A Study Of German Romantic Spirit Through The Perspective Of Friedrich Schlegel's Literary Theory

A Study of German Romantic Spirit Through the Perspective of Friedrich Schlegel's Literary TheoryThis thesis tries to hackle Schlegel's theoretical thought of Literature and Art in various ways, such as Poetry, theory of novel, Mythology and Literary Criticism, and expects finding the spirit of German romanticism and the effects both in literary creation and people's daily life.This thesis includes four chapters.Chapter one The Poetry Theory of Schlegel1.The Origin Poetry Theory of Schlegel.The study of Greek poems, were spiritual origin of theory of romanticism he created in later days. He said that modern poems as expression arts expressed ideals and pursued the infinity. This kind of idealism poems was called didactic poems, whose power was from unseen depth, with specific character, expressing the philosophy. This result can also been considered as the beginning of theory of romanticism.2.The Research of Romanticism poems.Romanticism poems, was described with poetic exaggeration and imagination by Schlegel, songs of poet full of inspiration and enthusiasm, not a rigid academic definition. This result was not a personal comment of poets, but with deep reason.Chapter two The Discussion on The Core and The Transformation of Poetry by Schlegel1. The Discussion on The Core of Poetry by Schlegel—The Mythology Theory. Modern poems, lack of myth, such a tough core in ancient times, so the modern poems is not as excellent as the ancient poems. It is an urgent task to create a new myth for us. New myth, not only a hotbed, but also the spirit of works, will accept this glorious mission in the idealism way. Furthermore, not only arts, science also need the myth natural view.2. The Discussion on The Transformation of Poetry by Schlegel—The Novel Theory.The essence of Schlegel's novel was a transformation of romanticism poems. This kind of novel, good at clever and humour, was not truly art, but just natural poems. It is romantic to describe the sorrow materials in imaginary way, also with holy anima and infinity essence. The core of romantic poems was Shakespeare. There were a few differences between novels and dramas. And it was a mixture of narrate, singing and other forms. Schlegel's novels used multiple art ways, against crude framework.Chapter three Schlegel's Practice of Literary Criticism1.The Remark of The different periods of poems. Greece, as the origin of Europe, started the blending between poems and philosophy. Then, pomes were just a moral judgment, not art in the era of Roman. In the transitional periods to the new times, there were three great poets Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca and Giovanni Boccàccio in Italy. Later years, Cervantes and Shakespeare were truly representatives of romantic poems. The history of poems is an excellent school, and great poets in every period were the teacher of it. This is the purpose of this thesis.2.The Remark of Goethe's works.Goethe's works were the example of romantic literature. Schlegel adored and analyzes them carefully. The whole creation life of Goethe, started in all his passion in early age, and then mingled with the advances of early sophists in his marrow stage. Faust and William Meister made him one of the greatest writers in the history of Europe, as Dante Alighieri and Shakespeare. Finally, he went to eternal step by step.Chapter four The Influnce and The Remark of Friedrich Schlegel's Literary Theory1.The Influnce of Friedrich Schlegel's Literary Theory .Many fairy tales, written by romanticism writers, were instructed by the thought of myth. And Hoffmann's works were influenced mostly by such thought in the area of literature.2.The Remark of Friedrich Schlegel's Literary Theory.The significance of Romanticism poems, focused on aesthetic transformation to the enlightenment modernity. Hoping for the poems, it wasn't a literary genre, but ontology based, with the significance of ontology. It also reached the height of comprehension, grasped the eternal, endowed the salvation from poems, gapped the contradictions in various types of poems and made them unity. At last, the poets became heroes.