Frank Bruno WildSuizidäre Metaphern
Transzendente Melancholien im Zeitalter der Schwarzen Romantik
2. erweiterte Auflage
POETICA – Schriften zur Literaturwissenschaft, volume 152
Hamburg 2018, 314 pages
ISBN 978-3-8300-9871-3 (print) |ISBN 978-3-339-09871-9 (eBook)
Rezension
If one follows the reflections of the cultural scientist Frank Bruno Wild, it is ultimately the experience of nothingness that has been increasingly thematised in art since the beginning of the 19th century and is processed in literature in a work such as Pushkin‘s The Blizzard: »What is life but an imperfection bursting forth from infinity, falling back into infinity, already foaming away into nothingness, from which one briefly rises and then vanishes again? Whoever expects a solution to these realities has already failed, for nothingness does not know or think itself through; it only spits us out to create facts waiting for incompetent interpreters.«1 In contrast to the willless nothingness, however, artistic activity is precisely the expression of a will that rebels against the nihilistic impositions to which we are exposed.
About this book deutschenglish
Dark Romanticism is generally understood as sub-movement of typical Romanticism, which is spanned between the years of 1800 and 1830/50. This term is linked to shockers, the undead, evil characters, mythical worlds of dream and nightmare, even to vampires and mythical creatures.
Agents of the plot narrate their motives differentiated and keen-witted, by expressing melancholic, depressing, vengeful, and suicidal thoughts. Human insanity and misery, symbols of the grave, impressions of suicide and everlastingness were incorporated into literature through the alliance of ´graveyard poetry` and ´gothic novel`. Responsible for this process are Edward Young and Mary Shelley, the poetry of Hölderlin and Novalis, the literature of E.T.A. Hoffmann and E.A. Poe.
In any case the soul, the mystery, and the torn nature of men are regarded as influential, displayed in suicidal metaphors. This point of view induces us to Dark Romanticism as the real Romanticism and gives it a more important role than before. Because main characters of Romanticism are, at the same time, characters of Dark Romanticism, more precisely: melancholics of transcendence, whose central ideas are promoted to the quintessence of romantic passion. The deep disparate ego of men, wishing not being any longer part of reality by creating a mythical poetic netherworld and the longing for a special feeling of endlessness, disproving one´s own finitude, is shining through main elements of romantic experience. Therefore, Dark Romanticism is to be considered the universal poetry of gloom.
Keywords
Agonale MelancholieColeridgeDisparate SubjetkivitätE.T.A. HoffmannEdgar Allan PoeEdward YoungFinale MelancholieFreitodFriedrich HölderlinLiteraturgeschichteLiteraturwissenschaftMary ShelleyNatrutranszendenzNovalisRainer Maria RilkeRaskolnikowSchwarze RomantikSelbstmordSuizidSuizidäre MetaphernIhr Werk im Verlag Dr. Kovač
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