Figuralizing the Oriental, literalizing the Jew: on the attempted assimilation of letter to spirit in Friedrich Schlegel's 'Uber die Sprache und Weiheit der Indier.'

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Friedrich Schlegel's treatise, 'On Indian Language and Wisdom,' celebrates while seeking to assimilate ancient Indian culture as a supplementary source for Hebrew influences in shaping the Christian West. Schlegel viewed Indian philosophy as the oldest human attempt to bring together material and spiritual principles, which finds its greatest expression in Catholicism. Schiller's text describes the superiority of philosophical spirit over the material aspects of language.

Influence, Philosophy, Indian, Indian philosophy, On Indian Language and Wisdom (Book), Philosophy, Jewish, Jewish philosophy, Schlegel, Friedrich von

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Unity and imagined community: F.C. Delius's 'Die Birnen von Ribbeck' and 'Der Sonntag, an dem ich Weltmeister wurde.'(German author Friedrich Christian Delius)

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West German author F.C. Delius explores questions of national identity, community, history, and nostalgia in his two books, 'Die Birnen von Ribbeck' and 'Der Sonntag, an dem ich Weltmeister wurde.' 'Die Birnen von Ribbeck' considers the German reunification while 'Der Sonntag' focuses on Germany's 1954 World Cup soccer victory. Both works analyse the concept of imagined community and selective memory in aspects of national identity and history.

Social aspects, Literature, Group identity, Social identity, German reunification question (1949-1990), Die Birnen von Ribbeck (Book), Der Sonntag, an dem ich Weltmeister wurde (Book), Delius, Friedrich Christian

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"A nothing, if it could be thought:" shadows of Diotima in Susette Gontard's letters to Friedrich Holderlin

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Susette Gontard's letters to Friedrich Holderlin have solidified for many critics her position as the poet's Muse and embodiment of his idealized feminine subject Diotima, since their release in the early twentieth century. In the process, the contents of Gontard's letters are continually overshadowed by the sensational events they recount.

Germany, Poets, Gontard, Susette

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