Building a National Literature

The Case of Germany, 1830–1870

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European, German, Nonfiction, History, Germany
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Author: Peter Uwe Hohendahl ISBN: 9781501705465
Publisher: Cornell University Press Publication: November 1, 2016
Imprint: Cornell University Press Language: English
Author: Peter Uwe Hohendahl
ISBN: 9781501705465
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication: November 1, 2016
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Language: English

Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine the canonical status of writers and works. He examines important elements in the making of a national literature, including the political and literary public sphere, the theory and practice of literary criticism, and the emergence of academic criticism as literary history. Hohendahl considers such key aspects of the process in Germany as the rise of liberalism and nationalism, the delineation of the borders of German literature, the idea of its history, the understanding of its cultural function, and the notion of a canon of major and minor authors.

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Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine the canonical status of writers and works. He examines important elements in the making of a national literature, including the political and literary public sphere, the theory and practice of literary criticism, and the emergence of academic criticism as literary history. Hohendahl considers such key aspects of the process in Germany as the rise of liberalism and nationalism, the delineation of the borders of German literature, the idea of its history, the understanding of its cultural function, and the notion of a canon of major and minor authors.

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