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1 online resource (341 pages) |
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New Studies in the Age of Goethe |
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New studies in the age of Goethe.
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Cover -- Series Page -- Series Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Play in the Age of Goethe and Today / Edgar Landgraf and Elliott Schreiber -- Part I: Free Play -- Chapter One. Beauty and Erotic Play: Anacreontic Poetry's Transformation of Aesthetic Philosophy / Christian P. Weber -- Chapter Two. Free Play in German Idealism and Poststructuralism / Samuel Heidepriem -- Part II: Games of Chance -- Chapter Three. "Mit dem Spiele spielen": Lessing's Play for Tolerance / Edgar Landgraf -- Chapter Four. Play with Memory and Its Topoi: Faust / Nicholas Rennie |
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Part III: Children's Play -- Chapter Five. Narcissus at Play: Goethe, Piaget, and the Passage from Egocentric to Social Play / Elliott Schreiber -- Chapter Six. Playthings: Goethe's Favorite Toys / Patricia Anne Simpson -- Chapter Seven. Kindergarten and the Pedagogy of Play in the German Educational Revolution / Ian F. McNeely -- Interlude -- Chapter Eight. Invective, Eulogy, Play: Jacobi's Sock 1799 / Christiane Frey -- Part IV. The Play of Language -- Chapter Nine. Between Speaking and Listening: Jean Paul's Wordplay / Michael Powers |
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Chapter Ten. Authorship, Translation, Play: Schleiermacher's Metalangual Poetics / David Martyn -- Chapter Eleven. Playing with Words in Early German Romanticism / Brian Tucker -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
We are inundated with game play today. Digital devices offer opportunities to play almost anywhere and anytime. No matter our age, gender, social, cultural, or educational background--we play. Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800 is the first book-length work to explore how the modern discourse of play was first shaped during this pivotal period (approximately 1770-1830). The eleven chapters illuminate critical developments in the philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, politics, and poetics of play as evident in the work of major authors of the period including Lessing, Goethe, Kant, Schiller, Pestalozzi, Jacobi, Tieck, Jean Paul, Schleiermacher, and Fröbel. While drawing on more recent theories of play by thinkers such as Jean Piaget, Donald Winnicott, Jost Trier, Gregory Bateson, Jacques Derrida, Thomas Henricks, and Patrick Jagoda, the volume shows the debates around play in German letters of this period to be far richer and more complex than previously thought, as well as more relevant for our current engagement with play. Indeed, modern debates about what constitutes good rather than bad practices of play can be traced to these foundational discourses. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press |
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Description based on print version record |
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Play -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 18th century
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Play -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 19th century
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Play -- Social aspects -- History -- 18th century
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Play -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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Play -- Psychological aspects
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Play -- Social aspects
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Landgraf, Edgar, 1967-
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Schreiber, Elliott, 1969-
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Weber, Christian P.
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Heidepriem, Samuel
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Rennie, Nicholas
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Simpson, Patricia Anne
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McNeely, Ian F
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Powers, Michael
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Martyn, David
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Tucker, Brian
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| ISBN |
1684482100 |
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9781684482108 |
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