The Relation Between Poetry and Philosophy: Novalis’ Hymns as an Illustration
Keywords:
Novalis, romanticizing, self-consciousness, theory of poetry in early German RomanticismAbstract
George Steiner’s criticism of the triumph of the “secondary” over the “primary” shows that the relationship between poetry and theory becomes problematic whenever dialogue is replaced by hierarchy. The very structure of modern subjectivity is jeopardized whenever the relation between poetry and theory becomes hierarchical or when theory tries to capture the literary text in its entirety. Focusing on Novalis’ poetic and philosophic opus, this paper asserts that literary criticism should be aware of hierarchical structures in the methods it uses, and should transform the hierarchical relation between poetry and theory into a dialogic relation.References
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