Athenaeum fragments
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The Athenaeum fragments are a collection of early Romantic aphoristic writings by Friedrich Schlegel that helped define the principles of German Romanticism and modern literary criticism.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| Athenaeum Fragments | 1 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
collection of aphorisms
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literary work ⓘ |
| aim |
to blur boundaries between philosophy and literature
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to define principles of Romantic poetry ⓘ to rethink the role of criticism ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Jena Romanticism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Friedrich Schlegel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
critique as a creative act
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fragment as a literary form ⓘ infinite becoming of art ⓘ irony ⓘ relationship between poetry and philosophy ⓘ romantic universal poetry ⓘ self-reflexivity of literature ⓘ |
| conceptElaborated |
progressive universal poetry
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romantic irony ⓘ |
| conceptIntroduced | romantic fragment ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| discipline |
aesthetics
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philosophy of art ⓘ poetics ⓘ |
| editorialContext | published in the journal edited by August Wilhelm Schlegel and Friedrich Schlegel ⓘ |
| firstPublicationPlace | Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form | short numbered fragments ⓘ |
| genre |
aphorism
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literary criticism ⓘ philosophical prose ⓘ |
| hasForm | open-ended series ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
foundational work of modern literary theory
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programmatic text of early German Romanticism ⓘ |
| influenced |
Romantic literary theory
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modern literary criticism ⓘ philosophy of literature ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Early Romanticism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| movement | German Romanticism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalAudience | intellectuals of the Jena Romantic circle ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | German Idealism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | 1798–1800 ⓘ |
| publishedIn | Athenaeum (journal) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Dialogue on Poetry
NERFINISHED
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Lucinde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
aphoristic
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paradoxical ⓘ self-referential ⓘ |
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subject surface form:
Friedrich Schlegel
this entity surface form:
Athenaeum Fragments