Schlegel, August Wilhelm von - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Behler, Ernst. “The Reception of Calderón among the German Romantics.” Studies in Romanticism 67, no. 4 (winter 1981): 437-60.

Includes discussion of Schlegel's translations of three plays by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, as well as his critical appraisal of the Spanish dramatist's work.

———. “The Impact of Classical Antiquity on the Formation of the Romantic Literary Theory of the Schlegel Brothers.” In Classical Models in Literature, edited by Zoran Konstantinovic, pp. 139-43. Innsbruck: Verlag des Instituts für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 1981.

Centers on the groundbreaking formulation of aesthetic theory in terms of an opposition between Classicism and Romanticism undertaken by August Wilhelm and Friedrich Schlegel at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

———. “‘The Theory of Art is its own History’: Herder and the Schlegel...

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