Article: Heinrich Heine und die Romantick. Ertrage eines Symposiums an der Pennsylvania State University.(Review)

Heinrich Heine und die Romantik. Ertrage eines Symposiums an der Pennsylvania State University (21.-23. September 1995). Ed. by MARKUS WINKLER. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 1997. xii + 232 pp. DM 86.

As the papers from the Pennsylvania symposium confirm, Heine's relation to Romanticism is characteristically tangled. The early essay 'Die Romantik' (1820), written under the influence of August Wilhelm Schlegel, celebrates Romanticism as lyrical inwardness derived from medieval Christianity. As an increasingly self-aware Jew, however, Heine found himself without a place in this historical development. One response (described here by Robert Holub) was to devise a Jewish ...

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