The Revivifying Word

Book Review| March 01 2011 The Revivifying Word: Literature, Philosophy, and the Theory of Life in Europe's Romantic Age Koelb, ClaytonThe Revivifying Word: Literature, Philosophy, and the Theory of Life in Europe's Romantic Age. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2008. 220 pp. Cloth $75.00. Nicholas Rennie Nicholas Rennie Rutgers University Nicholas Rennie is an associate professor of German and an affiliate in comparative literature at Rutgers University. As a Humboldt Fellow, he has undertaken research at the Free University Berlin and the University of Munich, where he also taught. Author of Speculating on the Moment: The Poetics of Time and Recurrence in Goethe, Leopardi, and Nietzsche (2005), he has published articles on these writers as well as on Molière, Lessing, and Benjamin. His research focuses on literature of the Enlightenment and the age of Goethe, aesthetics and intellectual history from the eighteenth century to the present, and theories of drama. He is currently working on a book project entitled “Forbidding Images: Writing and the Visual in German Theory 1766–39.” Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2011) 48 (1): 109–111. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.48.1.0109 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Nicholas Rennie; The Revivifying Word: Literature, Philosophy, and the Theory of Life in Europe's Romantic Age. Comparative Literature Studies 1 March 2011; 48 (1): 109–111. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.48.1.0109 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressComparative Literature Studies Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2011 by The Pennsylvania State University. All rights reserved.2011The Pennsylvania State University Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content

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