The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol

by Nicholas Halmi

Despite its widely acknowledged importance in and beyond the thought of the Romantic period, the distinctive concept of the symbol articulated by such writers as Goethe and F. W. J. Schelling in Germany and S. T. Coleridge in England has defied adequate historical explanation. In contrast to previous scholarship, Nicholas Halmi's study provides such an explanation by relating the content of Romantic symbolist theory - often criticized as irrationalist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199212414
• ISBN13: 9780199212415
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"