Begriffsbilder. Studien zur literarischen Allegorie zwischen Opitz und Schiller (Conceptual Images. Studies on Literary Allegories of Opitz and Schiller)

Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1995. First edition. Softcover. Near fine condition. Large Octavo. ix, 682pp. Original white stiff glossy wraps with orange lettering and ruling on cover and spine. Vol. 131 of Studien zur deutschen Literature (Studies on German Literature. Publisher's device on title page, Conceptual Imagery
Conceptual Imagery.

Elaborate introduction on possibilities and restrictions regarding the treatment and usage of the allegory as literary medium. Lessing vehemently made the case against allegories due to its variant usage, citing the changing definition, usage and interpretation since Antiquity, awith most of the contemporary literary scholars on his side. The study treats the traditions of allegories during the Baroque, its preconditions, rhetoric, and emblematics, allegories in tragedies, and the crisis of the allegory around 1700 and in the 18th Century, its reconstitution and the development of terms in the exchange between Gottsched and Lessing. Contains a chapter on old forms of allegory and new intentions, and its role in nature poetry of the enlightenment, plus treats its revaluation at the end of the enlightenment with a chapter on metamorphoses of the allegory by Herder and Schiller.

Contains lists of acronyms and abbreviations, bibliographies of works and sources as well as research, and a register. Minor wear.