Science, Satire, and Wit: The Essays of Georg Christoph LichtenbergP. Lang, 1990 - 303 pages This book attempts a critical assessment of the eighteenth-century German essay utilizing the journal essays of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg as a paradigm. It places a socio-historical and genre-theoretical analysis of the eighteenth-century German essay across a close reading of Lichtenberg's essays. The study demonstrates that Lichtenberg's essays operate as critical communication for purposes of instruction and satire. What is more, such critical communication alternates with a critique of enlightenment itself. Finally, the methodology of Lichtenberg's essays is shown to be instrumental in developing imaginative and freely-associative literary strategies. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 2 | 19 |
Sociology of the Essay | 27 |
27 | 66 |
Chapter 3 | 83 |
Chapter 4 | 133 |
Chapter 6 | 248 |
Chapter 7 | 259 |
Chapter 13 | 271 |
Chapter 16 | 282 |
Index | 301 |
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