From Jena to Nerval: ‘a romantic’ - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v34i1.10431

Authors

  • Fernando Machado Silva Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v34i1.10431

Keywords:

Romanticism, ethic-aesthetic, poetry, madness

Abstract

This brief introductory and critical essay, though focused on the French romantic poet Gérard de Nerval, has as principle and basic structure the questioning of Romanticism. Our main concern was to discuss the revolution proposed by the first romantics, the famous ‘school’ of Jena, thus analyzing theirs most important manifest, as well as certain poietic concepts regarded as decisive in its ethical, aesthetic and political project, such as the ‘new mythology’, the ‘sublime’, the ‘genius’ and the ‘symbol’. As a final thought we regard as an example the French poet as a living icon of the same concepts, we develop a reading that seeks an opening in the reader’s interpretation of his most famous work, The Chimeras.

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Author Biography

  • Fernando Machado Silva, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
    Licenciado em Estudos Teatrais e Mestre em Literaturas e Poéticas Comparadas pela Universidade de Évora, doutorando em Filosofia, variante Filosofia Contemporânea, bolseiro pela FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. nascido em 1979, Lisboa

Published

2011-12-21

Issue

Section

Literature

How to Cite

From Jena to Nerval: ‘a romantic’ - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v34i1.10431. (2011). Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 34(1), 37-48. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v34i1.10431

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