Article: Ungastliche Gaben: Die 'Xenien' Goethes and Schillers and ihre literarische Rezeption von 1796 bis in die Gegenwart.(Book review)

Ungastliche Gaben: Die 'Xenien' Goethes and Schillers and ihre literarische Rezeption von 1796 bis in die Gegenwart. By FRIEDER VON AMMON. (Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte, 123) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2005. ix+147 pp. 74 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-484-32123-6.

This informative study of the Xenien examines Goethe's and Schiller's aggressively provocative epigrammatic poems as an independent, innovative genre. It is in two parts. The first focuses on the immanent poetics, structural organization, and semantic implications of a genre established in the Musen-Almanch auf das Fahr 1797. The second probes a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts ...

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