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The aim of this comparative study of Novalis' Heinrich von Ofterdingen , Holderlin's Hyperion, and Schlegel's Lucinde is to develop a comprehensive overview of the role of woman in conceptions of male subjectivity in Early German Romanticism. The reading of the novels developed here examines the Early Romantic poetics with a specific view to the conceptualizations of woman contained therein. The Early Romantic 'Project' consists in the rewriting of the subject and the world in the medium of poetry. Tanscendental poetry, the fragment, allegory, and irony are intended to invoke the presence of an absence, that is the absolute. In the concrete praxis in the novels, these concepts of Early Romantic poetics imply conceptualizations of woman. They articulate a specific approach in the encounter of the male subject with the female object. At the center of Romantic poetics lies the encounter with woman. The unique situatedness of the romantic subject is, indeed, crystallized in this encounter. / Early Romanticism is situated between Kant and Hegel. The post-Kantian subject experiences a crisis of legitimation. Lacking an unmediated access to the object, it is fragmented and threatened. Early Romanticism, however, also prefigures Hegel, inasmuch as the crisis does not consist in the loss of the object, but rather in the encounter of two subjects. The three novels are juxtaposed here because this position between the loss of the object and the crisis of the encounter with the other as subject leads to a paradoxical conceptualization of woman as an uncanny object of desire. In all three novels, the constitution of the male subject and the possibility of poetry depend on the encounter with woman. However, the possibility of woman emerging, indeed, as subject represents an extreme threat. As a consequence, the constitution of the male poetic subject requires the simultaneous assimilation of femininity and the shielding against woman. Hence, the three novels are love stories that narrate the death of woman. However, woman is fundamentally uncanny because even the presence of the dead woman represents a threat. The constitution of the male subject and novel unfolds, therefore, in three stages; the encounter with woman, the assimilation of femininity and death of woman, and the removal of any traces of that death.

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Summary in English / Romanticism as a broad movement of thought developed as a reaction against rationalism and empiricism in the period of Enlightenment. In his critical evaluation of Getman literature Eichendorff as a historian exammes the excessiveness of esoteric theories in the work of the young intellectuals of the early romantic period in Getmany. The romanticists' idealist celebration of the self, and their tendency to overestimate the power of the imagination and the supreme value of art led to self-adulation and subjectivism which was unacceptable to Eichendorff s understanding of art and religion. The "romantic" attempt at creating a new mythology usmg art as a new kind of religion and thereby making the poet an omnipotent creator could only be rejected by Eichendorff whose moral convictions were strongly based on Christian Catholic beliefs. The young romanticists replaced ethics with aesthetics. Eichendorffs judgement of this development is devastating. He describes the early romantic movement as a "premature abortion". / Classics and Modern European Languages / M.A. (German)

Das Forschungsgebiet der deutschen Literaturgeschichte verfügt heute - wie die meisten anderen Zweige der Wissenschaft - über ein leistungsfähiges Informationssystem. Dieses bestehende Netzwerk ist zugleich mit dem in den letzten einhundert Jahren konstituierten Fach entstanden und gewachsen; es spiegelt zu jedem Zeitpunkt seiner Entwicklung dessen Profil und die sich daraus ergebenden Bedürfnisse der Forschung wider. Die vorliegende Studie zeigt die frühesten Ansätze und Fortschritte auf dem Teilgebiet der (damals zeitgenössischen) Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts, von den Versuchen einzelner Schrittmacher auf und führt bis an den Zeitpunkt, wo an deren Stelle organisierte Gemeinschaftsunternehmungen treten, die sich den veränderten Erfordernissen anpassen. Im ersten Teil werden die Ergebnisse anthologischer Sammeltätigkeit, sofern sie auf geschichtlich-biographische Aspekte eingehen, vorgestellt. Teil 2 befaßt sich mit dem Ertrag, der sich von außerhalb der Literaturforschung betriebenen bibliographischen Arbeit (Buchhändlerkataloge, Aufnahmen von Privatbibliotheken) einstellt. Im Teil 3 wird die weiterführende Leistung alphabetisch geordneter Autorenlexika des Zeitraums entwickelt, während der letzte der ausführlichen und exakten Dokumentation dem Schaffen Karl Goedekes, von dessen ersten anthologischen Versuchen bis zum Entwurf und Programm seines "Grundrisses zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung", in dem die Literatur seiner eigenen Zeit auf Grund authentischer Auskünfte der Schriftsteller selbst dargestellt werden sollte, gewidmet ist. / The research on the field of German literary history has today at its disposal an efficient system for current and cumulative informations. This existing network is a result of the evolution in the scientific efforts during the past hundred years and is reflecting this branch´s height at any time. The study´s intention is to lay open the early advances and steps on the field of German 19th century literature from ist beginning by individual pioneers until the first organized information system in partnership. Part 1 represents the results of anthologies provided with biographical details about the authors, pt. 2 represents bibliographical indexes compiled for various aims, pt. 3 represents contemporary author dictionaries in chronological order. A last part contains programms of encyclopadies created by Karl Goedeke, from his antological experiments with his printed highlight "Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung". The productive elements of these four varieties are the fundament of the literary information continuations.

Summary in English / Romanticism as a broad movement of thought developed as a reaction against rationalism and empiricism in the period of Enlightenment. In his critical evaluation of Getman literature Eichendorff as a historian exammes the excessiveness of esoteric theories in the work of the young intellectuals of the early romantic period in Getmany. The romanticists' idealist celebration of the self, and their tendency to overestimate the power of the imagination and the supreme value of art led to self-adulation and subjectivism which was unacceptable to Eichendorff s understanding of art and religion. The "romantic" attempt at creating a new mythology usmg art as a new kind of religion and thereby making the poet an omnipotent creator could only be rejected by Eichendorff whose moral convictions were strongly based on Christian Catholic beliefs. The young romanticists replaced ethics with aesthetics. Eichendorffs judgement of this development is devastating. He describes the early romantic movement as a "premature abortion". / Classics and Modern European Languages / M.A. (German)