Irony and the Logic of the Romantic Imagination

by Steven E. Alford

This study examines romantic irony as a principle of style in the work of Friedrich Schlegel and William Blake. The first half traces Schlegel's critique of the principles of identity and noncontradic- tion, his development of a romantic logic, his view of dialectic and rhetoric, and how romantic irony is a stylistic mirror of the results of his critique of formal logic. These findings are tested in a close reading of his essay ber die Unverst ndlichkeit...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820401102
• ISBN13: 9780820401102
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
• Length: 177 Pages