PRETEXTS FOR WRITING

Informationen zum Autor Williams, Seán M Klappentext Weaving in authors from Antiquity to Agamben, Williams shows how European - and, above all, German - Romanticism was a watershed in the history of the preface. The playful, paradoxical strategies that Romantic writers invented are later played out in continental philosophy, and in post-Structuralist literature. Zusammenfassung In this incisive, original book, Seán Williams reads prefaces to German literature and philosophy around 1800 as pretexts for writing, examining three of the most remarkable preface-writers of that eraGoethe, Jean Paul, and Hegelin the contexts not only of German, but also European print culture, thought, and literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations ... v A Note on Translations... vi Introduction: What Prefaces Are Not: Pedantic Notes ... 1 Historical Context and Precedent Paratextual Theory and Textual Autonomy Rhetorical Caesura: Comprehending Romanticism Writing to Write 1 Goethe: A Playful and Resistive Set of Preface Strategies ... 66 Zero Prefaces Ambiguous Prefaces Poetic Prefaces Embedded Prefaces Belated Prefaces A Hypertrophic Preface 2 Jean Paul: Autoprefacing ... 144 Baroque Beginnings: The Preface as Brow, Morsel, and Porch Reviewers and Readers Writers and Preface-Writers Prefatory Procrastination and Textual Foreplay The Logic of Length; Or, Digressive Fragmentation Countering Captatio Benevolentiae? Beyond Eloquence Conclusion: Preface to Prefatorial Philosophy (and Theory) 3 Hegel: Prefatorial Polemic Becomes Philosophy ... 237 Starting with Sterne? Literature and Philosophy around 1800 Descriptive Induction versus Performative Prefacing A New Style of Preface Sublation of Conventional Prefatory Content A Superior Preface Philosophical and Rhetorical Preface Paradigms Post-Structuralist Postscript Conclusion... 311Acknowledgements ... 328Bibliography ... 330Index ... 371About the Author ... 372...

Autorentext
Seán M. Williams is a lecturer in German and European cultural history in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sheffield, UK, following an appointment as Vice-Chancellor's Fellow. He was previously lecturer ("wissenschaftlicher Assistent") in German and comparative literature at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He has publishedon German literature and philosophy around 1800, in comparative contexts.

Klappentext
Weaving in authors from Antiquity to Agamben, Williams shows how European - and, above all, German - Romanticism was a watershed in the history of the preface. The playful, paradoxical strategies that Romantic writers invented are later played out in continental philosophy, and in post-Structuralist literature.

Zusammenfassung
In this incisive, original book, Seán Williams reads prefaces to German literature and philosophy around 1800 as pretexts for writing, examining three of the most remarkable preface-writers of that eraGoethe, Jean Paul, and Hegelin the contexts not only of German, but also European print culture, thought, and literature.

Inhalt
 
     Abbreviations ... v
     A Note on Translations... vi
Introduction: What Prefaces Are Not: Pedantic Notes ... 1
     Historical Context and Precedent
     Paratextual Theory and Textual Autonomy
     Rhetorical Caesura: Comprehending Romanticism
     Writing to Write
1 Goethe: A Playful and Resistive Set of Preface Strategies ... 66
     Zero Prefaces
     Ambiguous Prefaces
     Poetic Prefaces
     Embedded Prefaces
     Belated Prefaces
     A Hypertrophic Preface
2 Jean Paul: Autoprefacing ... 144
     Baroque Beginnings: The Preface as Brow, Morsel, and Porch
     Reviewers and Readers
     Writers and Preface-Writers
     Prefatory Procrastination and Textual Foreplay
     The Logic of Length; Or, Digressive Fragmentation
     Countering Captatio Benevolentiae? Beyond Eloquence
     Conclusion: Preface to Prefatorial Philosophy (and Theory)
3 Hegel: Prefatorial Polemic Becomes Philosophy ... 237
     Starting with Sterne? Literature and Philosophy around 1800
     Descriptive Induction versus Performative Prefacing
     A New Style of Preface
     Sublation of Conventional Prefatory Content
     A Superior Preface
     Philosophical and Rhetorical Preface Paradigms
     Post-Structuralist Postscript
Conclusion... 311
Acknowledgements ... 328
Bibliography ... 330
Index ... 371
About the Author ... 372

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