Bibliography: leaves 436-449 / 449 leaves ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dept. of German, University of Adelaide, 1990

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-03-06Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:32:27Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 fadel_ncps_me_arafcl.pdf: 842900 bytes, checksum: bacafedf193c99eb51b853224a249984 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Por meio deste trabalho, procuramos identificar em uma das obras de Novalis, um dos autores mais significativos do assim chamado Primeiro Romantismo Alemão, os pressupostos de uma teoria da linguagem que se sustenta no Idealismo Alemão. O problema se delineia à medida que, para Novalis, contemporâneo do estabelecimento dos das bases da lingüística moderna, e, ele próprio, estudioso de filologia, observar-se-ia no fenômeno da linguagem uma possível relação entre espírito e mundo, o que, por sua vez, se opõe ao conceito hoje clássico da arbitrariedade do signo. No âmbito deste projeto de pesquisa, optamos por delimitar a investigação a uma narrativa curta do poeta, prosador e crítico Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), intitulada Die Lehrlinge zu Saïs (1801). Considerada pela crítica como um fragmento de romance, a narrativa de Novalis em questão apresenta um elenco bastante rico no que se refere aos pressupostos de uma possível teoria da linguagem de caráter simbólico-poético e messiânico. Assim sendo, a abordagem a Os Discípulos em Saïs terá como perspectiva a possível identificação, no texto literário, de características desta filosofia ou teoria romântica da linguagem, manifestada em alguns fragmentos do próprio Novalis e de seu contemporâneo Friedrich Schlegel. / The intention of this research is to identify the characteristics of a language theory, which has its basis on German Idealism, in one of Novalis, fragmentary novels Die Lehrlinge zu Sais. For Novalis, contemporary of the establishment of modern linguistics, and himself researcher on philology, one would observe in language phenomena a possible relation between spirit and world, which would be directly opposed to today's classic concept of sign's arbitrariness. For research purposes, we chose to limit our investigation to a short narrative written by the poet, novelist and critic Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) entitled Die Lehrlinge zu Sais (1801). Considered by the critics to be a fragmentary novel, Novalis' narrative presents a great number of elements concerning of a symbolic- poetic language theory. Thus, the approach to Die Lehrling zu Sais will have as it's main perspective the possible identification of characteristics of this romantic philosophy or theory, exposed in some fragments written by Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel.

La peinture de Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), connue pour être une peinture« métaphysique », ayant une forte charge symbolique, donne lieu à toutes sortes déconstructions idéologiques. Notre travail propose une réflexion, au travers de cet art et de ses interprétations, sur la notion même de « romantisme ». Il s’agit de montrer qu’un examen précis de la représentation que le romantisme allemand a de lui-même offre des possibilités herméneutiques encore en partie inédites pour qui veut comprendre Friedrich en tant que peintre romantique allemand. C’est ce que nous avons tâché de faire apparaître dans une approche philosophique qui associe présence au tableau comme objet capable de produire lui-même son sens, inscription dans le contexte des pensées contemporaines de cet art, et examen des résonances de ce romantisme dans l’art d’aujourd’hui. Recentrant l’interprétation du romantisme allemand sur la pensée de Novalis, nous avons pris pour fil conducteur la formulation du programme explicite de ce que lui-même dénomme la« philosophie romantique » dans un fragment célèbre (« Le monde doit être romantisé.C’est ainsi que l’on retrouvera le sens originel ») et qui fait du romantisme un concept opératoire, une opération ou technique — un « art de ». L’enjeu de cette thèse est de clarifier ainsi le sens philosophique de l’exigence romantique allemande, à entendre comme un idéal esthétique, donc comme un concept normatif, tout en cherchant à explorer dans la philosophie romantique de l’art le thème à nos yeux négligé de la peinture comme art visuel. A ce titre, elle n’est pas une monographie sur Friedrich, elle interroge, par son prisme, la philosophie romantique. / The painting of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), known for being ‘metaphysical’ andstrongly charged with symbolism, has given rise to all sorts of ideological constructions.Based on this art and its manifold interpretations our study reflects on the very notion of‘romanticism’. It seeks to demonstrate that a precise examination of the representation that romanticism has of itself offers hermeneutic possibilities that still remain partially unexplored for anyone wishing to understand Friedrich as a German romantic painter. Our philosophical approach endeavours to pay close attention to the paintings as objects capable of producing their own meaning, as well as situating this art in the context of contemporary ideas and conceptions, and analyzing the resonances of this romanticism inthe art of today. Re-focusing the interpretation of German romanticism onto the thought of Novalis we have adopted as a guiding thought the formulation of a programme that explicitly terms itself “romantic philosophy” in a celebrated fragment (“The world must be romanticized. In this way one finds again its original meaning”), and which renders romanticism an operational concept, an operation, technique or method – an “art of”.Thus, the aim of this thesis is to clarify the philosophical sense of the romantic imperative,understood as an aesthetic ideal, i.e. as a normative concept, while seeking to explore inthe romantic philosophy of art the hit her to neglected topic of painting as a visual art.Accordingly, this work is not a monograph on Friedrich. Rather, through the prism of his art it questions the status and nature of romantic philosophy itself.

As Written presents an investigation of selected literary configurations of musical ineffability in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By putting literary parables into constellation with media technologies and texts from philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, and media theory, the dissertation seeks to better understand the ways in which literature engages, discloses, disrupts, and determines musical discourse at times of aesthetic, political, and technological shift. The dissertation begins by establishing the “cryptographic” ineffable that emerges in early German Romanticism through readings of Novalis. These readings suggest this formulation of ineffability to arise out of an instrumentalization of instrumental music that emphasizes the symbolic relations of musical notation over music’s sound—this in service of a literary and philosophical project that strives to transcend its own medial and epistemological limits. Subsequent chapters will analyze alternative configurations of ineffability in writings by Richard Wagner, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Mann, and Helmut Lachenmann, but vestiges of this “originary” Romantic configuration will remain. Indeed, while the literary texts analyzed in these later chapters will respond to the medial, technical, and technological developments of their historical contexts, more than merely disclosing discursive formulations of musical ineffability, they, like Novalis’ Heinrich von Ofterdingen, will be shown to enact these formulations in forms of linguistic, sonic, and material absence through their complex narratologies and poetologies. How, this dissertation will ask, might literature’s ability to accommodate changing contexts in these configurations ultimately suggest musical ineffability as a conduit through which a music-discursive tradition that emerges in literature around 1800 is able to preserve itself into the twentieth century?

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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