Ruminations on Ruins
Classical versus Romantic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20657396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Theodore Ziolkowski (Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 265-281 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The German Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8831 • E-ISSN: 1756-1183 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gequ.12000 |
| OpenAlex | W2518443353 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 4 |
Ruins evoke meditations, and none more than those of Rome. Not only historians from Gibbon to Toynbee have been inspired by those ruins. Writers of the German Classical period from Goethe to Schiller, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and A.W. Schlegel, not to mention Ludwig I of Bavaria or August von Platen, have reflected in their poems on the glory of that Roman past and its meaning for the present. The German Romantics, in contrast, shifted their gaze from antiquity to the Middle Ages and to such monuments as the castles of Heidelberg, Weibertreu, and Marienburg and the monastic ruins of Eldena and Sankt Wolfgang. Poets from Brentano and Chamisso to Eichendorff and Kerner regarded them not so much as cultural‐historical treasures for the cultivated few but, rather, as popular symbols of nationalistic pride and future unification. Classicists and Romantics alike sought to preserve those pasts through memory and art
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Classical period · German · Glory · Greeks · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Period (music) · Poetry · Pride · Romance · Romanticism · Theology · Classics · History · Literature and Cultural Memory · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |