Connecting Ancient And Modern: The Medieval Plot About The Fox And The Discussion Between Goethe And Schiller About German Epic Poetry

Anait Mikaelyan ()
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Abstract: The article presents an attempt to examine Goethe's poem "Reineke Fox" in connection with the discussion between Goethe and Schiller about the nature of epic poetry and the principles of its renewal within the poetics of "Weimar Classicism". Goethe's innovations in interpreting the medieval plot of the Fox, corresponding to the principles of construction of ancient epic poems due to the fame of the plot, the balance of retardations and predictions and the renewal of the German hexameter, etc., will be discussed in the correspondence between Goethe and Schiller. It substantiates the principles of constructing the German epic with the tasks of forming a new literature.

Keywords: medieval epic; Weimar Classicism; Goethe and Schiller's theory of epic poetry; "Reineke Fox"; hexameter. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2024
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Published in WP BRP Series: Literary Studies / LS, December 2024, pages 1-19

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