Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Amtstatter, Mark Emanuel

Titel

Beseelte Tone: Die Sprache des Korpers und der Dichtung in Klopstocks Eislaufoden

Auflage

Reprint 2011.

Ort / Verlag

De Gruyter

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Klopstock's mythological skating odes are an especially graphic instance of his role as a key poet in the literary revolution that took place in the 18th century. In their rhythmic complexion they reflect both contemporary tendencies, such as Jean Georges Noverre's theory of dance, and the reception accorded to the Old Saxon »Heliand« or the rhetorical traditions of antiquity. The semantics of rhythm advances to the status of the central element in the readability of the language of the moving body. With these odes Klopstock revolutionized the relationship between physical dynamics and poetic dynamics for generations to come.