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    The Impatient Muse

    Germany and the Sturm und Drang

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    Author(s)
    Leidner, Alan C.
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    Far from being a forerunner of Weimar Classicism or an addendum to the Enlightenment, the Sturm und Drang is best seen as part of an autonomous culture of impatience—as literature in which Germans, frustrated with their fragmented land, simulated a sense of power and effectiveness that political realities did not afford. This impatience drove not only authors and the characters they created; it also drew in German audiences and readers ready to partake vicariously in national sentiments that they otherwise could not have experienced. Alan Leidner sees Lavater's work as a model for dealing with a limiting culture, Goethe's Werther as a subtly arrogant figure, the drama of the "Kraftmensch" as a literature legitimizing the violence of its protagonists, the famous split in the "Urfaust" as the result of Goethe's resistance to the impatience that led many writers to fabricate a German nation that did not exist, and Schiller's "Die Räuber" as a liberating ritual that allowed German audiences to enjoy temporary feelings of national community. He concludes his study with an analysis of J. M. R. Lenz, whose texts recoil unequivocally in the face of the impatient muse.
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39864
    Keywords
    German Studies; Literature
    DOI
    10.5149/9781469656731_Leidner
    Publisher
    University of North Carolina Press
    Publisher website
    https://uncpress.org/
    Publication date and place
    Chapel Hill, 1994
    Grantor
    • National Endowment for the Humanities - [grantnumber unknown] - Humanities Open Book Program
    • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - [grantnumber unknown] - Humanities Open Book Program
    Series
    UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures, 115
    Classification
    Literature: history and criticism
    Pages
    168
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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