c\/i\u003e discusses the history of the literary and philosophical self-authored preface in the German speaking world around 1800 with an intensity and analytical depth previously unachieved in scholarship.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Till Dembeck, University of Luxembourg\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Recommended.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Choice\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"a study of tremendous academic rigor with original insights. it shows deep knowledge of both eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature and philosophy and the many conversations in contemporary literary studies pertaining to them.it is an achievement in scholarship pertaining to the age of Goethe, romanticism, and literary studies at large.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— The German Quarterly\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"This debut book, in short, contains much that is scintillant and surely announces the arrival of an important new scholarly voice in \u003ci\u003eGermanistik\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Modern Language Review\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"This book is perceptive, timely, and ambitious: perceptive in that it zeroes in on serious gaps in research, the exploration of which may alter our views of eighteenth-century German literature.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Lessing Yearbook\/Jahrbuch XLVIII\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePretexts for Writing\u003c\/i\u003e is an insightful, original, and persuasive work—compelling pretexts for reading.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e— Goethe Yearbook\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Recommended.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Choice\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"This debut book, in short, contains much that is scintillant and surely announces the arrival of an important new scholarly voice in \u003ci\u003eGermanistik\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Modern Language Review\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePretexts for Writing\u003c\/i\u003e discusses the history of the literary and philosophical self-authored preface in the German speaking world around 1800 with an intensity and analytical depth previously unachieved in scholarship.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Till Dembeck, University of Luxembourg\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"a study of tremendous academic rigor with original insights. it shows deep knowledge of both eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature and philosophy and the many conversations in contemporary literary studies pertaining to them.it is an achievement in scholarship pertaining to the age of Goethe, romanticism, and literary studies at large.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— The German Quarterly\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"This book is perceptive, timely, and ambitious: perceptive in that it zeroes in on serious gaps in research, the exploration of which may alter our views of eighteenth-century German literature.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Lessing Yearbook\/Jahrbuch XLVIII\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePretexts for Writing\u003c\/i\u003e is an insightful, original, and persuasive work—compelling pretexts for reading.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e— Goethe Yearbook\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eAround 1800, print culture became a particularly rich source for metaphors about thinking as well as writing, nowhere more so than in the German tradition of \u003ci\u003eDichter und Denker\u003c\/i\u003e. Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel (among many others) used the \u003ci\u003epreface\u003c\/i\u003e in order to reflect on the problems of writing itself, and its interpretation. If Sterne teaches us that a material book enables mind games as much as it gives expression to them, the Germans made these games more theoretical still. Weaving in authors from Antiquity to Agamben, Williams shows how European–and, above all, German–Romanticism was a watershed in the history of the preface. The playful, paradoxical strategies that Romantic writers invented are later played out in continental philosophy, and in post-Structuralist literature. The preface is a prompt for playful thinking with texts, as much as it is conventionally the prosaic product of such an exercise.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/i\u003e ... v\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eA Note on Translations\u003c\/i\u003e... vi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: What Prefaces Are Not: Pedantic Notes ... 1\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eHistorical Context and Precedent\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eParatextual Theory and Textual Autonomy\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eRhetorical Caesura: Comprehending Romanticism\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eWriting to Write\u003cbr\u003e 1 Goethe: A Playful and Resistive Set of Preface Strategies ... 66\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eZero Prefaces\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eAmbiguous Prefaces\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003ePoetic Prefaces\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eEmbedded Prefaces\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBelated Prefaces\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eA Hypertrophic Preface\u003cbr\u003e 2 Jean Paul: Autoprefacing ... 144\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBaroque Beginnings: The Preface as Brow, Morsel, and Porch\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eReviewers and Readers\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eWriters and Preface-Writers\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003ePrefatory Procrastination and Textual Foreplay\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThe Logic of Length\u003cbr\u003e Or, Digressive Fragmentation\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eCountering \u003ci\u003eCaptatio Benevolentiae\u003c\/i\u003e? Beyond Eloquence\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Preface to Prefatorial Philosophy (and Theory)\u003cbr\u003e 3 Hegel: Prefatorial Polemic Becomes Philosophy ... 237\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eStarting with Sterne? Literature and Philosophy around 1800\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eDescriptive Induction versus Performative Prefacing\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eA New Style of Preface\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eSublation of Conventional Prefatory Content\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eA Superior Preface\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003ePhilosophical and Rhetorical Preface Paradigms\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003ePost-Structuralist Postscript\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion... 311\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e ... 328\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e ... 330\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e ... 371\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/i\u003e ... 372\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bucknell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52633820659992,"sku":"9781684480531","price":123.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/pretexts-for-writing-german-romantic-prefaces-literature-and-philosophy-hardback-9781684480531","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}