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Friedrich Hölderlin
Heinrich von Kleist
literary theory
media studies
mediation
medium
romanticism
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- ISBN 9780823288410
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jun 2020
- Publisher: Fordham University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Romanticism is often understood as an age of extremes, yet it also marks the birth of the modern medium in all senses of the word. Engaging with key texts of the romantic period, the book outlines a wide-reaching project to re-imagine the middle as a constitutive principle. Sng argues that Romanticism dislodges such terms as medium, moderation, and mediation from serving as mere self-evident tools that conduct from one pole to another. Instead, they offer a dwelling in and with the middle: an attention to intervals, interstices, and gaps that make these terms central to modern understandings of relation.
Zachary Sng, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Brown University, is the author of The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist (Stanford University Press, 2010). His areas of research include German and British aesthetics, the history of rhetoric, literary theory, and European romanticism.
