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Friedrich Schlegel's Turn to Romanticism

  • Journal of Humanities
  • 2024, (92), pp.089-114
  • DOI : 10.31310/HUM.092.04
  • Publisher : Institute for Humanities
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : January 22, 2024
  • Accepted : February 15, 2024
  • Published : February 28, 2024

Jung, dayoung 1

1전남대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to reveal the influence of Schiller on Schlegel's transition from neoclassicism to romanticism. Schlegel's Über das Studium der griechischen Poesie is an important work that confirms his Neoclassicism while also identifying the Romanticism inherent within him. Schiller's Über naive und Sentimentalische Dichtung, completed and published around the same time, also provides important clues to Schiller's influence on Schlegel. This paper revolves around two questions. First, how did Schiller influence Schlegel's transition from neoclassicism to romanticism? Second, if Schlegel became a romantic under Schiller's influence, why did Schiller remain a neoclassicist? What were the differences in their views of modern literature? Lovejoy views Schiller's paper as a major influence on Schlegel's conversion to Romanticism, while Beiser argues that Schiller's paper rather led him to defend neoclassicism, and that Schlegel's ‘critique of Fichte's philosophy’ played a key role in his conversion. This paper seeks to elucidate the differences between Schlegel and Schiller’s two papers by comparing and identifying Schiller's influence on Schlegel, and by comparing the key concepts of ‘das Sentimentalische’ and ‘das Interessante’ that they both characterize as aspects of modern poets or modern poetry.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.