James Joyce and German Theory: "The Romantic School and All That"Barbara Laman
About the Author:
Barbara Laman was born in Austria, but left there in 1964 to seek her fortune in London as a nanny. She married and lived in Jamaica, where her three children were born. In 1978, she moved to Florida where she began her formal studies in English. She worked as a reporter for a daily paper in South Florida before completing her Ph.D. in English at the University of Miami. In 1992, she accepted a position at Dickinson State University in North Dakota, where she is a Professor of English who teaches writing courses and romantic, eighteenth-century, and modern literature, as well as critical theory and film. She is a competitive bridge player and loves to travel across the country to participate in tournaments. She lives in Dickinson with her husband, David Solheim, her grandson, Bryan Blanco, and two cats.
This book investigates the extent to which Joyce's theories as well as his practice, beginning with his critical writings and Stephen Hero, are indebted to early German Romanticism. The allusions, affinities, and analogies, as well as differential relationships between the Joycean oeuvre and texts of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Schlegel, and Novalis are often palpable in most of his works, including Finnegans Wake. The book offers background to early German theories, especially the differences between the Sturm and Drang movement of the 1770s, and the Classicism and Romanticism of the 1790s. The most important texts for this study are Schlegel's "Über das Studium der griechischen Poesie" ["About the Study of Greek Poetry"] and "Schiller's "Über naive und sentimentalische Dichtung" ["Naive and Sentimental Poetry"]. Joyce's "dramatical" poet, who stands behind his work like the deity behind the universe, finds an articulation in Schiller a good 100 years before the one generally attributed to Flaubert. Joyce's deletion of the word "epiphany" between the writing of Stephen Hero and that of Portrait suggests a rejection on Joyce's part of Romantic ideas, yet he appropriates these ideas and concepts and makes them his own in various shapes.ISBN 0-8386-4029-X, Price $39.50
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